Dead Malls of Canada - Page 73

MolsonExport · #**1441** Posted **Sep 13, 2022, 6:32 PM**

Any updates on the saga of the world famous, long vacant Honeydale mall?

The last google street view still has it rotting away: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6307...7i16384!8i8192

Excellent photo tour of Honeydale mall: https://www.flickr.com/photos/vgedri...57638937143354

Proof Sheet · #**1442** Posted **Sep 14, 2022, 4:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Any updates on the saga of the world famous, long vacant Honeydale mall?

The last google street view still has it rotting away: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6307...7i16384!8i8192

Excellent photo tour of Honeydale mall: https://www.flickr.com/photos/vgedri...57638937143354

This is nearby.

https://renx.ca/mattamy-quadreal-tor...redevelopment/

The Honeydale mall must be next

If Agincourt Mall can be repurposed surely the Honeydale mall could be.

WhipperSnapper · #**1443** Posted **Sep 14, 2022, 5:19 PM**

There was a redevelopment proposal submitted at least 10 years ago now. It was a bunch of 20 storey towers on podium so it wouldn't make any sense now when you could ask for double the height and triple the square footage. Waiting probably increase the value of Honeydale Mall by $50 to 100 million. (owners ... I can't say if the ownership has been flipped and how many times)

MolsonExport · #**1444** Posted **Sep 14, 2022, 5:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by Proof Sheet

This is nearby.

https://renx.ca/mattamy-quadreal-tor...redevelopment/

The Honeydale mall must be next

If Agincourt Mall can be repurposed surely the Honeydale mall could be.

back in the glory days

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Proof Sheet · #**1445** Posted **Sep 14, 2022, 6:10 PM**

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back in the glory days

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Your concept of glory days are certainly different than mine.

Djeffery · #**1446** Posted **Sep 15, 2022, 1:06 AM**

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back in the glory days

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Wow, a classic Dodge Caravan and a Mercury Village in the same photo. History right there lol.

MolsonExport · #**1447** Posted **Sep 21, 2022, 2:37 PM**

The rise and fall of a small-town mall: An oral history of how Yellowknife’s urban shopping centre went from a shopper's paradise to a cockroach-infested retail wasteland

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thewave46 · #**1448** Posted **Sep 21, 2022, 3:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by Proof Sheet

Your concept of glory days are certainly different than mine.

It's a very Springsteen Glory Days feeling.

I mean, it's peak late-1990s/early 2000s.

Which is nostalgic for reasons, especially given how the last decade or so happened.

Anyway, the GM Dustbuster minivan in the lot is the neatest van. Like someone used the shuttles from Star Trek as inspiration.

Airboy · #**1449** Posted **Sep 21, 2022, 4:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

The rise and fall of a small-town mall: An oral history of how Yellowknife’s urban shopping centre went from a shopper's paradise to a cockroach-infested retail wasteland

cbc

Even after it was built It wasn't that popular.

J.OT13 · #**1450** Posted **Sep 21, 2022, 5:25 PM**

Independent Grocer has moved out of the Hazeldean Mall. The place is basically just a Good Life Fitness now where the Zellers/Target used to be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazeldean_Mall

MolsonExport · #**1451** Posted **Dec 15, 2022, 5:02 PM**

Woodbine Centre mall struggling in spite of recent makeovers

MolsonExport · #**1452** Posted **Dec 15, 2022, 5:06 PM**

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esquire · #**1453** Posted **Dec 15, 2022, 5:17 PM**

Presenting the obscure-even-in-Winnipeg Fort Garry Place mall. It's downtown, in the podium of a large apartment tower complex. It was built at the tail end of the 1980s development boom.

The developer went all out and designed something straight out of your grandmother's dreams. I guess it was supposed to be a high end fashion mall, but it never took off. It had a few mom and pop stores, but now most of the space has been converted to offices. Ironically, the City of Winnipeg's planning department is one of the main tenants.

This picture shows you roughly half of it.

MolsonExport · #**1454** Posted **Dec 15, 2022, 5:20 PM**

^looks like a cheap version of a Moscow subway station

thewave46 · #**1455** Posted **Dec 15, 2022, 5:20 PM**

I'm more shocked that these things don't meet the wrecking ball sooner.

esquire · #**1456** Posted **Dec 15, 2022, 5:22 PM**

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I'm more shocked that these things don't meet the wrecking ball sooner.

A lot of the standalone ones are as redevelopment proposals emerge, but a lot of the ones in more urban settings are impervious to that pressure because they are part of a larger complex. Fort Garry Place above would have bit the dust long ago if it were standalone, but it has 3 large towers on top of it...

WhipperSnapper · #**1457** Posted **Dec 15, 2022, 5:29 PM**

Went all out on the podium inside and out. The towers are commonplace stucco slabs (the observation/restaurant/thingie on the tallest notwithstanding)

Luisito · #**1458** Posted **Dec 15, 2022, 7:26 PM**

Last time i was in Halifax alot of the malls i went to were completely dead. They were still there but barely had any businesses inside anyore. Just a decade before they had been bustling with people.

This was a while, they might even be completely closed now.

ScreamingViking · #**1459** Posted **Dec 16, 2022, 2:26 AM**

Looks like the "grand" central hall of one of those wedding factories.

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Originally Posted by esquire

Presenting the obscure-even-in-Winnipeg Fort Garry Place mall.

kwoldtimer · #**1460** Posted **Dec 16, 2022, 2:35 AM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

Presenting the obscure-even-in-Winnipeg Fort Garry Place mall. It's downtown, in the podium of a large apartment tower complex. It was built at the tail end of the 1980s development boom.

The developer went all out and designed something straight out of your grandmother's dreams. I guess it was supposed to be a high end fashion mall, but it never took off. It had a few mom and pop stores, but now most of the space has been converted to offices. Ironically, the City of Winnipeg's planning department is one of the main tenants.

This picture shows you roughly half of it.

This is in the ugly apartment towers behind the Ft Garry hotel?