Carlingwood Mall

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Carlingwood Mall
Carlingwood Mall
Facts and statistics
Location Ottawa, Ontario
Coordinates 45°22′19″N 75°46′12″W / 45.372, -75.77Coordinates: 45°22′19″N 75°46′12″W / 45.372, -75.77
Opening date 1956[1]
Management Denis Pelletier
Owner 20 Vic Management Inc.
No. of stores and services 120
No. of anchor tenants 2 (Loblaws & Sears)
Parking Over 2,500 parking spaces[2]
No. of floors 1 (with some low-level space, and a small 2nd floor)
Website www.carlingwood.com

Carlingwood Mall (or also called Carlingwood Shopping Centre) is a major mall located in the west end of the city of Ottawa, Ontario. It is operated by 20 Vic Management Inc. under the current general manager, Denis Pelletier. The mall opened in 1956[1] and was the city's first major shopping centres.

Contents

[edit] History

In 2002 the management of the mall was criticised by CUPE, a labour union, for locking out cleaning staff who were part of the union in favour of non-union staff who received minimum wage and no benefits.[3] The CUPE boycott of the mall ended with a victory for the union.[4] Bill Murnighan, a writer for Our Times, used the dispute as an example of the "crossroads" that union organising faced in Canada at the beginning of the millennium.[5]

Until July 2005 the Alex Dayton Seniors Activity Centre, co-founded by Ottawa Mayor Bob Chiarelli[6], was located near entrance three in the east side of the mall. For the 2007 Ontario election, the space was used as the office for provincial politician Jim Watson's re-election campaign.[7]

The mall was renovated in the mid 2000's to add seating and other "comfort" improvements. In an interview with Ottawa Business Journal, Pelletier named the renovation as one of the reasons for the mall's successful 2005 Christmas shopping season, along with the mall's new bargain store, the Sears anchor, and easy customer access.[8]

[edit] Transportation

The mall is situated at the corner of Carling and Woodroffe avenues, about 1 kilometre north of the Queensway (Highway 417). Transit service is provided by OC Transpo's routes 15, 16, 18, 85, 87, 151, 156 & 174. There is also a special Friday trip of route 186 that links North Gower to Carlingwood via Manotick and Barrhaven. It is also situated just a five-minute ride from Lincoln Fields Transit Station where Carlingwood clients can transfer to buses to Kanata, Barrhaven and Nepean Centre.

A 1996 survey found that 21% of shoppers used mass transit to get to the mall, and that Carlingwood was an exception in being accepted as primarily an automobile destination.[9]

The weekly traffic averages about 155 000 visitors per week.[10]

[edit] Stores

The shopping centre contains 120 stores and services on a single enclosed level. Its form is generally a large rectangular hallway with secondary branching halls from the six entrances. Offices and services including the management office are located on a small second level in the northwest corner of the building. There are also two small underground sections which include a Dollarama, The Bargain Shop and a Premier Fitness Centre.

The mall has two anchor tenants. The largest is a Sears department store at 179,319 sq ft (16,659 m²), the only such Ottawa outlet west of the downtown. The other anchor is a Loblaws grocery store with an area of 36,451 sq ft (3,386 m²).

The mall was formerly the home of one of the oldest and smallest Zellers stores in Ottawa until the store closed in 1999 and was replaced with a Rexall Pharma Plus. It also formerly contained a Marks & Spencer store which has been replaced by Royal Bank of Canada.[11]

The mall also contains three major banks: Scotiabank, CIBC and Royal Bank of Canada.

[edit] Hours of operation

The mall's hours of operation are:

  • Monday to Saturday: 9:30AM to 9:00PM
  • Sunday: 10:00AM to 6:00PM

Hours may change to support higher activity, such as during the Christmas season.

[edit] External links

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ a b Winter, John. Memorable Moments in Ontario Retailing.
  2. ^ Driving directions. Carlingwood.com. Retrieved on 2006-08-27.
  3. ^ National Trade Publications Inc.. "Canadian union: Mall cleaning staff locked out", CM Cleaning and Maintenance Management online, National Trade Publications Inc., 2002-10-25. Retrieved on 2006-08-27. 
  4. ^ Victory for Carlingwood Mall Cleaners - Boycott lifted. CUPE Ontario (November 13, 2002). Retrieved on 2006-08-27.
  5. ^ Murnighan, Bill (July 2003). "Organizing at a Crossroads: A Good News, Bad News Story" ([dead link] – Scholar search). Our Times. 
  6. ^ About the Mayor. Ottawa City Hall. Retrieved on 2006-08-27.
  7. ^ Tam, Pauline. "Up for the challenge", Ottawa Citizen, 28 September 2007. Retrieved on 2007-09-29. 
  8. ^ Pelletier, Denis, quoted in Harold, Kristin (January 18, 2006). "Holiday Retail Recap: Area malls ring up solid end to 2005". Ottawa Business Journal. 
  9. ^ Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc., Dr. Robert Cervero, Howard/Stein-Hudson Associates, Inc. and Jeffrey Zupan (March 1996). "Public Policy and Transit Oriented Development: Six International Case Studies" (PDF). Report 16, Volume 2. Retrieved on 2006-08-27.
  10. ^ Corporate lease. Carlingwood.com. Retrieved on 2006-08-27.
  11. ^ CBC News. "Marks & Spencer announces shutdown schedule", Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2000-11-10. Retrieved on 2006-08-27. 
v • d • e
Shopping centres in Ottawa