Confederation Mall

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Confederation Mall
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Confederation Mall
Location Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Coordinates 52°07′57″N106°43′17″W / 52.13250°N 106.72139°W / 52.13250; -106.72139
Address300 Confederation Drive
Opening date1973
No. of stores and services42
No. of anchor tenants 4
Total retail floor area 329,128 sq ft (30,577.0 m2)
No. of floors1
Website www.confedmall.ca

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 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, florist, 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 Suburban 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]

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References

  1. Confederation Mall
  2. Cooney, Tom and Julian Rachey (3 June 1972). "The Mall That Never Was...Now a Boon for City?". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
  3. "Dundonald suburban area studied by city planners". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. July 26, 1966. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
  4. The 1974 National Film Board of Canada documentary, Saskatoon: Land and Growth Control (available on nfb.ca) has the developers and City of Saskatoon Planning officials state the east side location was rejected primarily due to a lack of utility services and an abundance of undeveloped commercial space on the east side of the city, and the west side location was offered by the City due to there being a deficit of retail in that part of the city and plans being in place for extensive residential development adjacent to the substitute location in the short term. Indeed, development would occur in six neighbourhoods on all sides of the mall over the next decade, whereas residential development to the south and east of the rejected site did not begin until after the end of the century.
  5. "West side mall officially launched (archived on Newspapers.com)". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. 18 November 1972.
  6. "Trizec Equities advertisement (archived on Newspapers.com)". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. 23 November 1972.
  7. www.confederationmall.ca http://www.confederationmall.ca . Retrieved February 3, 2007.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)[ title missing ]
  8. MacPherson, Alex (August 5, 2015). "Confederation Mall begins major renovation". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. Retrieved May 2, 2018.