Georgian Mall
Georgian Mall is the largest mall in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the east side of Bayfield Street, approximately 1.5 km (0.93 mi) north of Highway 400. Anchor stores are Hudson's Bay and HomeSense.
Georgian Mall in late 2004, prior to renovations | |
Location | Barrie, Ontario, Canada |
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Coordinates | 44°24′46.63″N 79°42′28.64″W |
Address | 509 Bayfield Street |
Developer | Cadillac Fairview |
Management | Jodi Chamberland |
Owner | RioCan |
No. of anchor tenants | 3 (2 open, 1 vacant) |
Total retail floor area | 513,000 sq ft (47,700 m2) |
No. of floors | 2 |
Website | georgianmall |
History
Georgian Mall originally opened in 1968 with Sears as its only department store and Dominion as a supermarket. Next door in a separate development was a free-standing K-mart department store. The first major expansion added a single floor Eaton's as anchor to a new two-level mall addition. (when Eaton's went bankrupt this space was divided into Sport Chek and Home Sense.) The next addition connected the mall to the K-mart building. When K-mart was bought by Hudson’s Bay Company, this space was converted to The Bay. Another former anchor was Sears, which was closed in January 2018 with the liquidation of Sears' Canadian operations.
See also
There are two other malls in Barrie:
Bayfield Mall is a smaller 70 store mall located at Bayfield and Coulter Streets just off Highway 400 and 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) from Georgian Mall. Anchored by Canadian Tire and surrounded by smaller stores with a pad like configuration as well as a bowling alley. It is managed by Avison and Young.
Kozlov Shopping Centre is a mall built in 1986 with anchors like Urban Planet (formerly Zellers), Ardene, and Metro (formerly A&P).