Centerpoint Mall (formerly Towne and Countrye Square) is a

shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually Anchor tenant, anchored by department stores. The term "mall" originally meant pedestrian zone, a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that ...

located in

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, Canada on the southwest corner of

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and

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at the boundary of Toronto.

History

Centerpoint Mall was known as Towne and Countrye Square at its grand opening in the 1960s as an enclosed mall, until the name change to its present name in 1990. In 1966, the mall began operation with anchors

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, and Super City Discount Foods. The Super City (later Loblaws) store was torn down and rebuilt as a two-storey

Zellers Zellers was a Canadian discount department retail chain and is currently a brand name owned by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). Founded in 1931 in London, Ontario, in later decades it was based in Brampton, Ontario. Zellers was acquired by HBC ...

. The Bay was added adjacent to Yonge Street in April 1974. The Sayvette chain went defunct in 1975 and was converted to

Woolco Woolco was an American-based discount retail chain. It was founded in 1962 in Columbus, Ohio, by the F. W. Woolworth Company. It was a full-line discount department store unlike the five-and-dime Woolworth stores which operated at the time. At i ...

. Woolco closed and the store and was converted to Super Centre, then to Loblaws, then to No Frills. Miracle Mart was converted to Canadian Tire. The Zellers was closed in 2012 when the Zellers leasehold was purchased by

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; the location was closed for about a year before reopening as Target on 19 March 2013. In early 2015, all Target stores across Canada closed. A

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home improvement store opened in the former Target store in late November 2016, but it had closed by the end of February 2019. A Canada Computers store has now been open since December 14, 2019 in the former Lowe's store. With of retail space, it is one of the largest malls in Toronto. On 9 December 2021, an application was submitted to the city to permit the re-development of the property. It is planned to demolish the mall over several years, with the aim of replacing it with " network of new public and private streets and development blocks containing a mix of uses including residential, retail, office, a central public park, and privately-owned publicly accessible spaces".

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