Confederation Mall
Total retail floor area 329,128 sq ft (30,577.0 m2) | | |
No. of floors | 1 | |
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Website | www |
Confederation Mall is a 329,128 sq. ft.[1] shopping mall located at 22nd Street and Circle Drive in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The mall was originally named Confederation Park Plaza when it opened in mid-1973, at which time its anchor tenants were Canada Safeway and Woolco.[citation needed]
The mall was originally planned for a location on Saskatoon's east side, at the southwest corner of Clarence Avenue and Circle Drive (site of the present day Saskatoon Auto Mall), but in May 1972 Saskatoon City Council rejected the plan citing community concerns. As a result, the mall's developers looked to build on an alternate site on the city's west side.[2] However plans for a mall in the area around what is now Confederation Park had existed at least as early as 1966.[3][4]
An unusual aspect of the mall is that, around the time construction began on 18 November 1972,
In 1994, Woolco became
In the summer of 2009, a new state of the art Walmart was constructed in a new power centre commercial area in the
Anchors tenants
- FreshCo since 2020
- Urban Cellars since 2023
- Petland since 2000
- Canadian Tire since 2011
- Winners since 2013
- Anytime Fitness since 2019
Former anchor tenants
- Canada Safeway 1973-2019 (became FreshCo)
- Woolco 1973-1994 (became Walmart)
- Walmart 1994-2010 (relocated to Blairmore)
- Sport Mart 2004-2011
- Family Video (Later VHQ) 1994-2003
See also
References
- ^ Confederation Mall
- ^ Cooney, Tom and Julian Rachey (3 June 1972). "The Mall That Never Was...Now a Boon for City?". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
- ^ "Dundonald suburban area studied by city planners". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. July 26, 1966. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
- ^ The 1974 National Film Board of Canada documentary, Saskatoon: Land and Growth Control (available on nfb.ca) has the developers and City of Saskatoon Planning officials state the east side location was rejected primarily due to a lack of utility services and an abundance of undeveloped commercial space on the east side of the city, and the west side location was offered by the City due to there being a deficit of retail in that part of the city and plans being in place for extensive residential development adjacent to the substitute location in the short term. Indeed, development would occur in six neighbourhoods on all sides of the mall over the next decade, whereas residential development to the south and east of the rejected site did not begin until after the end of the century.
- ^ "West side mall officially launched (archived on Newspapers.com)". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. 18 November 1972.
- ^ "Trizec Equities advertisement (archived on Newspapers.com)". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. 23 November 1972.
- ^ www.confederationmall.ca http://www.confederationmall.ca. Retrieved February 3, 2007.
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(help)[title missing] - ^ MacPherson, Alex (August 5, 2015). "Confederation Mall begins major renovation". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. Retrieved May 2, 2018.