South Keys Shopping Centre, officially SmartCentres Ottawa South, is a

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in the

South Keys South Keys is a neighbourhood in Gloucester-Southgate Ward in the south end of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded by Johnston Road to the north, Albion Road to the east, the Airport Parkway to the west, and Hunt Club Road to the south. Accordi ...

neighbourhood of

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, Canada. It is owned and operated by SmartCentres. The power centre is built on 56 acres of land with 486,127 square feet of store space.

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serves as the mall's

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. Eight separate buildings house the centre's 20 stores and services which include supermarkets, restaurants, banks, and a

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. South Keys Shopping Centre was first opened in 1996. The property is bound by Johnston Road to the north, Bank Street to the east, Dazé Street to the south, and the

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to the west. SmartCentres notes that there are 50,638 households comprising 71,374 people within a 5km radius of the shopping centre. The average household income within this radius is .

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's Transitway runs north-south along the back of the shopping centre with

Greenboro station Greenboro is a transitway stop and future O-Train Trillium Line (Line 2) station in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located at Bank Street and Johnston Road at the north end of the South Keys shopping complex. The station has a 678-space paid park ...

serving the mall's north end and

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serving the south end. Greenboro station also features a

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and access to the

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of the

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expansion project will see South Keys station connected with the Trillium Line and the new Airport Link in 2023. The shopping centre has been the location of several minor and major crimes. At around 9:00 a.m. on July 28, 2013, the body of a deceased female was found in the ditch between the Kelsey's parking lot and Bank Street. The following day, she was identified as 28-year-old Melissa Richmond, who had been missing for the previous two weeks. It was Ottawa's seventh homicide of the year. On November 26, 2015, her husband, 53-year-old Howard Richmond, was found guilty of

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. At around 6:30 p.m. on November 23, 2018, a 27-year-old man, Yonis Barkhadle, one of three brothers who were well known to police in the city, was fatally shot in the parking lot at the north end of the mall. Since 2015, the

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has been considering redeveloping South Keys Shopping Centre into a

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area.

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