Confederation Mall is a 329,128 sq. ft. shopping mall located at 22nd Street and Circle Drive in

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, Canada. The mall was originally named Confederation Park Plaza when it opened in mid-1973, at which time its anchor tenants were

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and

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. The mall was originally planned for a location on Saskatoon's east side, at the southwest corner of Clarence Avenue and Circle Drive (site of the present day Saskatoon Auto Mall), but in May 1972 Saskatoon City Council rejected the plan citing community concerns. As a result, the mall's developers looked to build on an alternate site on the city's west side. However plans for a mall in the area around what is now Confederation Park had existed at least as early as 1966. An unusual aspect of the mall is that, around the time construction began on 18 November 1972, the ''

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'', in conjunction with mall developers Trizec Equities Ltd., hosted a "You Name It" contest inviting readers to come up with a name for the mall. A Saskatoon resident won an

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flight to London and $300 for choosing the name "Confederation Park Plaza". In 1994, Woolco became

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, and around this same time the mall underwent an expansion that added a food court and a new Safeway store; the original Safeway location became part of the food court with the remaining space used for a third anchor tenant, initially a branch of the Family Video home video rental chain, and later Petland. Other stores include clothing stores, electronics, services, florist, banks and jewelers. In the summer of 2009, a new state of the art Walmart was constructed in a new power centre commercial area in the Blairmore Suburban Centre several kilometres west of Confederation Mall; the only Walmart in Saskatoon to house both a McDonald’s & a

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,(closed in 2022) the one in the mall closed after the 2009 holiday season and in 2010 was renovated to house a Canadian Tire (with

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) that opened in Spring of 2011 (in turn, the new Canadian Tire replaced a standalone location that had operated in the nearby Plaza 22 shopping centre since the 1970s) and now houses three separate retailers and a fitness centre Fit 4 Less,

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, and a Jysk, The new Canadian Tire and Marks is a standalone, as its connection to the rest of the mall was closed. This resulted in a portion of the mall being reconfigured to house a new anchor,

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, which is accessed from inside the mall. This was followed by the launch of a major interior renovation to the mall which, as of 2015, was to expand the food court which currently today houses a

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Anchors tenants

* FreshCo since 2020 * Petland since 2000 * Canadian Tire since 2011 *

since 2013 *

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since 2019

Former anchor tenants

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1973-2019 *

1973-1994 *

1994-2010 (relocated to Blairmore) * Sport Mart 2004-2011

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Anchors tenants

Former anchor tenants

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