Bridlewood Mall

Bridlewood Mall is a shopping centre located in the L'Amoreaux neighbourhood in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[1] Its anchors include Shoppers Drug Mart, Dollarama, Price Chopper, and Metro.

Bridlewood Mall
Coordinates43°47′54″N 79°19′06″W
Address2900 Warden Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M1W 2S8
Opening date1975
No. of stores and services81
No. of anchor tenants4
Total retail floor area35,060 m2 (377,400 sq ft)
No. of floors2
Websitewww2.bridlewoodmall.com

History

Bridlewood Mall was built in 1975 and redeveloped from 1998 to 1999. The mall takes its name from Bridlewood area to the south and the horse farm owned by Harry C. Hatch from 1927 to 1946. A small cemetery from the mid-1800s was incorporated as a memorial garden in the parking lot.[2]

Toronto Public Library's Bridlewood Branch

The mall began with four big-box store anchors: Towers,[3] Kmart, Food City, and Dominion. The Towers chain was bought by Zellers in 1990 and the store was closed in 1991. Metro Inc. bought Dominion stores in December 2008, and the Dominion store was converted into a Metro store. Zellers went into liquidation on December 26, 2012, and it closed in March 2013. During that time, Condos were proposed at the northern side of the mall, before being shelved by 2016. A Target store was supposed to open at the location where the Zellers store had been (this space is diminutive and it was said that it would be expanded), but all construction activity was cancelled due to Target's departure from Canada in April 2015. Space became Stitches, a discount clothing outlet in 2016, before its closure in 2019. A few months after, Price Chopper was announced and closed on December 19, 2020. In favour of an Asian supermarket (C&C Supermarket) that is set to open somewhere in 2021.

Retail mix

The mall is a mix of small independent businesses, chain stores, a public library, a factory outlet and three grocery stores. The mall has a number of fast food chain locations.[4]

References
  1. "Location & Map - Bridlewood Mall". Bridlewood Mall. Archived from the original on 14 July 2007. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  2. Bateman, Chris (12 November 2014). "There are 100 graves in the parking lot of this mall". Spacing. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  3. http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthread.php/18591-Department-Stores-then-and-now
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-08-15. Retrieved 2017-03-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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