Oakridge Centre

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Oakridge Centre


Location	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Opening date	1959 1984 (renovated)
Management	Ivanhoe Cambridge
Owner	Ivanhoe Cambridge
No. of stores and services	150
No. of anchor tenants	4
Total retail floor area	575,168 ft² / 53,434.9 m²
Parking
No. of floors	2
Website	http://www.oakridgecentre.com

Oakridge Centre

Oakridge Centre's interiors

Oakridge Centre is a mall in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is located at the intersection of 41st Avenue and Cambie Street. Its focus is on fashion, and has several fine shoe, jewellery, and clothing stores. It hosts a fall fashion show every year. The mall was awarded the Georgia Straight Stars of Vancouver Readers Choice Award for the best shopping centre for 2005. It was originally opened in 1959 by Woodward's Stores which anchored the centre until it was sold to The Bay in 1993.

1 Mall Facilities
2 Anchor stores
3 Oakridge-41st Avenue Station
4 Facts

[edit] Mall Facilities

Oakridge Centre is a fairly large mall, with approximately 150 stores, from HMV music to ~H2O+. It also contains the city's only Tommy Bahama location, as well as a number of stores usually found in downtown upscale areas, such as Lacoste, Harry Rosen, Coach, and Hugo Boss. There are also two office towers in the mall complex as well as 32 urban condominiums.

Other attractions include a 3-screen Empire Theatres cinema, a children's play area, and a self-playing piano. A central food court is located near one entrance, with approximately 15 food kiosks.

The mall also hosts free space for charitable organisations, allowing approximately thirty such organisations a year to fundraise at the mall.

The Oakridge branch of the Vancouver Public Library is located downstairs from the main mall.

[edit] Anchor stores

The Bay (182,485 sq. ft. / 16,953.4 m²)
Zellers (79,679 sq. ft. / 7,402.4 m²)
Safeway (50,099 sq. ft. / 4,654.3 m²)
Empire Theatres (16,891 sq. ft. / 1,569.2 m²)

[edit] Oakridge-41st Avenue Station

The Oakridge-41st Avenue Station on the Canada Line is under construction under the plaza at the southwest corner of 41st and Cambie. In addition, the city is conducting a "master planning" process for the Oakridge Centre area which will potentially increasing retail, residential, commercial, office and community uses on the site.