Dufferin Mall
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| Coordinates | 43°39′21″N 79°26′08″W / 43.655965°N 79.435658°W |
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| Address | 900 Dufferin Street Toronto, Ontario M6H 4A9 |
| Opening date | 1956 |
| Management | Primaris REIT |
| Owner | Primaris REIT |
| No. of stores and services | 130 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 4 |
| Total retail floor area | 567,000 sq ft (52,700 m2) |
| No. of floors | 3 |
| Website | dufferinmall |
Dufferin Mall is a shopping mall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the west side of Dufferin Street, south of the intersection of Bloor Street West, in the Brockton Village neighbourhood. It was built in the 1950s on the site of the Dufferin Park Racetrack.
Description
Dufferin Mall is a 567,000-square-foot (52,700 m2) district shopping centre. It has over 120 shops and services including two department stores, big box stores and numerous clothing chains. The mall has a food court and a restaurant. The centre has a three-level parking lot.
History
The location was a part of the Denison estate. In 1907, the site was leased to Abe Orpen who established the Dufferin Park Racetrack. The track operated from 1907 until 1955 when the track was sold to the Ontario Jockey Club and closed. The Ontario Jockey Club consolidated its locations and sold the site for development. The Dufferin Plaza Shopping Centre was a shopping plaza established in 1956.[1] The shopping plaza was converted to enclosed mall space and renamed Dufferin Mall in the 1970s.
Past anchors include Horizon, a discount department store owned by T. Eaton Company. The space was converted to a regular Eaton's store upon the closure of the Horizon chain with the space being converted to a No Frills grocery store in the 1990s.