Centerpoint Mall (Toronto)
 Aerial view from the north | |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 43°47′46″N 79°25′19″W / 43.796°N 79.422°W |
| Address | 6464 Yonge Street |
| Opened | June 1, 1966 |
| Management | Morguard |
| Owner | Revenue Properties Company Limited |
| Stores | 144[1] |
| 3 | |
| Floor area | 58,100 m2 (625,000 sq ft) |
| Floors | 1 |
| Parking | 2,258 |
| Website | Centerpoint Mall |
Centerpoint Mall (formerly Towne and Countrye Square) is a shopping mall located in Newtonbrook, a neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the southwest corner of Steeles Avenue and Yonge Street at the boundary of Toronto.[2] It contains 59,005 square metres (635,121 sq ft) of retail space.
The mall has a layout similar to a cross. Customers enter the Congee Queen from an exterior entrance only, as a doorway to the interior of the mall is only for staff and deliveries, allowing the Congee Queen to remain open separately from the rest of the mall. The supermarket is connected to the mall interior but shopping carts are blocked from entering the rest of the mall.
History
It was originally known as Towne and Countrye Square at its grand opening in the 1960s as an enclosed mall.[3] In 1966, the mall began operation with anchors Sayvette and Super City Discount Foods, later adding the Miracle Mart department store. Miracle Mart was converted to Canadian Tire. The Super City (later Loblaws) store was torn down and rebuilt as a two-storey Zellers. The Bay was added adjacent to Yonge Street in April 1974. The Sayvette chain went defunct in 1975 and was converted to Woolco. Woolco closed and the store was converted to a supermarket under the Loblaw Companies, first as a Super Centre, then to Loblaws, now it is a No Frills. The mall changed its name to Centerpoint Mall in 1990.[4]
The Zellers closed in 2012 when the leasehold was purchased by Target.[5][6] The location reopened as Target on March 19, 2013.[7] In early 2015, all Target stores across Canada closed. A Lowe's home improvement store opened in the former Target store in late November 2016,[8] but it had closed by the end of February 2019.[9] Replacing the Lowe's, Canada Computers store has now been open since December 14, 2019, but only using the first floor of the anchor space.[10]
On December 9, 2021, owners submitted an application to the city to permit the re-development of the property. They planned to demolish the mall over several years, with the aim of replacing it with "[a] network of new public and private streets and development blocks containing a mix of uses including residential, retail, office, a central public park, and privately-owned publicly accessible spaces".[11]
After the Bay closed all remaining stores across Canada in June 2025,[12] the two-storey department store building stood abandoned on the east side of the mall until 2026 when demolition started on it to accommodate construction of the Yonge North subway extension.[13]
Food court
Entrance 1 void
Closeup of facade
Target opened in 2013 and closed in 2015.
Hudson's Bay in 2013 with its former logo
See also
References
- ↑ "Centerpoint Mall General Information" (PDF). Morguard. Archived from the original on October 5, 2016. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
- ↑ "Centerpoint Mall - Home". Centerpoint Mall. Retrieved November 9, 2014.
- ↑ "Historicist: Living the Towne & Countrye Square Life". January 19, 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2018.
- ↑ Urback, Robyn (May 12, 2011). "Toronto malls in need of makeovers: Centerpoint Mall". BlogTO. Retrieved April 17, 2026.
- ↑ Naulls, Kevin (May 27, 2011). "Target Announces Planned Site Locations for Its 2013 Canadian Arrival". Toronto Life.
- ↑ "Zellers | Liquidation". Zellers.com.
- ↑ "Target Set to Open Additional 21 Stores in Ontario". corporate.target.com.
- ↑ "Towers Department Stores: Stores". Archived from the original on August 20, 2012. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
- ↑ Evans, Pete (November 5, 2018). "Lowe's closing 31 locations in Canada, mainly Rona stores". CBC News. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
- ↑ "Canada Computers North York Grand Opening". BlogTO. December 14, 2014.
- ↑ Connor, Kevin (January 6, 2022). "Clock Ticking on Centerpoint Mall?". Toronto Sun. Retrieved April 17, 2026.
- ↑ "Abandoned Toronto department store is now being reduced to rubble". Blogto.com.
- ↑ "Abandoned department store in Toronto mall now being demolished". blogTO. June 11, 2026. Archived from the original on June 12, 2026.