Fairview Mall

Coordinates: 43°46′40″N 79°20′40″W / 43.77778°N 79.34444°W / 43.77778; -79.34444

CF Fairview Mall
Location 1800 Sheppard Avenue East
Toronto, Ontario
M2J 5A7
Opening date 1970 (1970)
Developer Fairview Corp. of Canada Ltd
Management Cadillac Fairview
Owner Cadillac Fairview & Ivanhoé Cambridge
No. of stores and services 190
No. of anchor tenants 4 (3 open, 1 in the process of redevelopment)
Total retail floor area 881,287 ft² (81,874 m²)
No. of floors 2 retail levels, plus 1 office and cinema level
Public transit access Don Mills
Website Fairview Mall

Fairview Mall (corporately designated CF Fairview Mall)[1] is a large shopping centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada of about 80,000 m2 (860,000 sq ft). Opened in 1970, the centre has over 180 stores, offices and a cinema complex. It is located several kilometres north-east of downtown, at the northeast corner of Don Mills Road and Sheppard Avenue East in the former borough of North York.

Location in Toronto

Description

The mall is on two levels east to west with the former Sears at the west end that will house a new Indigo Books in Summer/Fall 2018 and the Hudson's Bay at the east. Its 170 stores include numerous clothing stores, speciality shops and kiosks.[2] The mall also has a multiplex cinema, a food court and a few restaurants connected to the mall.[2] The shopping centre also provides a personal style program that offers clients individual image consultations, personal shopping sessions, and other customized services for a fee.[3]

Nearby, the Toronto Public Library's Fairview Public Library branch is located to the north of the mall. A community health centre is located next to the mall along Don Mills Road. It includes a pharmacy, various doctors offices and dentist offices, and eye exam clinics.

Fairview Mall is located near the intersections of two major highways: Highways 401 and 404. The mall is surrounded on all sides by parking lot and parking garages. Parking is free. The shopping centre is also served by a Toronto Transit Commission subway line and a York Region bus rapid transit line.

The mall is jointly owned by Cadillac Fairview (50%) and Ivanhoé Cambridge (50%),[4] two of Canada's largest real estate property managers and developers. Cadillac Fairview Corporation also owns and operates Fairview Park Mall in Kitchener, Ontario, and co-owns Fairview Pointe-Claire (Centre Fairview Centre) with Ivanhoé Cambridge, in Pointe-Claire, Quebec.

History

Fairview Mall opened in 1970 with The Bay and Simpsons as its department store anchors, and at the time was the fourth fully enclosed, as well as the first multi-level, shopping centre in Metropolitan Toronto. In 1991, the Hudson's Bay Company sold its Simpsons store at Fairview Mall to Sears Canada.

From 1987 to 1989, the Cadillac Fairview Corporation and previous co-owner Markborough Properties Ltd spent CAD$90M to provide Fairview Mall's first major expansion. Renovations at that time included a glass-tiered ceiling, similar to Toronto's Eaton Centre, which opened much of its interior to natural lighting.[5]

In the 1990s, a major portion of the shopping centre's parking lot was redeveloped into a large bus terminal as part of the Toronto Transit Commission's (TTC's) Don Mills subway station (the eastern terminus of Toronto's new Sheppard subway line), and also as the southern terminus of York Region Transit's Viva Green bus rapid transit line.

In late 2008, Fairview Mall completed a CAD$90 million (previously planned as $84 million) three-phase full renovation and redevelopment project which had been started in July 2006. The redevelopment phases included an expanded Shoppers Drug Mart and a large format Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) store. The food court was moved to the lower level under a 60-foot (18 m) high skylight near The Bay. All entrances to the mall were updated to incorporate hands-free technology and the common areas inside the centre were transformed with greater open spaces and wood finishes. Elevators serving the third floor offices were added for the first time, located near entrance #4.

In 2009, retailers Bath & Body Works, Forever 21, Sephora, Hollister Co., and Zara opened within the mall.

The facade along Sheppard Avenue received a complete facelift by Fall 2009, including Fairview Mall's new "dining experience" area. [6] The Rainbow Cinema had originally been an older style Cineplex theatre.

The Sears store closed in late 2017 as part of the liquidation of Sears Canadian operations.[7] Part of the location will become Indigo Books in Summer/Fall 2018, a relocation of the Chapters at Bayview Village.

Anchors and major stores

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Cadillac Fairview to rename Eaton Centre, other Canadian shopping centres". Retrieved 2016-09-13.
  2. 1 2 "CF Fairview Mall | Mall Stores". Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  3. ↑ The New York Times Travel Guide, New York Times online, retrieved 2009-04-14;
  4. ↑ Ivanhoé Cambridge corporate website
  5. ↑ Brennan, Pat, (1986) Fairview Mall to get major expansion, Toronto Star, 27 August 1986, pg.E3 (subscription);
  6. ↑ Stores: Closed or Temporarily Relocated Stores Archived February 27, 2009, at the Wayback Machine., Fairview Mall website, retrieved 2008-06-29;
  7. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/10/10/sears-canada-to-ask-court-to-shut-all-remaining-stores_a_23238899/
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