List of shopping malls in Toronto

The following is a list of malls in Toronto, Canada. The first enclosed shopping mall in Toronto was the Toronto Arcade in downtown Toronto. The first shopping mall of the enclosed, automobile-centred design type was Yorkdale Shopping Centre, opened in 1964. For shopping malls surrounding the city of Toronto, please see the template at the bottom of this article.

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Major shopping centres

These shopping centres each have over a hundred stores and are anchored by department stores. They are also the five largest malls in Toronto. Each provides large quantities of automobile parking spaces. With the exception of Sherway Gardens, all of these malls have direct pedestrian connections with the Toronto subway and RT.

Name Borough Major intersection Subway/RT connection Retail space (m2)
Fairview Mall North York Sheppard Avenue—Don Mills Road Don Mills 81,874
Scarborough Town Centre Scarborough McCowan Road—Highway 401 Scarborough Centre 121,467
Sherway Gardens Etobicoke The Queensway—The West Mall None 91,045
Toronto Eaton Centre Old Toronto Yonge Street—Dundas Street
Yonge Street—Queen Street West		 Dundas
Queen		 159,979
Yorkdale Shopping Centre North York Allen Road—Highway 401 Yorkdale 130,496

PATH underground shopping mall

In downtown Toronto, primarily in the Financial district, there are inter-connected shopping malls located one flight underground. The complex as a whole is named 'PATH'. The Toronto Eaton Centre is connected to the complex. The complex has 1,200 stores, and the PATH is the largest underground shopping complex in the world with 371,600 m2 (4,000,000 sq ft) of retail space.[1]

District or neighbourhood shopping centres

The district or neighbourhood level of shopping centres in Toronto are typically built around one or a few department stores or grocery supermarkets and are enclosed. These shopping centres typically provide a surrounding free parking lot. Most of these are located in the former suburbs of Toronto, where land was available for parking. There are only three shopping malls of this type within Toronto's pre-1998 city limits: Galleria Mall (at Dufferin Street and Dupont Street), Dufferin Mall (on Dufferin Street south of Bloor Street), and Gerrard Square (on Gerrard Street east of Pape Avenue).

Malls located within major office buildings

One configuration of shopping mall in Toronto is the self-contained type located within a commercial office building, sometimes around a central atrium. This type typically does not provide a surrounding parking lot. These malls typically house from a dozen to several dozen stores. Most of these are connected to a station of the Toronto subway system. In certain cases, such as the Hudson's Bay Centre, the mall exists only to connect the department store to the Toronto subway system at Bloor-Yonge station.

Open-air shopping plazas

Open-air shopping plazas are larger collections of stores built with surrounding parking areas, with parking spaces separated from the storefronts by sidewalks. These shopping centres generally serve the local surrounding area and have a large proportion of family-run businesses, some of which are ethnic.

Power centres

Power centres mainly consist of national big-box stores with large amounts of parking space separate from the stores themselves and serve a larger area than the open-air shopping plazas do.

Flea markets

The markets are housed indoors with stalls of independent vendors.

See also

References

  1. ^ City of Toronto - PATH facts