Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre

Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre is an open-air mall located in the Elmvale Acres neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It opened in 1961, making it one of the oldest shopping centres in the city.^[1] The mall is just a short 10-minute drive south of St. Laurent Shopping Centre. The shopping centre is also just a 3-minute drive from the Canadian Museum of Science of Technology (closed until 2017). The Smythe Medical Centre is located just across from the north end of the mall. The mall is bounded by Smythe Road to the north, Othello Avenue to the west, Russell Road to the east, and St. Laurent Boulevard to the south. The shopping centre has approximately 60 shops and services including Dollar Plus, LCBO, Loblaws, Rexall Pharma Plus, Royal Bank, The Beer Store, and the Ottawa Public Library. The shopping centre is adjacent to the Elmvale Transit Station. The size of the total complex is 147,332 square feet. The shopping centre is currently owned by Rio-Can Real Estate Investment Trust.

Transit services

The following routes serve Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre:
86 106 112 114 148 149

Route 86 provides residents with connections to Algonquin College, The Ottawa Civic Hospital, Tunney's Pasture, downtown Ottawa, Hurdman Station, and the Perley-Rideau Veterans Health Centre. It also provides connections to the communities of Hawthorne Meadows, Sheffield Glen, Riverview, and Parkwood Hills.
Route 106 provides residents with connections to the Ottawa Health Sciences Complex, which includes the Ottawa General Hospital, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, the Ottawa Rehabilitation Centre, the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Health Science, and Hurdman Station via Smyth Road and the Transitway.
Route 112 provides residents with connections to Canterbury High School, the Ottawa South Business Park, Herongate Mall, and Billings Bridge. It also provides connections to the communities of Hawthorne Meadows, Herongate, and Heron Park.
Route 114 provides connections to Hurdman Station, St. Laurent Shopping Centre, OC Transpo Headquarters, the Ottawa South Business Park, and the communities of Hawthorne Meadows, South Keys, and Greenboro.
Route 148 provides connections to Canterbury High School, Billings Bridge, and Hurdman by travelling via Canterbury and Kilborn.
Route 149 travels via Pleasant Park Road to Hurdman Station.