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Yorkdale Shopping Centre, Yorkdale Mall, or simply Yorkdale, is a major retail shopping centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located at the southwest corner of the interchange between Highway 401 and Allen Road , it opened in 1964 as the largest enclosed shopping mall in the world. [ 3 ]
The following is a list of Canada's largest enclosed shopping malls, by reported total retail floor space, or gross leasable area (GLA) with 750,000 square feet (70,000 m 2) and over. In cases where malls have equal areas, they are further ranked by the number of stores.
A new store in Gatineau, Quebec, opened on August 13, 2015, investing $21 million in the location. [8] Furthermore, in 2015, a location opened at Park Royal Shopping Centre in West Vancouver, British Columbia. [5] A store in Calgary, Alberta, opened on March 16, 2017, in the Lancaster Building as part of The Core shopping mall.
Yorkdale Shopping Centre is Toronto's first of its kind and was the world's largest shopping mall at the time of opening, [1] while Toronto Eaton Centre is the most visited shopping mall in North America. These five malls were completed within a 13-year span in the 1960s and 1970s.
Sears also acquired two existing The Bay stores at the Scarborough Town Centre and Yorkdale shopping malls. [14] On the other hand, the Sears store at the Burlington Mall was sold to The Bay. [14] The stores that went to The Bay were all rebranded on August 14, 1991. [17]
It established in-store shops for its Miss Renfrew line, marketed to "Young Careerists, College Girls, and Young Matrons," who wished to dress fashionably on a budget. [28] Holt Renfrew's retail expansion continued with mall openings at Toronto's Yorkdale Shopping Centre in 1964, and Place Ste-Foy, Quebec City, in 1965. [29]
Sporting Life in Hillcrest Mall, Richmond Hill, ON. The co-founders of Sporting Life sold a 75% stake to Fairfax in late 2011 in order to fund the retailer's expansion. The plan was to open two stores a year, with suggested locations in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, and Montreal, each store being in the 30,000-50,000 square foot range.
JACOB at Yorkdale Mall. Jacob (formally known as Boutique Jacob, Inc) was a private, family owned Canadian chain of women's and girls' clothing store chain based out of Montreal, Quebec. At its peak, Jacob once had over 200 stores all over Canada, usually in malls.