Dead Malls of Canada - Page 75

J.OT13 · #**1481** Posted **Dec 19, 2022, 6:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

I can't remember exactly when it opened, but it was sometime in either 1990 or 1991. One of the last big downtown projects before downtown Winnipeg went to sleep for at least a decade.

The whole thing was built around that time, nothing in that complex is old.

The developer had a thing for that kind of look... here is another building he built in Winnipeg around that era

Yeah, they actually did a good job. That other pic you posted, very well done. It could have fooled me, which is kind of why I dislike replicating old styles; I'm in the "don't confuse history" camp.

MolsonExport · #**1482** Posted **Dec 19, 2022, 6:28 PM**

That shorter one is OK, but the Garry Place Mall development and towers is pretty bad

J.OT13 · #**1483** Posted **Dec 19, 2022, 6:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

That shorter one is OK, but the Garry Place Mall development and towers is pretty bad

TBF, I was near Fort Gerry mall once, and it was at night. I'd like to think that had I been there during the day, it would have been obvious it was a knock-off.

jonny24 · #**1484** Posted **Dec 19, 2022, 6:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

It's sad to see such a bland replacement (architecture, built form, whatever) for the albeit trendy 1990s design and a failing commercial mall.

Are you talking about Hamilton City Centre? I think the new project looks great

City Centre was "dead" long before it died. I moved to Hamilton in 2017 and it's always been a non-entity to me, a stretch of wall you drive past to get to King William or James North for dinner. It might as well have been parking or hole in the ground.

J.OT13 · #**1485** Posted **Dec 22, 2022, 5:45 PM**

Not quite date, but a shadow of its former self, the St. Laurent Shopping Centre. Once Ottawa's premier mall, it expanded several times, the last time in 1987 when the City built the underground Transitway station at the back, along the Queensway.

In the 2000s, they had major expansion plans that would have secured it's place as the largest mall in Ottawa however, those plans were shelved, leaving the path wide open for Rideau, Bayshore and even Les Promenades in Gatineau to not only catch-up, but surpass it with big name retails new to the Ottawa-Gatineau Market.

After the departure of Sears, Spirit of Halloween made a few appearances and now Urban Behavior taking up a small part of the fallen giant's former space. The Cinema is still around, as a second-run, and rundown, venue. A former "Cyberdome" is now a private college and all the things that made the mall unique (glassy entrances, cool steam-punk balloon art along the skylights, the fountain, interesting and colourful logo...) were all removed over the last two decades, mainly as part of a modernization effort that transformed it into yet another generic dying mall.

Here is it under construction back in 1967, from Lost Ottawa on Facebook:

Entrances, before and after renovations in 2014:

Before

https://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=...MygAegUIARDGAQ

After:

https://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=...MygCegUIARDKAQ

MolsonExport · #**1486** Posted **Dec 22, 2022, 6:53 PM**

Shopper's Dog Fart and their ugly signage.

MonctonRad · #**1487** Posted **Dec 22, 2022, 7:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Shopper's Dog Fart and their ugly signage.

Putrid perhaps, but easily identifiable from across the parking lot, so, it accomplishes it's purpose.

MolsonExport · #**1488** Posted **Dec 22, 2022, 7:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Putrid perhaps, but easily identifiable from across the parking lot, so, it accomplishes it's purpose.

yes, this is true.

MolsonExport · #**1489** Posted **Dec 23, 2022, 7:25 PM**

Does any store conjure up more thoughts of a dying mall than "Northern Reflections"?
Every dead/dying mall has one.

Acajack · #**1490** Posted **Dec 23, 2022, 7:29 PM**

The Roots ripoff

MolsonExport · #**1491** Posted **Dec 23, 2022, 7:34 PM**

I've heard that Edmonton City Centre Mall is becoming a dead mall. The only interior shots that show its deadness are on Reddit (and there are many) but I cannot repost them here.

yaletown_fella · #**1492** Posted **Dec 23, 2022, 9:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by J.OT13

Yeah, they actually did a good job. That other pic you posted, very well done. It could have fooled me, which is kind of why I dislike replicating old styles; I'm in the "don't confuse history" camp.

This could pass as being somewhere in Azerbaijan if the flag was changed.

SteelTown · #**1493** Posted **Jan 3, 2023, 11:38 PM**

Great drone shot of now closed Hamilton City Centre

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O-tacular · #**1494** Posted **Jan 3, 2023, 11:42 PM**

Southcentre Mall in Calgary is one of the more successful major malls but they just opened a flagship Ardene store that took out 3 bays. I had no idea Ardene had it in them. I also didn't know that Ardene sold women's clothing. I always assumed it was targeted at Teens and Tweens like Claire's.

Coldrsx · #**1495** Posted **Jan 4, 2023, 1:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

I've heard that Edmonton City Centre Mall is becoming a dead mall. The only interior shots that show its deadness are on Reddit (and there are many) but I cannot repost them here.

It is already there... and a shadow of its former self. It's only hanging on due to existing lease commitments and being the podium for multiple office towers, a theatre and a large food court.

The Bay leaving and COVID was the death knell.

Thankfully, there are redevelopment plans forthcoming.

ssiguy · #**1496** Posted **Jan 4, 2023, 5:55 AM**

Is Hamilton City Centre the new name for Jackson Square or are they two totally different centres?

J.OT13 · #**1497** Posted **Jan 4, 2023, 1:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Southcentre Mall in Calgary is one of the more successful major malls but they just opened a flagship Ardene store that took out 3 bays. I had no idea Ardene had it in them. I also didn't know that Ardene sold women's clothing. I always assumed it was targeted at Teens and Tweens like Claire's.

Claire's is targeted at Teen's and Tweens? What a strange choice of name (Great Aunt Claire's).

SteelTown · #**1498** Posted **Jan 4, 2023, 1:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by ssiguy

Is Hamilton City Centre the new name for Jackson Square or are they two totally different centres?

Two different centres.

manny_santos · #**1499** Posted **Jan 4, 2023, 4:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Shopper's Dog Fart and their ugly signage.

I never understood why they added that blue ellipse/oval behind the logo. It seems pointless.

ScreamingViking · #**1500** Posted **Jan 11, 2023, 12:53 AM**

More photos of the now closed City Centre (formerly Eatons Centre) in Hamilton. A multiple-tower condo complex is to be built here.
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Some of the historical elements are to be kept. The clock and bell were from Hamilton's previous city hall, demolished in the early 1960s but it stood roughly where the northern section of the mall is. They were incorporated into a tower at the mall's north-eastern entry.