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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.
In December 2013, Ivanhoé Cambridge announced that they would be building an outlet mall, then-called "The Outlet Collection at EIA", near the Edmonton International Airport. [5] It would be 33,000 m 2 (350,000 sq ft) in size with over 85 stores and was slated to open in fall 2016.
West Edmonton Mall (WEM) is a large shopping mall in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, that is owned, managed, and operated by Triple Five Group.It is the second most visited mall in Canada, [6] after the Toronto Eaton Centre in Toronto, followed by Metropolis at Metrotown in Burnaby, [7] and the 14th largest in the world (along with Dubai Mall) by gross leasable area. [8]
These expansions brought the West Edmonton Mall from the largest in Canada to the largest in the world. [ 12 ] In addition to building the West Edmonton Mall, Triple Five also developed the Eaton's Centre mall and mixed-use development in downtown Edmonton, which began development in 1980 [ 13 ] and opened in 1986.
Beginning in 1981, La Maison Simons began an expansion across Quebec. In 2012, the company expanded its business to the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta first, before opening several more stores across Canada. The success of the location at the West Edmonton Mall led to the company being sought out as a key anchor tenant at malls across Canada.
Canada's first indoor mall was the Lister Block, originally opened in 1852, in Hamilton, Ontario. [1] The Lister Block was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1924. [2] In 2011 the building was completely rebuilt. [3] Opened in 1949, the first shopping mall in Canada is the Norgate shopping centre, a strip mall in Saint-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec.
The mall was projected to open in fall 1987 but was delayed to late 1988 after Woodward's sold their real estate assets to Cambridge in October 1985. [6] [7] On August 17, 1988, the mall officially opened with Woodward's, Kmart, Safeway, and BiWay as the mall's anchor stores. [8] Edmonton Public Library's Mill Woods branch also moved into the ...