Garden City Shopping Centre (Winnipeg)
| Location |
2305 McPhillips Street Winnipeg, Manitoba R2V 3E1 |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 49°57′03″N 97°08′42″W / 49.9508°N 97.1449°WCoordinates: 49°57′03″N 97°08′42″W / 49.9508°N 97.1449°W |
| Opening date | August 12, 1970 |
| Developer | James Kelly |
| Management | RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust |
| Owner | Bayfield Realty Advisors |
| No. of stores and services | 75 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 |
| Total retail floor area | 285,000 square feet (26,500 m2) |
| No. of floors | 1 |
| Website | Official website |
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 on August 12, 1970.[4] The mall consists of 75 stores and 11 restaurants on a single level. The anchor stores are Canadian Tire, Dollarama, 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
- ↑ "Our Press", Bayfield Realty Advisors. January 2010. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
- ↑ "Garden City Shopping Centre", RioCan. January 2014. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
- ↑ King, Randall (5 August 2010). "Garden City Cinemas closing after 40 years", Winnipeg Free Press, p. D2.
- 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.
- ↑ Tjaden, Tracy (18 January 2011). "Shopping malls see future in Canadian winter", The Globe and Mail, p. B13.
- 1 2 (27 February 1969). "Simpsons-Sears in Winnipeg", Toronto Daily Star, p. 34.
- ↑ (26 February 1969). "Simpsons-Sears to build 100,000-square-foot store at Winnipeg centre", The Globe and Mail, p. B3.
- ↑ (4 October 1974). "Inflation called key difficulty", The Globe and Mail, p. B3.
- ↑ (7 August 1976). "Companies in the news: Eaton", The Globe and Mail, p. 14.
- ↑ (21 April 1976). "Shopping centres meeting slower sales growth", The Globe and Mail, p. B16.
- ↑ Sherren, Reg (23 August 1999). "Eaton's closures", The National, CBC News.