Edmonton City Centre
LocationEdmonton, Alberta, Canada
Coordinates53°32′37″N 113°29′30″W / 53.54361°N 113.49167°W / 53.54361; -113.49167
Opening dateEdmonton Centre: 1974
Eaton Centre: 1987
Edmonton City Centre: 1999
Closing dateEdmonton Centre: 1999
Eaton Centre: 1999
Previous namesEdmonton Centre (East)
Edmonton Eaton Centre. (West)
DeveloperOxford Properties (East), Eaton's and the Triple Five Group (West)
ManagementOlympia Trencevski
OwnerOxford Properties[1]
No. of stores and services170
No. of anchor tenants4
Total retail floor area75,450.5 m2 (812,142 sq ft)
No. of floors4
Public transit accessEdmonton Transit System Light rail interchangeValley Line 102 Street station
Websiteedmontoncitycentre.com

Edmonton City Centre[2] is a shopping mall in the downtown core of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, across the street (west) from Churchill Square.

History

In 1974, the City Centre Place office tower (Oxford Tower) was completed within the larger Edmonton Centre development; TD Tower was added in 1976.[3] In 1978, Oxford Tower (now MNP Tower) and the Four Seasons Hotel (now Sandman Signature Edmonton) were built on the north edge of the site. Across the street a new development was in planning by Triple Five Corporation. The original plan for what was then called Eaton Centre, announced in 1980, called for several large office and apartment towers. None of the originally designed five towers was ever built but the multi-level Eaton Centre mall and the Delta Edmonton Centre Suite Hotel were salvaged from the project by heavy civic tax subsidies.[4]

After the demise of the Eaton's department store in 1999, Eaton Centre and Edmonton Centre, formerly two independent malls, were redeveloped into one shopping complex connected by a newer and larger pedestrian bridge spanning 101 Street (that itself contains a number of shops).

On June 27, 2013, Empire Theatres announced that it would be selling this theatre location along with 22 others in Western Canada and Ontario to Landmark Cinemas.[5] On October 29, 2013, Empire Theatres closed and reopened as Landmark Cinemas on October 31, 2013.

On November 18, 2015, Edmonton City Centre announced that it planned to relocate and significantly upgrade its food court as part of a $41.3-million redevelopment investment that would revitalize the entire retail experience of the downtown property.[6] Construction was scheduled to begin in November 2015. The new food court opened on November 1, 2016,[7] and the property revitalization project would be complete by November 2017.[8] The former food court area and stores on the lower level were converted to parking.

Hudson's Bay closed on June 3, 2021. McDonald's closed on November 16, 2023.[9]

Sport Chek closed on March 12, 2023, leaving the mall to two remaining main anchors, Winners and Landmark Cinemas, as well as smaller anchors such as Shoppers Drug Mart and Dollarama.

Anchors

Former anchors

Business

ECC is home to two office towers and one unique office conversion property located on the site of the original Woodwards: TD Tower, Oxford Tower and Centre Point Place are all connected to the shopping centre by way of integrated pedway. These office properties combine for a total of approximately 665,000 square feet with the towers ranging from 24 to 28 storeys in height.

CBC

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's English and French services in Edmonton are located at Edmonton City Centre. CBC operations based at ECC include television stations CBXT-DT and CBXFT-DT; as well as the radio stations CBX, CBX-FM, and CHFA-FM.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "About Us". Oxford Properties. Archived from the original on 28 April 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
  2. ↑ "Edmonton City Centre". Retrieved July 12, 2023.
  3. ↑ Emporis - Edmonton City Centre (Oxford Tower)Edmonton
  4. ↑ Emporis - Eaton Centre, Edmonton
  5. ↑ "Landmark Cinemas of Canada Announces Acquisition of Twenty Empire Theatres". www.mmdnewswire.com. Archived from the original on 1 July 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  6. ↑ Barnes, Dan (18 November 2015). "Edmonton's City Centre mall to consolidate on three levels, add 300 parking stalls". Edmonton Journal. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  7. ↑ "City Centre Mall unveils upstairs food court | 630 CHED - Edmonton Breaking News, Traffic, Weather and Sports Radio Station". Retrieved May 13, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Edmonton's City Centre mall will get multi-million-dollar facelift". CBC News. 19 November 2015. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  9. ↑ Wakefield, Jonny (November 20, 2023). "The McDonald's in Edmonton's downtown mall has closed. What does that mean for the core?". Edmonton Journal. Retrieved November 24, 2023.
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