Northland Village Mall

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Northland Village Mall
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The former southeast entrance to the mall
Northland Village Mall
Location Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Address5111 Northland Dr NW
Opening date1971
ManagementPrimaris REIT
No. of stores and services81 (prior to 2021)
No. of anchor tenants 3
Total retail floor area 380,000 square feet (35,000 m2)
No. of floors2
Website https://www.northlandvillagemall.ca/

Northland Village Mall is an open-air shopping mall located in northwest Calgary, Alberta. The mall opened in 1971, with it being further expanded in 2005. [1] The mall began major renovations in 2021, with demolition to redevelop the mall happening throughout the year 2022 to turn it into an open-air facility. [2] Prior to 2021, Northland Mall was a one-level shopping centre (with a small two-level section) with over 60 retail shops and services.

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The mall is located at the intersection of Crowchild Trail and Shaganappi Trail, surrounded by the neighbourhoods of Brentwood and Dalhousie.

Retail stores

The mall's three main anchor retailers are currently Best Buy, Winners and Walmart (previously Woolco). It was a regional mall with 510,000 square feet (47,000 m2) of gross leasable area. [3]

Northland Village underwent renovations in 2003, when it was expanded to accommodate the arrival of new anchor Best Buy and again in 2005, when the bargain cinema was converted into Calgary's first Designer Depot, the Hudson's Bay Co.'s first off-price retail store location in Western Canada. [4]

History

Until 1999, Eaton's was the primary anchor on the north side of mall. This was replaced with a Future Shop until that brand became defunct in 2015. For several years, the Future Shop operated at the same time as the mall's Best Buy; despite sharing owners and carrying similar goods, the two stores were located down a short corridor from one another. Part of the former Eaton's footprint was also used to add a small second floor area with a Winners and Fabricland.

The mall is the recipient of a 1998 MAXI Award [5] for their program to help impoverished adults [6]

Slowly over the years, the mall saw major loses in foot traffic. As more and more anchors left the mall like Future Shop and Home Outfitters, mixed with the malls vintage look, less and less people visited this mall. Especially with the bigger and more popular mall Market Mall just down the road, more and more businesses left over the years.

In November 2021, the interior of the mall was mostly closed in preparation for a redevelopment of the site that will see the shopping centre "de-malled" and become an open-air complex, with major reconstruction beginning in January 2022. [2] In mid-January 2022, filming for the TV series The Last of Us took place at the mall, with the shuttered corridors standing in for a post-apocalyptic setting. [7]

In May 2023, the demolition of the mall began as part of the ongoing redevelopment, though some retailers such as Walmart and Best Buy remained in operation.

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