 Confederation Mall Main Entrance | |
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| Location | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada |
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| Coordinates | 52°07′57″N106°43′17″W / 52.13250°N 106.72139°W |
| Address | 300 Confederation Drive |
| Opening date | 1973 |
| No. of stores and services | 42 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 4 |
| Total retail floor area | 329,128 sq ft (30,577.0 m2) |
| No. of floors | 1 |
| Website | www |
Confederation Mall is a 329,128 sq. ft. [1] shopping mall located at 22nd Street and Circle Drive in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The mall was originally named Confederation Park Plaza when it opened in mid-1973, at which time its anchor tenants were Canada Safeway and Woolco.[ citation needed ]
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The mall was originally planned for a location on Saskatoon's east side, at the southwest corner of Clarence Avenue and Circle Drive (site of the present-day Saskatoon Auto Mall), but in May 1972, the Saskatoon City Council rejected the plan, citing community concerns. As a result, the mall's developers looked to build on an alternate site on the city's west side. [2] However, plans for a mall in the area around what is now Confederation Park had existed at least as early as 1966. [3] [4]
An unusual aspect of the mall is that, around the time construction began on 18 November 1972, [5] the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix , in conjunction with mall developers Trizec Equities Ltd., hosted a "You Name It" contest inviting readers to come up with a name for the mall. A Saskatoon resident won an Air Canada flight to London and $300 for choosing the name "Confederation Park Plaza". [6]
In 1994, Woolco became Wal-Mart, and around this same time the mall underwent an expansion that added a food court and a new Safeway store; the original Safeway location became part of the food court with the remaining space used for a third anchor tenant, initially a branch of the Family Video home video rental chain, and later Petland. Other stores include clothing stores, electronics, services, florists, banks, and jewelers. [7]
In the summer of 2009, a new state of the art Walmart was constructed in a new power centre commercial area in the Blairmore Urban Centre several kilometres west of Confederation Mall; the only Walmart in Saskatoon to house both a McDonald's & a Tim Hortons,(closed in 2022) the one in the mall closed after the 2009 holiday season and in 2010 was renovated to house a Canadian Tire (with Mark's Work Wearhouse) that opened in Spring of 2011 (in turn, the new Canadian Tire replaced a standalone location that had operated in the nearby Plaza 22 shopping centre since the 1970s) and now houses three separate retailers and a fitness centre Fit 4 Less, Dollar Tree, Sport Chek, and a Jysk, The new Canadian Tire and Marks is a standalone, as its connection to the rest of the mall was closed. This resulted in a portion of the mall being reconfigured to house a new anchor, Winners, which is accessed from inside the mall. This was followed by the launch of a major interior renovation to the mall which, as of 2015, was to expand the food court which currently today houses a Tim Hortons & a TacoTime. [8]