Georgian Mall is the largest mall in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the east side of Bayfield Street, approximately 1.5 km (0.93 mi) north of Highway 400. Anchor stores are Hudson's Bay and HomeSense.
 Georgian Mall in late 2004, prior to renovations | |
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| Location | Barrie, Ontario, Canada |
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| Coordinates | 44°24′46.63″N 79°42′28.64″W / 44.4129528°N 79.7079556°W |
| Address | 509 Bayfield Street |
| Developer | Cadillac Fairview |
| Management | Jodi Chamberland |
| Owner | RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust[1] |
| No. of anchor tenants | 2 |
| Total retail floor area | 513,000 sq ft (47,700 m2) |
| No. of floors | 2 |
| Website | georgianmall |
History
editGeorgian Mall originally opened in 1968 with Sears as its only department store and Dominion as a supermarket. Next door in a separate development was a free-standing Kmart department store. The first major expansion added a single floor Eaton's as anchor to a new two-level mall addition. (when Eaton's went bankrupt this space was divided into Sport Chek and HomeSense.) The next addition connected the mall to the Kmart building. Kmart was later converted to The Bay.[2] Another former anchor was Sears Canada, which was closed in January 2018.[3]
References
edit- ^ "RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust Announces Firm Contract on Georgian Mall in Barrie, Ontario". March 6, 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-03-06.
- ^ "Car parked out front of the newly opened K-Mart Department Store. K-Mart would eventually become park of the Georgian Mall. Today, Hudson Bay occupies this property".
- ^ "Sears in Georgian Mall to close after final weekend". BarrieToday.com. January 14, 2018.
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