Brampton Mall is a shopping mall in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Typical of early North American malls, the Brampton Mall is an outdoor plaza with two rows of stores, connected by a "covered breezeway".[2]
A shopping mall is a modern, chiefly North American, term for a form of shopping precinct or shopping center, in which one or more buildings form a complex of shops representing merchandisers with interconnecting walkways that enable customers to walk from unit to unit. A shopping arcade is a specific type of shopping precinct which is usually distinguished in English for mall shopping by the fact that connecting walkways are not owned by a single proprietor and are in open air. Shopping malls in 2017 accounted for 8% of retailing space in the United States.
Brampton is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Situated in Southern Ontario, it is a suburban city in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and the seat of Peel Region. The city has a population of 593,638 as of the Canada 2016 Census. Brampton is Canada's ninth-most populous municipality, the seventy-seventh largest city in North America and the third most populous city in the Greater Golden Horseshoe Region, behind Toronto and Mississauga.
Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province accounting for 38.3 percent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province in total area. Ontario is fourth-largest jurisdiction in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto, which is also Ontario's provincial capital.
Initially, Brampton Mall planned to stay open Mondays, against Brampton's closing hours by-law, announcing their intentions the morning of November 15, 1960. Also that day, the retail merchants committee of the Brampton Chamber of Commerce met November 15 with Brampton Shopping Centre officials regarding the "delicate subject" of business hours for retail in town. Officials from the mall wanted to arrange a meeting of all merchants after Christmas, both in the downtown and in the mall, to determine store shopping hours.[3] Patrick McQuade, the mall's director of operations, later told the press that they indeed would observe Monday and evening closing hours, stating "We feel by-law amendments might be studied toward the end of the year."[4]
The 34 store plaza[4] was anchored by Steinberg's, who simultaneously opened stores at Newtonbrook Plaza, Yonge Street and Cummer Avenue, and Cedarbrae Plaza, at Lawrence Avenue and Markham Road,[5] adding to two previous GTA locations.[6] (By 1962, the store was simply "Steinberg", singular.)[7]
Five stores were gutted in a fire in 1963; being a Monday, the mall was closed at the time, and no one injured. The fire caused damage to eleven other units in the mall, a variety of stores and offices. Starting in a drapery and fabric store, it spread to a photography studio, brides' shop, cleaners, and a dress and fur store. It caused $250,000 in damages. Firefighters had the flames under control within an hour, fighting "to the accompaniment of hi-fi music over the mall loudspeakers." Half of the 26 lanes in the mall's bowling alley were water damaged. The Toronto Star suggested the centre of the mall was "turned... into a miniature lake," which "dozens of children romped on bicycles through the water."[8]
Reopening of the Metro store, 2012, created significant lineups to enter the store.
In 1970, a committee of the Town of Brampton's council approved relocating Meadowland Gate, 100 feet east of its present location, to allow for the expansion of the Brampton Mall. The move allowed the plaza the opportunity to add four acres and 59,000 square feet of new commercial space.[9]
Miracle Food Mart was a supermarket chain in Ontario, Canada, owned by Steinberg's, a Quebec-based retailer in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Bramalea City Centre is a large shopping mall located in the city of Brampton, Ontario, Canada. With over a 1.5 million square feet of retail space and more than 300 outlets, it is one of Canada's largest shopping malls. Regarded as a super regional mall, the Bramalea City Centre has a market of more than 500,000 residents and attracts 16 million visitors annually. The Bramalea City Centre is located near the intersection of Queen Street and Dixie Road, just east of Highway 410.
As of 1976, there was an outlet of the Peel Region Health Unit at the mall.[11] Lease agreements continued until at least 1982,[12] but this may exclusively been on behalf of the Peel Children's Aid Society.[13]
In 1992, Airi Anneli Makinen was murdered by estranged husband Runo Mark Cairenius in a hammer attack, when Makinen returned home from the Brampton Mall.[14] He received life in prison[15] and was denied a parole hearing in 2008.[16] Separately, in 1983, a purse-snatcher, a homeless man known to locals only as John the Baptist, dragged a senior several yards in an attempt to steal her purse,[17] and in 1995, an armed robbery took place at the Bargain Shop.[18]
The Brampton Mall, off limits after a major fire in 2008
On May 15, 2008 in the early evening, three youth broke into the vacant bowling alley unit at the mall. They started a fire, which led to police and fire evacuated the mall. An investigation was scheduled for two to three days while engineers and city officials looked at the structural damage. The fire created $1 million worth of damage, particularly to Movie Experts, Shoppers Drug Mart and Brampton Home Furnishing.[19] Eight stores were affected, and an underground delivery corridor's concrete ceiling dropped 6 to 8 inches. Firefighters had to search a "maze of corridors" in the basement, to ensure no one remained in the building. One of the youths involved was 17-year-old Richard Sloppick who was subsequently charged with arson.[2] Power was turned off to all units except A&P and Coffee Time, and shut down traffic on Main Street.[2] Shoppers Drug Mart set up a temporary facility for prescriptions during the closure.[2]
Shoppers Drug Mart Corporation is a Canadian retail pharmacy chain based in Toronto, Ontario. It has more than 1,300 stores operating under the names Shoppers Drug Mart in nine provinces and two territories and Pharmaprix in Quebec.
Dominion Stores was a national chain of supermarkets in Canada,. The chain was founded in 1919 in Ontario and was later acquired by the Argus Corporation. It was later sold to The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P), which restricted the chain to the Greater Toronto Area. Stores outside Ontario were converted to the A&P banner or sold to third parties. A&P's Canadian division was later acquired by Metro Inc., which rebranded the remaining Dominion stores to its namesake banner in 2008.
The 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 the Scarborough Centre station and Scarborough Centre Bus Terminal. It was constructed by Oxford Properties and opened in 1973 to become the sixth largest shopping mall in Canada, fourth largest in Ontario and third in Toronto by retail space.
King's Highway 50, commonly referred to as Highway 50, was a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The highway, which was decommissioned in 1998, is still referred to as Highway 50, though it is now made up of several county and regional roads: Peel Regional Road 50, York Regional Road 24 and Simcoe County Road 50. The route began in the northwest corner of Toronto at Highway 27 as Albion Road, and travelled northwest to Highway 89 west of the town of Alliston. En route, it passed through the villages of Bolton, Palgrave and Loretto. The road south of Bolton is becoming increasingly suburban as development encroaches from the east and west; but despite this increasing urbanization, the removal of highway status, and the fact that it runs through the former Albion Township, the Albion Road name has not been extended to follow it outside Toronto.
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Peel Regional Paramedics Services, provide ambulatory and paramedic care for the municipalities within Peel Region, in Ontario, Canada. Paramedic Headquarters are located in Brampton at 1600 Bovaird Road east and operations serve the residents of Caledon, Brampton, and Mississauga.
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Parkway Mall is a community-scale shopping centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located at the southeast corner of Victoria Park Avenue & Ellesmere Road in the Maryvale neighbourhood in the former city of Scarborough.
Bayview Village Shopping Centre is a shopping mall in the North York area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, containing over 110 stores. The 440,000-square-foot (41,000 m2) shopping mall is located at the northeast corner of Bayview Avenue and Sheppard Avenue in the community of Willowdale, and the neighbourhood of Bayview Village. The anchor stores are Loblaws, Shoppers Drug Mart and LCBO.
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Westwood Square is a shopping centre located in the Malton neighbourhood in Mississauga, Ontario. The mall is located off Goreway Drive and Morning Star Drive, approximately 1.25 km west of Highway 427. The 425,000 sq ft (39,484 m2) mall is small compared to other shopping centres in the area such as the Woodbine Centre, Sherway Gardens, and the Bramalea City Centre. Despite its size, Westwood Square contains major retailers such as Walmart, Shoppers Drug Mart, and FreshCo. On the north side of the mall is a 64,000 sq ft (5,946 m2) transit terminal with fifteen operational platforms servicing the cities of Brampton, Mississauga, and Toronto.
↑ MacDonald, Percy (11 November 1960). Board of Directors Meeting. Brampton ON: Brampton Chamber of Commerce.|access-date= requires |url= (help); "Mr. McQuade and Mr. Guest" are listed as being the Brampton Mall representatives.
1 2 "Brampton Mall Will Obey By-Law". The Toronto Star. Toronto ON. 16 November 1960. p.14.
↑ ""Lean, tender, tasty and low priced" ad, Steinberg's". The Toronto Star. 16 November 1960. p.35.
↑ ""Dreaming of a "Pinky" Christmas" ad". The Toronto Star. 30 November 1960. p.36.; previous locations were at Parkway Plaza (Victoria Park and Ellesmere) and Thorncliffe Market Place (Overlea Boulevard and Thorncliffe Park Road, Leaside).
↑ The Toronto Star. 27 June 1962. p.30.Missing or empty |title= (help)
↑ "$250,000 Mall Blaze In Brampton". The Toronto Star. Toronto ON. 27 August 1963. p.18.
↑ "Brampton Mall to expand". The Toronto Star. Toronto ON. 21 May 1970. p.41.
↑ ""Ontario's leader in food discounting..." ad". The Toronto Star. 11 April 1974. p.A16.
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