Garden City Shopping Centre (Winnipeg)

Garden City Shopping Centre is a 285,000 square-foot (according to a Bayfield Realty Advisors press release)[1] or 395,025 square-foot (total complex; according to a RioCan Investment Real Estate Investment Trust plan)[2] shopping centre at McPhillips Street and Leila Avenue in Winnipeg, Manitoba,[3] built in 1970. It opened August 12, 1970.[4] The mall consists of 75 stores and 11 restaurants on a single level. The anchor stores are Canadian Tire, Sears Canada, Winners and GoodLife Fitness.

The shopping centre is owned by Bayfield Realty Advisors.[5]

History

The shopping centre's developer was James Kelly of Toronto.[4] The centre was built in West Kildonan upon 40 acres of land.[6] Upon construction in 1969–70, at a cost of millions of dollars, a major anchor store was Simpsons-Sears, with 100,000 square feet of space. The initial plan was for 40 stores, and T. Eaton Co. Limited also purchased space in the mall.[6][7]

A major expansion began in 1974, with a 181,000 square-foot addition. Anchor stores at that time included the Simpson-Sears store and a Dominion supermarket, with plans to add an Eaton's store and a Beaver Lumber.[8] T. Eaton Co. Limited opened an 86,000 square-foot store in August 1976.[9] As of that same year, Garden City was one of the four largest regional malls in the city of Winnipeg.[10]

The Eaton's store closed in 1998, and its space was taken over by a Canadian Tire store.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Our Press", Bayfield Realty Advisors. January 2010. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  2. ↑ "Garden City Shopping Centre", RioCan. January 2014. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  3. ↑ King, Randall (5 August 2010). "Garden City Cinemas closing after 40 years", Winnipeg Free Press, p. D2.
  4. 1 2 Smith, Kenneth B. (10 July 1970). "Building and real estate: Shopping centre growth in next five years declared unlikely to equal record of past five", The Globe and Mail, p. B4.
  5. ↑ Tjaden, Tracy (18 January 2011). "Shopping malls see future in Canadian winter", The Globe and Mail, p. B13.
  6. 1 2 (27 February 1969). "Simpsons-Sears in Winnipeg", Toronto Daily Star, p. 34.
  7. ↑ (26 February 1969). "Simpsons-Sears to build 100,000-square-foot store at Winnipeg centre", The Globe and Mail, p. B3.
  8. ↑ (4 October 1974). "Inflation called key difficulty", The Globe and Mail, p. B3.
  9. ↑ (7 August 1976). "Companies in the news: Eaton", The Globe and Mail, p. 14.
  10. ↑ (21 April 1976). "Shopping centres meeting slower sales growth", The Globe and Mail, p. B16.
  11. ↑ Sherren, Reg (23 August 1999). "Eaton's closures", The National, CBC News.

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