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Crawl the Malls: Shopping centers of the GTA
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1. Heartland Town Centre
Just west of Square One is one mother of a big box complex. At the corner of Mavis and Britania, it occupies about a good square 2 kilometers of land. With a woman friend, it takes about a full Sunday afternoon to get through only about half the…More »
2. Yorkdale Shopping Centre
"You can buy an assortment of fruit-flavoured bubble baths at The Body Shop for only $17.65. You can spend $99.99 for a skateboard or $24.99 for an anti-theft device for your skis at Collegiate Sports. At Club Monaco you can buy authentic Club Monaco…More »
3. Square One Shopping Centre
Square One is an interesting study in the development of what Washington Post journalist Joel Garreau termed an "edge city": a concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment outside a downtown core in a sub-urban area, usually serviced by a…More »
4. Toronto Eaton Centre
Toronto, ON M5B 2H1
(416) 598-8700
Category:
Shopping Centres
Neighbourhood: Downtown Core
It's fashionable to hate on the Eaton Centre, to poo poo it. Yeah, it's the Disney of retail. And many want to lay all kinds of problems with Yonge street retail because of it. But I have a hard time imagining I'd go downtown without the Eaton Centre…More »
5. Bramalea City Centre
How's that joke go? She don't look like much but she can shoe a horse. No no. She's not much to look at but she can toss a hubcap. Hrm. I really should have listened to the folksy babblings of my stroked out grandfather. Anyway, Bramalea City Centre…More »
6. Erin Mills Town Centre
I used to call this "The Christmas Mall". Not because they had an extra jolly contingent of mall santas during the ho-ho-holidays but because in the final run up to Christ-massacre this was always the least insane mall in the GTA (okay technically…More »
7. Hillcrest Mall
Driving past HIllcrest Mall it looks like a promising inclusion for the http://deadmalls.com. The whole front is just done up in Soviet era blah. No windows. No visible skylights. Lots of parking. Hrm. What to expect?
It's anchored by a fairly ghetto…More »
8. Fairview Mall
Fairway is, geographically, the antipodes of Sherway Gardens. It's smaller, less posh, but has the advantage of being a terminus on the amazingly useful Sheppard subway line. It's a two level mall with an extensive food court, albeit lacking a…More »
9. Woodbine Centre Mall
Etobicoke, ON M9W 6K5
(416) 674-5200
Category:
Shopping Centres
Neighbourhood: Etobicoke
Woodbine mall is an oddity. It's anchored by a Bay, a Sears, and a Zellers. And it has an indoor amusement park geared for kiddies. But you can't find a Starbucks, Second Cup, or Timothy's. No Gap. No Club Monaco. There is a Manchu Wok, however. And…More »
10. Sherway Gardens
Etobicoke, ON M9C 1B8
(416) 621-1070
Category:
Shopping Centres
Neighbourhood: Etobicoke
If you combine this mall with the small big box complex across the street (which includes an Old Navy, a Walmart, a Home Depot, a Chapters, etc), Sherway Gardens presents a pretty compelling shopping mecca. Sherway is what I term a "left hand mall",…More »
11. Cumberland Terrace
Toronto, ON M4W 1A7
(416) 964-1212
Category:
Department Stores
Neighbourhoods: Yorkville, Downtown Core
Cumberland Terrace was something in the late 1970s and 1980s. Opened in 1974, done up fashionably in orange and brick brown, Cumberland Terrace was a place...no no... the place to shop for upmarket clothing, furniture at DeBoer's, drop the princely…More »
12. Hazelton Lanes
What Cumberland Terrace was to the 1980s, Hazelton Lanes was to the 1990s. It reminded you why you worked so hard to get your CA down the street at the U of T.
At one time such fashion luminaries like Hermès, Ungaro, Alfred Sung, and Versace had…More »
13. Splendid China Mall
Toronto, ON M1V 4S5
(416) 293-8871
Category:
Shopping Centres
Neighbourhood: Scarborough
The signage says Splendid China Tower but the web site and site url say Splendid China Mall, so I'll go with the latter.
Anyway, north side of Steeles we have the Pacific Mall and the south side of Steeles we have the Splendid China Mall. This is…More »
14. Oakville Place
Just off the QEW at Trafalger is this regional mall. It's pretty much one long corridor, two floors, with a second level food court off the center strip. It's anchored by a Bay and Sears. Can we get another department store chain in the GTA? Like one…More »
15. Shops at Don Mills
Shops at Don Missing: This place looks like it was opened somewhat prematurely. There are a number of empty store fronts. And of course the down economy was probably a nail biter for the mall's investors. It's reminiscent of the outdoor mall concept…More »
16. Vaughan Mills Shopping Centre
Vaughan Mills mall does strike one as having been built with a Plan B in mind. If the mall thing fails, it could be quickly turned into a warehouse, a factory producing light industrial goods, a movie sound stage, or maybe even an airplane hanger…More »
17. Bayview Village Shopping Centre
North York, ON M2K 1E6
(416) 226-0404
Category:
Shopping Centres
Neighbourhoods: Bayview Village, Willowdale
I'm a geezer but nothing about this mall excites me. Maybe you have to be a female geezer? This place was probably designed to be anchored by North America's first two story Sharper Image (RIP) to attract the man geezer money. It really screams out…More »
18. Dixie Park
The Dixie Park Center is a compact three story Chinese themed food court, office, and professional complex on Dixie, just south of Eglinton. It's strategically located on the South Western tip of the high tech hub along Matheson Blvd. The Dixie…More »
19. 10 Dundas East
I'm going to be the contrarian and say I like this edifice. It's primarily a movie theater but has some sit down restaurants, a Shopper's Drug Mart, and a food court. I love the food court here. When the Eaton Centre food court is packed with people…More »
20. First Markham Place
The GTA Chinese community seems to follow a pattern of moving north as they prosper. So I guess it's no surprise there's a newer Chinese type mall almost directly north of the Pacific Mall.
What's nice about First Markham Place is it anchors the…More »
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When you're alone and life is making you lonely (49)When you're alone and life is making you lonely you can always go to one of these places. Single? Lonely? Don't despair. Look on the bright side of things. You certainly save more money. You have a luxury of time. Now's your chance to really get out there and enjoy a good cup of coffee while tackling that PLC manual or write that D20 rule book set in the Harry Potter universe. You can see a Paul Verhoeven movie guilt free while mowing down on a bunch of unhealthy snacks you've smuggled in via you backpack. You can wear a backpack. You can collect classic video game consoles or PC luggables and not have anyone shouting at you "where is that going besides the trash!" The time is nigh to get these things done before a woman enters your life and makes you mindbogglingly happy. And deprives you of your time and vital fluids. C'mon, don't be a chump. Live! |
Eating for about $5 (13)I'm not saying, of course, you're going to eat well. Or you're going to want to eat this food with another person. But when you're looking to slam down some eats for $3-$5 even in a city like Toronto you can still pig out nicely. |
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