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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 ]
Yorktown Center is a shopping mall located in the village of Lombard, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, United States.The mall features JCPenney and Von Maur anchors, as well as an 18-screen dine-in AMC Theatres on an outparcel.
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.
University Mall (Illinois) Urbana-Lincoln Hotel-Lincoln Square Mall; V. Village Mall (Danville, Illinois) W. White Oaks Mall (Springfield, Illinois) Woodfield Mall
Yorkdale is a subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the median of the William R. Allen Road just south of Highway 401 . Opened in 1978, the station is named after the nearby Yorkdale Shopping Centre , to which it is connected by an enclosed walkway.
The mall's first stage, comprising a Carson Pirie Scott department store and other mall shops, opened on August 14, 1980, followed by a Montgomery Ward anchor on September 25. [1] Two years later in 1982, Target was added as a third anchor. MetLife bought the mall in 1986 for $21 million. In 1988, Carson Pirie Scott sold its store to Von Maur.
In 2014, the retail complex occupies about 160,000 square metres (1,722,000 sq ft), making it the second-largest mall in Ontario (after Square One Shopping Centre in Mississauga but ahead of Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto's north end). [14]
The store closed on September 2, 2018. [11] In 2020, the mall, along with Stony Point Fashion Park in Richmond, Virginia, and The Shops at Willow Bend in Plano, Texas, got new ownership after Starwood defaulted on its loan. [12] Ford closed its offices in Fairlane Town Center shortly after. AMC closed the mall's theater on November 13, 2022. [13]