Grant Park Shopping Centre

Grant Park Shopping Centre is a 70-shop, nearly 400,000 square foot[1] shopping centre in southwest Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Grant Park Shopping Centre
Location1120 Grant Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3M 2A6
Coordinates49.8578°N 97.1656°W / 49.8578; -97.1656
Opening date1969 (1969)
ManagementPrimaris REIT
OwnerPrimaris REIT
No. of stores and services70
No. of anchor tenants6
Total retail floor area400,000 sq ft (37,000 m2)
No. of floors2
Public transit access65 Grant Express
66 Grant
95 - Tuxedo – Riverview
Websitegrantparkshoppingcentre.com

Grant Park High School and the Pan-Am Pool are located near the mall.

Development

The land around Grant Park was first developed with the introduction of the Harte Subdivision for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1908.[2]

From the 1920s to late 1950s, the Grant Park area was the location of a Métis community known as Rooster Town.[3] The difficulty of procuring affordable housing close to other members of the Métis community led families to build their own housing on this land. Throughout the 1950s, residents were under increasing pressure from developers to relocate.[4] In 1959, the remaining residents were evicted and their homes were burnt or torn down.[5][6] Rooster Town has been described by Lawrie Barkwell, senior historian, Louis Riel Institute, as a "working-class community with a vibrant culture."[7] Recent scholarship, such as the book Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901-1961 by Evelyn Peters, Matthew Stock and Adrian Werner and an article by David G. Burley in Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine explore the long-hidden history of this community.[8][9] The University of Manitoba also hosts an online archive about Rooster Town.

Developed by Aronovitch & Leipsic, Phase I broke ground and opened in 1962 with a few detached buildings opening in 1964 and it became an enclosed shopping mall in 1969.[10]

The mall completed an extensive renovation of the common areas in 1989, and changed its marketing name from Grant Park Plaza to Grant Park Shopping Centre featuring a new logo.

The mall began a four-year renovation starting in 2012 and ending in 2016.

Stores

The eastern end of the mall was originally anchored by discount department store Woolco, constructed approximately two years after the mall first opened and subject of a lawsuit appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada.[11] The Woolco store was bought out and converted to Walmart in 1994.[12] This same location was vacated by Walmart in 2001 and replaced by Zellers.[12] This Zellers location closed on February 11, 2013.[13] The location was then occupied by Target from November 2013[14] to April 2015.[15] Canadian Tire took over roughly 75% of the space in 2016 and remainder was leased to GoodLife Fitness which opened in 2016.

As part of the renewal of Grant Park Shopping Centre and after Dominion Stores left Western Canada in 1984, the Safeway supermarket was moved to the Dominion Store space in 1989.

In the 1970s and 1980s a videogame and pinball arcade known as The Pirate's Den operated in the space now taken by the mid-mall washrooms. After home videogames became more popular and during the 1989 renovations of the mall, the arcade was closed.

Further renovations in the mid-1990s made for the opening of Winnipeg's largest McNally Robinson Bookseller location in order to compete with the Chapters retail chain.

On June 27, 2013, Empire Theatres announced that it will be selling this theatre location along with 22 others in Western Canada and Ontario to Landmark Cinemas.[16]

The mall has approximately 70 stores and services. It is anchored by Red River Co-op, Manitoba Liquor Mart, Shoppers Drug Mart, Landmark Cinemas, Canadian Tire and McNally Robinson.

The Liquor Mart at Grant Park is the largest in the province.[17] The former Target location's lease was sold to Canadian Tire and they were opened on June 23, 2016.[18]

2 new pad sites were built on the lot during 2016-2017; Cambrian Credit Union and Fionn MacCool's Pub.

References
  1. "Grant Park Shopping Centre". Malls.com. Retrieved August 28, 2019.
  2. "Harte Trail - Winnipeg Trails Association". Winnipegtrails.ca. 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  3. "U of W seeks stories of Métis neighbourhood". Winnipeg Free Press. October 12, 2012.
  4. "Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community". News.umanitoba.ca. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
  5. "Remembering Rooster Town – Public Help Wanted". University Of Winnipeg. Archived from the original on 26 February 2013.
  6. Sinclair, Niigaan (2018-10-16). "City newspapers hastened demise of Rooster Town". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
  7. "Rooster Town: the Winnipeg community that nobody remembers – The Uniter". uniter.ca. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
  8. Peters, Evelyn; Stock, Matthew; Werner, Adrian (2018). Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Metis Community, 1901-1961. Winnipeg, Man.: Univ. of Man. Press. ISBN 978-0-88755-825-2.
  9. Burley, David G. (2013). "Rooster Town: Winnipeg's Lost Métis Suburb, 1900–1960" (PDF). Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine. 42/1: 3–25.
  10. "Grant Park Plaza Ready for Inspection". Winnipeg Free Press. 26 August 1969.
  11. Clark’s-Gamble of Canada Ltd. v. Grant Park Plaza Ltd. et al. [1967] SCR 614
  12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-11-04. Retrieved 2014-11-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. Chan, Wayne (March 20, 2013). "Saying so long to the Zellers people". Winnipegfreepress.com. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  14. McNeill, Murray (October 18, 2014). "Fourth city Target opens". Winnipegfreepress.com. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  15. "Winnipeg's Grant Park Target to close by April 2". CBC News Manitoba. March 24, 2015. Retrieved August 28, 2019.
  16. "Landmark Cinemas Of Canada Announces Acquisition Of Twenty Empire Theatres". MMD Newswire. June 27, 2013. Archived from the original on July 1, 2013. Retrieved August 28, 2019.
  17. McNeill, Murray (June 3, 2011). "Shuffle in store at Grant Park". Winnipeg Free Press.
  18. "Canadian Tire to acquire 12 former Target locations". CBC News Business. May 6, 2015. Retrieved August 28, 2019.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.