Burlington Mall (Canada)
- For the shopping mall in Massachusetts, see Burlington Mall (Massachusetts).
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| Location |
777 Guelph Line Burlington, Ontario, Canada |
|---|---|
| Opening date | 1968 |
| Owner | Primaris Reit |
| No. of floors | 2 |
| Parking | 4,623 |
| Website | Official website |
The Burlington Mall is a 721,000 square feet (67,000 m2) shopping mall[1] located in Burlington, Ontario, is owned by RioCan Management Inc., and was owned until mid-2011 by Ivanhoe Cambridge. It has two floors, the upper floor covers the wing leading to the food court, the floor above the food court area, and the second floor of the Bay. The mall opened its doors in 1968. The stores at the Burlington Mall include The Bay, Homesense, Sunrise Records and Winners. The Burlington Mall is located at the intersections of Guelph Line, Fairview and Prospect Streets, south of the QEW.
Anchors
- The Bay 144,953 sq ft (13,466.6 m2)
- Canadian Tire 113,144 sq ft (10,511.4 m2)
- Goodlife Fitness 58,062 sq ft (5,394.1 m2)
- HomeSense 24,881 sq ft (2,311.5 m2)
- Old Navy 26,168 sq ft (2,431.1 m2)
- Sport Chek 18,477 sq ft (1,716.6 m2)
- Winners 28,578 sq ft (2,655.0 m2)
- Zellers (1986-2012) 28,556 sq ft (2,652.9 m2)
- Target (2013-2015)
Services
On the first floor there are retail stores and on the second floor there are Medical, Dental, Professional offices. Just outside the mall to the south there is a Farmers Market. The Farmers Market is held from the first Wednesday in May till late Saturday in October, the days of operation of the Farmers Market are Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. The Burlington Mall Farmers' Market has been serving Burlington since 1959.[2]
Former anchors
The Burlington Mall has seen several anchor stores come and go. Sears, originally Simpsons-Sears, used to occupy the current The Bay location. When the Hudson's Bay Company decided to convert all of their Simpson's stores to Bay stores, the local result would have been two Bay stores in the nearby Mapleview Centre, so Sears moved from Burlington Mall to one of the Bay locations at Mapleview Centre, and The Bay took over the old Sears location Robinson's was bought out by and renamed Zellers in the early 1990s. The old Dominion Grocery Store was converted into the old location of the food court and a BiWay store, and is now the new location of HomeSense. The old Eaton's store was converted into a new, much bigger food court and Old Navy downstairs and a Goodlife Fitness Club upstairs. The Canadian Tire store, which occupies a separate building on the mall property, used to be a Kmart and before that a split Kmart/A&P. It is another mall with a Canadian Tire store that used to be a Kmart until Kmart's withdrawal from Canada in 1998 (Place Vertu in Montreal is the other). Up until the late 1990s there was a small three-screen Famous Players movie theatre which has since become a Sport Chek.
Two years back on one side of the mall there was a Radioshack and on the other side of the mall was The Source. This was a few years after Radioshack ceased operations in Canada.
Zellers closed in 2012 and replaced by Target. However, Target closed in 2015.
Notes
- ↑ Powell, Naomi. "$80M Package Right on Time; Headquarters complex for UPS is Burlington's biggest business site". Hamilton Spectator. May 7, 2005. Pg. A03.
- ↑ Bunyan, Sandy. "Beat the summer; Cool treats from local produce are great for the entire family". Toronto Star. July 28, 2005. Pg. BL06.
References
- Ladurantaye, Steve. "Primaris Retail REIT buys five shopping centres". Globe and Mail. May 24, 2011
- Song, Vivian. "Bereaved mom: Docs should pay; Tracey Smith says more must be done to stop disabled drivers". Toronto Sun. September 29, 2005. Pg. 39.
- Song, Vivian. "Too old for the road? Driver, 84, failed to stop; Some urge for drivers over 65, but seniors cry 'discrimination'". Edmonton Sun. March 20, 2006. Pg. 30.