Oshawa Centre is a two-storey
shopping mall
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located in the city of
Oshawa,
Ontario
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, Canada. Located at King Street and Stevenson Road, it is the largest mall in
Durham Region
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and the largest in Ontario east of
Toronto
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with over 230 retail stores and public services. Its Executive Office complex includes the
Ministry of Health of Ontario.
The Oshawa Centre is owned and managed by
Ivanhoé Cambridge
Ivanhoé Cambridge Inc. is a Canadian real estate company based in Montreal, Quebec. With assets around the globe, its areas of activity are investment, development, asset management, operations and leasing. The company's real estate portfolio c ...
. One of
Durham Region Transit
Durham Region Transit (DRT) is the regional public transit operator in Durham Region, Ontario, Canada, east of Toronto. Its headquarters are at 605 Rossland Rd East in Whitby, Ontario, and there are regional centres in Ajax, Whitby, and Oshawa. I ...
's bus terminals is located outside of the mall's south-east entrance, from which there are regular bus services to
Oshawa GO Station
Durham College Oshawa GO station is a station for commuter rail, passenger rail and regional bus services in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. It is the terminal station for the Lakeshore East line of GO Transit and serves Via Rail's ''Corridor'' service, ...
,
Whitby GO Station
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, and the campuses of
Durham College
Durham College of Applied Arts and Technology is located in the Durham Region of Ontario, Canada, with a campus co-located with Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, a second campus in Whitby, and community employment services in Uxbridge, Por ...
, among other destinations.
History
The shopping mall opened as a shopping plaza in 1956 and was enclosed in 1968.
Ivanhoé Cambridge had the grand opening of the renovated and expanded a portion of the mall on September 29, 2016. The renovation and expansion project began in the summer of 2013 which included 60 additional stores within the mall. In 2014, Zellers was torn down to make room for what is now parking space. The former 1950s-themed food court was replaced with a new 1000-seat food court. The food court was relocated to the east section of the mall, in the new addition.
Former large retailers at Oshawa Centre included:
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Zellers
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(closed and torn down due to renovation) and was originally supposed to be a new
Target
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Physical items
* Shooting target, used in marksmanship training and various shooting sports
** Bullseye (target), the goal one for which one aims in many of these sports
** Aiming point, in field artillery, f ...
store, but never came to fruition.
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Sears
Sears, Roebuck and Co. ( ), commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began a ...
(closed in 2018 with the liquidation of Sears Canadian operations)
—vacant.
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Mark's Work Wearhouse
Mark's (known as L'Équipeur in Quebec) is a Canadian clothing and footwear retailer specializing in casual and industrial wear. Beginning in 1977 as Mark's Work Wearhouse in Calgary, Alberta, it evolved from an industrial accessories deale ...
(Moved across the street beside the
Canadian Tire)
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Eaton's (closed down in the mid-90s)
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Famous Players
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(closed down when a new Cineplex theatre opened in North Oshawa)
The former Westmount Public School, a heritage building built in 1925, was acquired in 1988 and was demolished in September 2018 to make way for the mall's future expansion.
See also
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List of largest enclosed shopping malls in Canada
Greater than 70,000 m2
The following is a list of Canada's largest enclosed shopping malls, by reported total retail floor space, or gross leasable area (GLA) with and over. In cases where malls have equal areas, they are further ranked by the n ...
References
External links
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{{Shopping Malls in the Golden Horseshoe
Buildings and structures in Oshawa
Ivanhoé Cambridge
Shopping malls established in 1956
Shopping malls in Ontario
Tourist attractions in the Regional Municipality of Durham
1956 establishments in Ontario