Garden City Shopping Centre (Winnipeg)

Last updated
Garden City Shopping Centre
Garden City Shopping Centre (Winnipeg)
Location2305 McPhillips Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R2V 3E1
Coordinates 49°57′03″N97°08′42″W / 49.9508°N 97.1449°W / 49.9508; -97.1449
Opening dateAugust 12, 1970;51 years ago (1970-08-12)
DeveloperJames Kelly
Management RioCan REIT
OwnerRioCan REIT
No. of stores and services70
No. of anchor tenants 3
Total retail floor area 379,681 sq ft (35,273.5 m2)
No. of floors1
Parking2,700 vehicles
Public transit access Bus-logo.svg Winnipeg Transit Garden City Shopping Centre Transit Terminal
17 McGregor
18 North Main-Corydon
71 Arlington
77 Crosstown North
Website www.shopgardencity.ca

Garden City Shopping Centre is a single-level shopping centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, located at the intersection of McPhillips Street and Leila Avenue. [1] Built in 1970, it was opened on August 12 that year. [2]

Contents

With an area of 379,681 sq ft (35,273.5 m2), [3] the mall consists of 70 stores and 10 restaurants on a single level. Anchor stores include Canadian Tire, Winners and GoodLife Fitness. [4]

The shopping centre is owned and managed by RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust. [5]

History

The shopping centre was developed by James Kelly of Toronto. [2] The centre was built in West Kildonan upon 40 acres (16 ha) of land. [6] Upon construction in 1969–1970, at a cost of millions of dollars, 100,000 sq ft (9,300 m2) of space. The initial plan was for 40 stores. The T. Eaton Co. Limited also purchased space in the mall. [6] [7]

A major expansion began in 1974, with a 181,000 sq ft (16,800 m2) addition. Anchor stores at that time included the Simpson-Sears store and a Dominion supermarket, with plans to add an Eaton's store and a Beaver Lumber. [8] T. Eaton Co. Limited opened an 86,000 sq ft (8,000 m2) store in August 1976. [9] As of that same year, Garden City was one of the four largest regional malls in the city of Winnipeg. [10]

The Eaton's store closed in 1998, and its space was taken over by a Canadian Tire store. [11]

In Spring 2018, Garden City completed a $10-million renovation. The centre was enhanced with revitalized interiors, new seating, new bathrooms, revamped food court, and energy-efficient lighting throughout. [12]

With Sears Canada having closed their operations due to nationwide bankruptcy, the space formerly occupied by them at the shopping centre has been redeveloped. [13] The 92,000 sq ft (8,500 m2) area was divided into multiple units, and a lease has been signed with Seafood City Supermarket, a new-to-Winnipeg iconic Filipino-focused grocer, Michaels, and Bulk Barn. [14] [15]

Related Research Articles

Sears Canada Defunct Canadian department store chain

Sears Canada Inc. was a publicly-traded Canadian company affiliated with the American-based Sears department store chain. In operation from 1952 until January 14, 2018, and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, the company began as Simpsons-Sears—a joint venture between the Canadian Simpsons department store chain and the American Sears chain—which operated a national mail order business and co-branded Simpsons-Sears stores modelled after those of Sears in the U.S. After the Hudson's Bay Company purchased Simpsons in 1978, the joint venture was dismantled and Hudson's Bay sold its shares in the joint venture to Sears; with Sears now fully owning the company, it was renamed Sears Canada Inc. in 1984. In 1999, Sears Canada acquired the remaining assets and locations of the historic Canadian chain Eaton's. From 2014, Sears Holdings owned a 10% share in the company. ESL Investments was the largest shareholder of Sears Canada.

Simpsons (department store) Defunct Canadian department store chain

The Robert Simpson Company Limited, commonly known as Simpson's until 1972, then as Simpsons, and in Quebec sometimes as Simpson, was a Canadian department store chain that had its earliest roots in a store opened in 1858 by Robert Simpson.

Eatons Canadian retailer

The T. Eaton Company Limited, later known as Eaton's, was a Canadian department store chain that was once Canada's largest. It was founded in 1869 in Toronto by Timothy Eaton, an immigrant from what is now Northern Ireland. Eaton's grew to become a retail and social institution in Canada, with stores across the country, buying-offices around the globe, and a mail-order catalog that was found in the homes of most Canadians. A changing economic and retail environment in the late twentieth century, along with mismanagement, culminated in the chain's bankruptcy in 1999.

Yorkdale Shopping Centre Shopping mall

Yorkdale Shopping Centre, or simply Yorkdale, is a major retail shopping centre in the North York district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located at the intersection of Highway 401 and Allen Road, it opened in 1964 as the largest enclosed shopping mall in the world. Yorkdale is currently the third largest shopping mall in Canada by floor space and has the highest sales per unit area of any mall in Canada, with current merchandise sales levels at roughly CA$1,905/square foot. At 18 million annual visitors, it is one of the country's busiest malls. Many international retailers have opened their first Canadian locations at Yorkdale.

Carrefour Laval Shopping mall

Carrefour Laval is a super regional shopping mall in Laval, Quebec, Canada. It is located in the Chomedey neighbourhood of the city at the intersection of Autoroute des Laurentides (A-15) and Autoroute Jean-Noël-Lavoie (A-440).

Fairview Pointe-Claire Shopping mall

Fairview Pointe-Claire is the largest shopping mall in the West Island and one of the biggest on the Island of Montreal. It is located in the city of Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada, at the intersection of Trans-Canada Highway and Saint-Jean Boulevard.

Galeries dAnjou Shopping mall in Quebec, Canada

Galeries d'Anjou is a shopping mall located in the borough of Anjou in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Major tenants include Hudson's Bay, Simons, The Brick, Saks Off 5th, Winners and Sports Experts/Atmosphere. In addition to the main indoor shopping centre, Galeries d'Anjou has several stores around its parking lot including Best Buy and Rona l'Entrepôt.

Fairview Mall Shopping mall

Fairview Mall is a large shopping centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada of about 80,000 m2 (860,000 sq ft). Opened in 1970, the centre has over 180 stores, offices and a cinema complex. It is located several kilometres north-east of downtown, at the northeast corner of Don Mills Road and Sheppard Avenue East in the former borough of North York.

Square One Shopping Centre Shopping mall in Mississauga, Ontario

Scarborough Town Centre Shopping mall in Ontario, Canada

Scarborough Town Centre (STC) is a shopping mall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Central to the Scarborough City Centre in the former city of Scarborough, it is adjacent to Scarborough Centre station, the Scarborough Centre Bus Terminal and the CTV Toronto studios. Opened in 1973, the mall is the fourth largest shopping mall in Canada and third in Toronto by retail space.

Mic Mac Mall is Atlantic Canada's largest enclosed shopping mall located in the community of Dartmouth, across the harbour from Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is owned and managed by Mic Mac Mall Limited Partnership.

Shoppers World Brampton Shopping mall in Ontario, Canada

Shoppers World Brampton is a shopping mall in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. It is host to over 190 stores, including Canadian Tire, Winners and Staples.

Eaton Centre Canadian shopping centres

Eaton Centre is a name associated with shopping centres in Canada, originating with Eaton's, one of Canada's largest department store chains at the time that these malls were developed. Eaton's partnered with development companies throughout the 1970s and 1980s to develop downtown shopping malls in cities across Canada. Each mall contained an Eaton's store, or was in close proximity to an Eaton's store, and typically the mall itself carried the "Eaton Centre" name. These joint ventures were a significant retail development trend in Canada during that period.

Bay Centre Shopping mall

The Bay Centre, formerly the Victoria Eaton Centre, is a shopping mall in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It is bounded by Douglas, Government, Fort, and View streets, in the city's historic centre. It has 39,115 square metres (421,030 sq ft) of retail space.

The Pen Centre Shopping mall in Ontario, Canada

The Pen Centre is the largest shopping mall in the Niagara Region, located in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

Promenades St-Bruno is a two-level shopping mall located in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec, Canada. Ground was broken in the spring of 1977 to build the mall and it was completed in August 1978. Les Promenades St-Bruno is the largest mall in the Montérégie and part of its consumer base come from cities as far as Saint-Hyacinthe and Sorel-Tracy. The anchor tenants are The Bay and Simons.

Burlington Centre Shopping mall

Burlington Centre is a 721,000 square feet (67,000 m2) shopping mall located in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the two enclosed malls in Burlington, Ontario, the other being the Mapleview Centre. The stores at Burlington Centre include Hudson's Bay, Homesense, Old Navy and Winners. It has two floors, the upper floor covers the wing leading to the food court, the floor above the food court area, and the second floor of Hudson's Bay. The Hudson's Bay store gained national media attention in 2021 for its Zellers pop-up shop.

The Champlain Mall is a shopping mall located in Brossard, Quebec at the intersection of Taschereau Boulevard and Lapinière Boulevard. Champlain Mall is named in honour of Samuel de Champlain but references the Champlain Bridge that was built 13 years prior to the mall's opening.

Kildonan Place Regional shopping centre in Manitoba, Canada

Kildonan Place is a shopping centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, located in the neighbourhood of Transcona at 1555 Regent Avenue West.

Mapleview Mall, or simply Mapleview, is a two-storey shopping mall located in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. It is located at the intersection of Maple Avenue and Fairview Street, south of the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW). The name of the mall comes from the two streets in which it is located. It is owned by Ivanhoé Cambridge.

References

  1. ↑ King, Randall (5 August 2010). "Garden City Cinemas closing after 40 years", Winnipeg Free Press , p. D2.
  2. 1 2 Smith, Kenneth B. (10 July 1970). "Building and real estate: Shopping centre growth in next five years declared unlikely to equal record of past five", The Globe and Mail , p. B4.
  3. ↑ "Garden City Shopping Centre Archived 2014-07-19 at the Wayback Machine ", RioCan. January 2014. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  4. ↑ "Garden City Shopping Centre ::: Information". www.shopgardencity.ca. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  5. ↑ "RioCan - Garden City Shopping Centre". riocan.propertycapsule.com. Retrieved 2019-06-28.
  6. 1 2 (27 February 1969). "Simpsons-Sears in Winnipeg", Toronto Daily Star , p. 34.
  7. ↑ (26 February 1969). "Simpsons-Sears to build 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m2) store at Winnipeg centre", The Globe and Mail , p. B3.
  8. ↑ (4 October 1974). "Inflation called key difficulty", The Globe and Mail , p. B3.
  9. ↑ (7 August 1976). "Companies in the news: Eaton", The Globe and Mail , p. 14.
  10. ↑ (21 April 1976). "Shopping centres meeting slower sales growth", The Globe and Mail , p. B16.
  11. ↑ Sherren, Reg (23 August 1999). "Eaton's closures", The National , CBC News.
  12. ↑ "Garden City Shopping Centre ::: Winnipeg ::: MB". www.shopgardencity.ca. Retrieved 2019-06-28.
  13. ↑ Solutions, Evoke (2017-10-05). "RioCan REIT Announces Agreements With Sears Canada at RioCan Oakville Place and Garden City Shopping Centre". RioCan REIT. Retrieved 2019-06-28.
  14. ↑ "Garden City Shopping Centre ::: Winnipeg ::: MB". www.shopgardencity.ca. Retrieved 2019-06-28.
  15. ↑ Israel, Solomon (September 16, 2019). "Mall makeover at Garden City". Winnipeg Free Press.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.