Fairlawn Plaza is a strip mall on Carling Avenue in Ottawa-West, Ontario, Canada. The mall opened in the 1961 when the plaza's original tenants were Steinberg's grocery store and J. Pascal Hardware. Miracle Mart was also one of the early tenants. [1]
Canadian Tire was a tenant for many years until it closed in 2009 and moved to a new super-store location at Carling and Clyde Avenue. The Royal Bank of Canada also had a branch at the plaza. Fairlawn Diner, a dry cleaners, and a beauty salon and barbershop which all closed during renovations in 2009-10. Business had been severely affected when Canadian Tire closed.
The expansion of Carlingwood, which itself had many of the same types of retail stores as Fairlawn Plaza, may be one reason for the mall's dwindling customer base. Carlingwood added an expanded PharmaPlus in recent years and Loblaws Carlingwood had a major renovation after Independent Grocer closed.
The current tenants are Shoppers Drug Mart, Staples and an LCBO which both opened in 2011. A Harvey's and Swiss Chalet will open in the near future. Sport Chek is another possible future tenant.