Market Square Shopping Centre (Kitchener)

Market Square Shopping Centre (Kitchener) is a former mall located in downtown Kitchener, Ontario.

Market Square Shopping Centre
Location 25 Frederick Street, Kitchener, Ontario
Opening date 1973
No. of stores and services ~6 (16 retail spaces mostly vacant or repurposed)
No. of anchor tenants 1
No. of floors 2
Website None

History

Built between 1971 and 1973 on the grounds of the original Kitchener City Hall it was home to a Eaton's (opened in 1973 and later became a Sears Canada retail store[1]) and home to Kitchener Farmer's Market from 1973 to 2004. A glass clock tower at the corner of King and Frederick Streets pays homage to the former city hall clock tower, which is now located at Victoria Park, Kitchener.

Decline

The mall has since declined in the 1990s (with a half empty food court[2] with long time McDonald's leaving in 2015) as shoppers have fled to larger malls in Waterloo Region like Conestoga Mall in Waterloo or Fairview Park Mall or Cambridge Centre to the south .

GoodLife Fitness, Nordia, and The Record are now the mall's largest tenants. There are very few retail stores as the mall mainly used as office space.

Sears Outlet store converted for space now used by The Record.

The mall has a multi-level indoor parking along Duke Street and a walkway across to Oxlea Tower (22 Frederick Street), a large office tower across Frederick Street.

The mall is now owned by Europro Real Estate, which owns a number of buildings in city's core.[3]

Tenants

Transit Connections

Grand River Transit has a number of routes that have stops around the complex:

  • Route 1 Queen-River
  • Route 4 Glasgow
  • Route 8 University/Fairview

When ION comes on line in 2018 it will be walk distance to Frederick station (Kitchener).

References

  1. ↑ https://books.google.ca/books?id=c-12CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT366&lpg=PT366&dq=Market+Square+Shopping+CEntre+Kitchener&source=bl&ots=PsEGHJ4uKO&sig=_llrjZTai0WoHbGtz-1jA6xEYVM&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Market%20Square%20Shopping%20CEntre%20Kitchener&f=false
  2. ↑ http://www.urbanspacegallery.ca/exhibits/heart-our-cities-ontarios-downtown-malls-and-their-transformations
  3. ↑ http://www.therecord.com/news-story/7090306-blockbuster-toronto-firm-buys-much-of-downtown-kitchener-now-what-/

Coordinates: 43°26′57.1″N 80°29′12.3″W / 43.449194°N 80.486750°W / 43.449194; -80.486750

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