Centerpoint Mall (Toronto)

Centerpoint Mall

Location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Coordinates	43°47′46″N79°25′19″W / 43.796°N 79.422°W / 43.796; -79.422
Address	6464 Yonge Street
Opening date	1 June 1966 (1966-06-01)
Management	Morguard
Owner	Revenue Properties Company Limited
No. of stores and services	144 [1]
No. of anchor tenants	4 (1 vacant)
Total retail floor area	58,100 m2 (625,000 sq ft)
No. of floors	1 (2 floors in The Bay)
Parking	2,258
Website	Centerpoint Mall

Mall Interior

Centerpoint Mall (formerly Towne and Countrye Square until the name change to its present name in 1990) is a shopping mall located in Newtonbrook, Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the southwest corner of Steeles Avenue and Yonge Street at the boundary of Toronto. ^[2] It contains 59,004.7 square metres (635,121 sq ft) of retail space.

History

It was originally known as Towne and Countrye Square at its grand opening in the 1960s as an enclosed mall. ^[3] In 1966, the mall began operation with anchors Sayvette and Super City Discount Foods, later adding the Miracle Mart department store. Miracle Mart was converted to Canadian Tire. The Super City (later Loblaws) store was torn down and rebuilt as a two-storey Zellers. The Bay was added adjacent to Yonge Street in April 1974. The Sayvette chain went defunct in 1975 and was converted to Woolco. Woolco closed and the store was converted to a supermarket under the Loblaw Companies, first as a Super Centre, then to Loblaws, then to No Frills. The Congee Queen does not have an entrance to the interior of the mall, allowing it to remain open separately from the rest of the mall; the supermarket is connected but shopping carts are blocked off from the rest of the mall.

The Zellers was closed in 2012 when the Zellers leasehold was purchased by Target; the location was closed for about a year before reopening as Target on 19 March 2013. In early 2015, all Target stores across Canada closed. A Lowe's home improvement store opened in the former Target store in late November 2016, ^[4] but it had closed by the end of February 2019. ^[5] Replacing the Lowe's, Canada Computers store has now been open since December 14, 2019, but only using the first floor of the anchor space. ^[6]

On 9 December 2021, an application was submitted to the city to permit the re-development of the property. It is planned to demolish the mall over several years, with the aim of replacing it with "[a] network of new public and private streets and development blocks containing a mix of uses including residential, retail, office, a central public park, and privately-owned publicly accessible spaces". ^[7]

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  Food Court
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  Entrance 1 void
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  Closeup facade of Centerpoint Mall
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  Target at Centerpoint, opened in 2013 and closed in 2015

See also

• List of shopping malls in Toronto
• List of shopping malls in Canada

References

1. "Centerpoint Mall General Information" (PDF). Morguard. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
2. "Centerpoint Mall - Home". Centerpoint Mall. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
3. "Historicist: Living the Towne & Countrye Square Life". 19 January 2013. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
4. "Towers Department Stores: Stores". Archived from the original on 2012-08-20. Retrieved 2013-03-11.
5. Evans, Pete (5 November 2018). "Lowe's closing 31 locations in Canada, mainly Rona stores". CBC. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
6. "Canada Computers North York Grand Opening".
7. "Toronto Sun: Clock ticking on Centerpoint Mall?". 6 January 2022. Retrieved 2022-04-14.