Kingsway Mall

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Kingsway Mall
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Kingsway Mall
Kingsway Mall
Location Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Coordinates 53°33′42″N113°30′20″W / 53.56167°N 113.50556°W / 53.56167; -113.50556
Opening date1976
Previous namesKingsway Garden Mall
ManagementOxford Properties Group
OwnerOMERS Realty Corp.
No. of stores and services174
No. of anchor tenants 7 [1]
Total retail floor area 977,880 square feet (90,848 m2) [2]
No. of floors2+basement & offices (on 3rd floor)
Parking3,755 stalls
Public transit access Edmonton Transit System logo.svg BSicon TRAM.svg Edmonton Metro Line icon.svg Kingsway/Royal Alex station
Website kingswaymall.com

Kingsway Mall (formerly Kingsway Garden Mall) is a shopping centre located in central Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Bordered by three major commuter roads (109 Street, Princess Elizabeth Avenue, and Kingsway), Kingsway Mall is situated near NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology) and the Royal Alexandra Hospital.

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History

The mall in 1977 Kingsway Garden Mall, Edmonton, Alberta.jpg
The mall in 1977
The Kingsway Garden Mall logo up to November 2009 Kingsway Garden Mall logo.png
The Kingsway Garden Mall logo up to November 2009

The mall was constructed in 1976. In the 1980s, SuperValu closed. From 2007 to 2009, the mall completed a $70-million redevelopment. The "Revealing" held on the weekend of 13 November 2009, saw the name change, introduced the public to the new mall, and opened the winter shopping season.

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Christmas at Kingsway Mall in 2012.

In January/February 2013, the mall's longtime anchor tenant Zellers closed. it was one of the final Zellers locations in Edmonton standing. On 14 March 2014, its Target location opened and replaced the Zellers, [3] but closed on March 15, 2015. Also, in 2014, the Smitty's and Sheffield Express closed and were revitalized into Forever 21. The mall also had the last Smart Set in Edmonton. Hot Topic opened in the mall in the Fall of 2015 and was the first in Edmonton. In 2017, they announced they would go under a renovation adding a new wing of the mall in the former Target. It was completed in 2018, and contains stores such as Marshalls, HomeSense, Dollarama, H&M (which moved from elsewhere in the mall, which Urban Planet took), among other smaller stores. In late 2017, the Sears store announced its liquidation and closed on January 8, 2018.

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Former Sears location at Kingsway Mall

in 2019, Forever 21 closed. This space was taken by Urban Behavior for a short time during the COVID-19 pandemic until the lease expired. In 2022, Forever 21 returned to Kingsway Mall. On July 8, 2021, Walmart announced that it would be exiting its current Westmount Centre location and relocating to Kingsway Mall in the former Sears space on October 20, 2022. A portion of the former Sears where the store's Sears Home entrance and section were located, was not taken over by Walmart, and that space was replaced by Fit 4 Less, on February 22, 2023. On March 23, 2023, Zellers returned to Kingsway Mall, although as a section in the Hudson's Bay store.

General information

Kingsway Mall is the second largest mall in Edmonton, behind West Edmonton Mall. The mall contains over 174 stores and services including Hudson's Bay, Sport Chek, H&M, and Marshalls/HomeSense. [4] The mall has two main shopping levels (with The Shoe Company situated in the basement) and a third floor consisting of professional offices. Over 3,755 parking stalls surround the mall, in two levels on the east side, as well as Edmonton Transit System services at the Kingsway/Royal Alex and NAIT stations.

Current anchors

Former anchors

See also

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References

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  2. Kingsway Mall | Oxford Properties Group
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