The New Sudbury Centre is a shopping mall located in
Greater Sudbury
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,
Ontario
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, Canada. It has 110 stores and of retail space.
History
Built and opened in the 1950s, the entrances to the stores in the New Sudbury Shopping Centre, was originally in a strip mall format with Woolworth and Loblaws at opposite ends, accomplished by walking on the outer perimeter of the mall. "Rue La Ronde," was the first enclosed shopping facility located in the mall which featured both a fountain and resting area. The mall has undergone many renovations since its original design. The food court area used to contain a Loblaws grocery store while a bowling alley was situated in the area of The Source. There used to be a Cochrane's hardware store in the same area.
After the bowling alley closed, Little Joe's pinball arcade opened up across from the bowling alley and became a popular entertainment establishment for the youth during the 1970s and 80s.
The Family Vision Centre is the only service/business remaining of the original mall tenants in 1972 at the New Sudbury Centre.
With the recent expansion of a Walmart into a Walmart Supercentre, New Sudbury Centre had regained the title of largest shopping mall in Northern Ontario.
[Redcliff Realty - New Sudbury Centre]
Major tenants include
Walmart Supercentre, LensCrafters, Urban Planet,
American Eagle Outfitters
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc., also known as American Eagle, is an American lifestyle, clothing, and accessories retailer headquartered at SouthSide Works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1977 by brothers Jerry and Mark Silverma ...
and
Shoppers Drug Mart
Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. (named Pharmaprix in Quebec) is a Canadian retail pharmacy chain based in Toronto, Ontario. It has more than 1,300 stores in nine provinces and two territories.
The company was founded by pharmacist Murray Koffler in 1 ...
.
The former Future Shop was originally housed inside the actual shopping mall but relocated to the site of the Sears Garage (now demolished), yet still in the complex.
Future Shop
Future Shop was a Canadian electronics store chain. It was established in 1982 by Hassan Khosrowshahi. By 1990, the chain had become the country's largest retailer of computer and consumer electronics. In January 2013, the company operated 139 l ...
was closed in 2015, which is currently occupied by Dollarama and Ardene.
In 1994, Wal-Mart bought the former
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 ...
location and occupied that location until 2005 when it built a new addition behind the old location, and demolished the old location to reconfigure the parking lot to be more user friendly.
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In 2016, the mall planned to upgrade the food court for the first time since 1984 and held its grand opening of the newly renovated food court in February 2017.New Sudbury Centre food court gets 'beautiful, fresh look'
''Northern Life/Sudbury.com'', February 28, 2017
The
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 ...
store closed on January 14, 2018 with the liquidation of Sears Canadian operations, and the space is now home to
Sport Chek
Sport Chek is the largest Canadian retailer of sporting clothing and sports equipment, with 191 stores throughout Canada as of 2020. It is the only national big box sporting goods retailer in Canada, although it is absent in the Northwest Terri ...
and
H&M.
References
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External links
New Sudbury Centre
Shopping malls in Ontario
Shopping malls established in 1957
Buildings and structures in Greater Sudbury