Station Mall

The Station Mall, located in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, is the second largest shopping mall in Northern Ontario, trailing just behind the New Sudbury Centre in Greater Sudbury in area, while also lagging behind the Intercity Shopping Centre in Thunder Bay in number of stores. Station Mall has 97 stores and 555,000 square feet (51,600 m2) of retail space on one level.[1] Built in 1973, the mall has since undergone two major expansions. Its major tenants include 52,000 square feet (4,800 m2) Galaxy Cinemas movie theatre complex. The mall is located on the waterfront in downtown Sault Ste. Marie, and is roughly five minutes away from the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge to the United States. The Sault Ste. Marie railway station is located in the mall's parking lot.

Station Mall
Coordinates46.512°N 84.339°W / 46.512; -84.339
Address293 Bay Street
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
P6A 1X3
Opening dateOctober 1973
No. of stores and services97
No. of anchor tenants4
Total retail floor area555,000 square feet (51,600 m2)
Websitethestationmall.com

History

Station Mall opened in October 1973 with 284,000 square feet of retail space and 70 tenants. It underwent two expansions in 16 years, in 1981 and 1989, adding more than 200,000 square feet of additional retail space.[2] In 2000, the 52,000-square-foot Galaxy Entertainment Complex was opened on the waterfront side of the mall. The Complex includes a 12-screen, 2,400 seat movie theatre.[3] The mall underwent a major renovation project, adding large format stores and revamping the interior. 2011 saw a number of smaller stores combined for a new Sport Chek location. The small former Zellers location reopened in 2012 as a smaller Walmart Supercentre. On November 25, 2013, Galaxy Cinemas downsized from 12 screens to 7 screens in order to make room for H&M.[4] In October 2017, Sears Canada permanently closed their Station Mall store, leaving Coles, Lakeshore Drug Mart, Laura Secord and the Vacation Station as the only remaining original tenants of the mall. In May 2019, Walmart announced that its store in the mall would close in June of that year. This left the mall without any major anchor stores.

Anchor tenants

Former tenants

References
  1. "Station Mall". Algoma Central Corporation. Archived from the original on November 6, 2002.
  2. "Station Mall ready for new tenant and more is on the way". Sault Star. 2012. Archived from the original on March 25, 2012.
  3. "Algonet.com". Archived from the original on November 6, 2002.
  4. "H&M coming, Galaxy cuts screens". Sault Star. November 22, 2013. Archived from the original on December 8, 2013.
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