Southgate Centre is a
shopping centre
A shopping center (American English) or shopping centre (Commonwealth English), also called a shopping complex, shopping arcade, shopping plaza or galleria, is a group of shops built together, sometimes under one roof.
The first known collec ...
located in south
Edmonton
Edmonton ( ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Edmonton is situated on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, which is surrounded by Alberta's central region. The city ancho ...
,
Alberta
Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...
, Canada, covering just under 90,000 square metres. It contains 165 retailers including
The Bay,
Aritzia
Aritzia LP is a Economy of Canada, Canadian women's fashion brand founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, by Brian Hill (CEO Aritzia), Brian Hill in 1984. Aritzia sells a variety of lifestyle apparel through various upscale retail stores acro ...
,
Zara,
Michael Kors
Michael David Kors (born Karl Anderson Jr. August 9, 1959) is an American fashion designer. He is the chief creative officer of his brand, Michael Kors, which sells men's and women's ready-to-wear, accessories, watches, jewelry, footwear, and f ...
,
Browns Shoes
Browns Shoes Inc. is a Canadian fashion footwear retailer that owns and operates 70 stores across Canada under a variety of footwear brands. The company's headquarters is based in the Montreal borough of Saint-Laurent, Quebec.
History
Browns S ...
and Edmonton's only
Restoration Hardware
RH (formerly Restoration Hardware) is an upscale American home-furnishings company headquartered in Corte Madera, California. The company sells its merchandise through its retail stores, catalog, and online. As of August 2018, the company operate ...
and
Crate & Barrel
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.
Apple
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opened a second store in Edmonton at Southgate Centre on May 28, 2010, and Edmonton's first
Lego
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store opened in June 2013. The centre is located adjacent to
Whitemud Drive
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and 111 Street, and is located across from a transit bus station and the
Southgate LRT Station.
Following major expansion, the mall marked its reopening in August 2009, including a new
food court
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and added parking. These expansions included 40 new stores under a new two-level parking deck and a station on the expansion of the
Edmonton Light Rail Transit
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system, whose opening ceremony was on April 24, 2010.
An
Edmonton Public Library
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branch operated until 2002, when it relocated to nearby Whitemud Crossing.
The mall is owned 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 ...
, a subsidiary of the
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
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.
The mall is currently undergoing a $93 million expansion which will see the former
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 ...
space repurposed as a new mall common area with three floors, with anticipated completion in 2022.
Anchors
As of August 2022 the mall has two anchor tenants:
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Hudson's Bay opened with the mall in 1970
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American Eagle
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Former tenants
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Sears Canada
Sears Canada Inc. was a publicly-traded Canadian company affiliated with the American-based Sears department store chain. In operation from 1952 until January 14, 2018, and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, the company began as Simpsons-Searsâ ...
(2000-2018) former
Woodward's
Woodward's Stores Ltd. was a department store chain that operated in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, for 101 years, before its sale to the Hudson's Bay Company.
History
Charles Woodward established the first Woodward store at the corner o ...
/
Eaton's
The T. Eaton Company Limited, later known as Eaton's, was a Canadian department store chain that was once the largest in the country. It was founded in 1869 in Toronto by Timothy Eaton, an immigrant from what is now Northern Ireland. Eaton's grew ...
, opened September 1, 2000, closed January 8, 2018, replaced with Big Comfort on July 21, 2018-Now Closed
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Edmonton Public Library
The Edmonton Public Library (EPL) is a publicly funded library system in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, available for use by any member of the public. Library cards are free to all Edmontonians; as part of its centennial in 2013, the Edmo ...
– closed 2002, now
Dollarama
Dollarama is a Canadian dollar store retail chain headquartered in Montreal. Since 2009 it is Canada's largest retailer of items for five dollars or less. Dollarama has over 1400 stores and has a presence in every province of Canada; Ontario has ...
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Eatons
The T. Eaton Company Limited, later known as Eaton's, was a Canadian department store chain that was once the largest in the country. It was founded in 1869 in Toronto by Timothy Eaton, an immigrant from what is now Northern Ireland. Eaton's grew ...
(1993-1999) – closed 1999, replaced with
Sears Canada
Sears Canada Inc. was a publicly-traded Canadian company affiliated with the American-based Sears department store chain. In operation from 1952 until January 14, 2018, and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, the company began as Simpsons-Searsâ ...
in 2000
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Woodward's
Woodward's Stores Ltd. was a department store chain that operated in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, for 101 years, before its sale to the Hudson's Bay Company.
History
Charles Woodward established the first Woodward store at the corner o ...
(1970-1993) – opened with the mall in 1970, closed 1993-replaced with
Eatons
The T. Eaton Company Limited, later known as Eaton's, was a Canadian department store chain that was once the largest in the country. It was founded in 1869 in Toronto by Timothy Eaton, an immigrant from what is now Northern Ireland. Eaton's grew ...
which closed in 1999
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Woodward's Food Floor (1970-1993) - opened with the mall in 1970, closed 1993, replaced with
Safeway
Safeway is an American supermarket chain founded by Marion Barton Skaggs in April 1915 in American Falls, Idaho. The chain provides grocery items, food and general merchandise and features a variety of specialty departments, such as bakery, d ...
*Big Comfort - former
Woodward's
Woodward's Stores Ltd. was a department store chain that operated in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, for 101 years, before its sale to the Hudson's Bay Company.
History
Charles Woodward established the first Woodward store at the corner o ...
/
Eaton's
The T. Eaton Company Limited, later known as Eaton's, was a Canadian department store chain that was once the largest in the country. It was founded in 1869 in Toronto by Timothy Eaton, an immigrant from what is now Northern Ireland. Eaton's grew ...
/
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 ...
, opened on July 21, 2018 for a short time, closed, now under construction. Set to become a whole new space with small retail stores in 2022
History and anniversary
On August 12, 2010, Southgate celebrated the 40th anniversary of its opening. When the centre opened with
Woodward's
Woodward's Stores Ltd. was a department store chain that operated in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, for 101 years, before its sale to the Hudson's Bay Company.
History
Charles Woodward established the first Woodward store at the corner o ...
, Woodward's Food Floor and The Bay, it was at the time the largest shopping centre west of Toronto and the first centre built in Alberta that housed two anchor department stores. In 1993, Woodward's went bankrupt; its space was converted to
Eaton's
The T. Eaton Company Limited, later known as Eaton's, was a Canadian department store chain that was once the largest in the country. It was founded in 1869 in Toronto by Timothy Eaton, an immigrant from what is now Northern Ireland. Eaton's grew ...
, which left Heritage Mall. In addition, Safeway occupied the food floor of the former Woodward's. By 1999, Eaton's went bankrupt and its space became a Sears the following year.
References
External links
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Ivanhoé Cambridge Leasing Fact Page
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Shopping malls in Edmonton
Shopping malls established in 1970
Tourist attractions in Edmonton
Ivanhoé Cambridge