South Keys Shopping Centre

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South Keys Shopping Centre
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South Keys Shopping Centre
Address2210 Bank Street
Ottawa, ON
K1V 1J5
Opening date1996
Owner SmartCentres
No. of stores and services20
No. of anchor tenants 1
Total retail floor area 486,127 sq ft (45,162.7 m2)
Parking2,982
Public transit access Ottawa - Line 2 Trillium Line.svg Greenboro
BSicon BUS3.svg South Keys
Website SmartCentres Ottawa South

South Keys Shopping Centre, officially SmartCentres Ottawa South, is a shopping centre in the South Keys neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is owned and operated by SmartCentres. [1] The power centre is built on 56 acres of land with 486,127 square feet of store space. Walmart serves as the mall's anchor. Eight separate buildings house the centre's 20 stores and services which include supermarkets, restaurants, banks, and a movie theatre. South Keys Shopping Centre was first opened in 1996.

The property is bound by Johnston Road to the north, Bank Street to the east, Dazé Street to the south, and the Transitway to the west. SmartCentres notes that there are 50,638 households comprising 71,374 people within a 5km radius of the shopping centre. The average household income within this radius is CA$113,539. [1]

OC Transpo's Transitway runs north-south along the back of the shopping centre with Greenboro station serving the mall's north end and South Keys station serving the south end. Greenboro station also features a park and ride and access to the Trillium Line. Stage 2 of the O-Train expansion project will see South Keys station connected with the Trillium Line and the new Airport Link in 2023.

The shopping centre has been the location of several minor and major crimes. At around 9:00 a.m. on July 28, 2013, the body of a deceased female was found in the ditch between the Kelsey's parking lot and Bank Street. [2] The following day, she was identified as 28-year-old Melissa Richmond, who had been missing for the previous two weeks. [3] It was Ottawa's seventh homicide of the year. On November 26, 2015, her husband, 53-year-old Howard Richmond, was found guilty of first degree murder. [4] At around 6:30 p.m. on November 23, 2018, a 27-year-old man, Yonis Barkhadle, one of three brothers who were well known to police in the city, was fatally shot in the parking lot at the north end of the mall. [5]

Since 2015, the City of Ottawa has been considering redeveloping South Keys Shopping Centre into a mixed-use area. [6] [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "SmartCentres Ottawa South". SmartCentres. Retrieved November 16, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Police find body near South Keys Mall parking lot". CBC News. July 28, 2013. Retrieved November 22, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Body found in South Keys identified as missing woman". CBC News. July 29, 2013. Retrieved November 22, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Howard Richmond found guilty of 1st-degree murder in death of wife Melissa". CBC News. November 26, 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2022.
  5. ↑ Yogaretnam, Shaamini (August 2, 2013). "One brother a homicide victim, the other a two-time accused killer". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved November 16, 2022.
  6. ↑ "South Keys to Blossom Park, Bank Street Secondary Plan". Ottawa. City of Ottawa. Retrieved November 16, 2022.
  7. ↑ Gauthier, Laura (April 29, 2022). "Better South Keys Centre project: Yes in my backyard". Apt613. Retrieved November 16, 2022.

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