Masonville Place

Masonville Place
Location 1680 Richmond Street North
London, Ontario
N6G 3Y9
Opening date January 2, 1985
Developer Cadillac Fairview
Management Cadillac Fairview
Owner Cadillac Fairview
No. of stores and services 138
No. of anchor tenants 4
Total retail floor area 686,000 sq ft (63,700 m2).
No. of floors 2
Website www.cfshops.com/masonville-place.html

Masonville Place (known locally simply as Masonville or Masonville Mall and branded as CF Masonville Place) is a two-story regional shopping mall located in North London, Ontario at the southeast corner of Fanshawe Park Road and Richmond Street. The mall contains over 130 stores along with several restaurants including The Keg.[1] The Masonville Place has Hudson's Bay, SilverCity Cinemas, Forever 21, and Shoppers Drug Mart as anchor stores.[2] It is owned by Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited.

Masonville Place opened on January 2, 1985.[3] It was the first multi-level shopping centre in London. It was originally anchored by Sears, Eaton's, and Loblaws. Loblaws, originally under the SuperStore Warehouse banner (used for large format Loblaw stores in the 1980s) opened on its own in late 1984, preceding the building of the rest of the mall.

Location

The shopping mall is located adjacent the transit corridor of Fanshawe Park Road and Richmond Street. It has a bus terminal for the London Transit Commission.

History

Beginnings

Masonville Place was constructed by the Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited, and opened in 1985.

Expansion

In 1991, Masonville expanded with 75 new stores and services including an indoor miniature golf course, which has since been removed, and replaced with more stores. A Zellers store was also built a few years later in 1994.

In October 1998, the Loblaws store closed and a new standalone Loblaws was opened on the northeast corner of Fanshawe Park Road and Richmond Street. This was around the same time the Eaton's store was closed due to bankruptcy, and was replaced with The Bay.

Renovations

On October 29, 2013, Sears Canada announced that it would be closing its store at the mall and five other locations throughout Canada in a bid to reduce costs.[4]

On March 29, 2016, Cadillac Fairview announced, that Masonville Place would receive major renovations during 2016.[5] The $77 million renovation will include a two-level mall expansion into the former Sears store, which previously occupied an area of approximately 127,000 square feet.[6][7] The renovations and mall expansion are expected to be completed by November 2016 and will include London's first Disney Store, Zara, Hot Topic and Aroma Espresso Bar along with The Keg, H&M and Atmosphere/Sport Chek. [8]

Stores

Anchors

See also

References

Sources
Notes
  1. ↑ Daniszewski, Hank (2016-03-15). "Parking costs drive eatery from core". The London Free Press. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
  2. ↑ "CF Masonville Place Profile". www.cadillacfairview.com. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
  3. ↑ "Masonville Place - Regional mall in London, Canada". canada.malls.com. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  4. ↑ http://www.thestar.com/business/2013/10/29/sears_canada_to_sell_leases_for_its_flagship_torontos_eaton_centre_store.html
  5. ↑ "Coming Soon A New Look". www.cfshops.com. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  6. ↑ Daniszewski, Hank (2016-03-29). "‘Relentless investment’ fortifies Masonville". The London Free Press. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  7. ↑ "$77M being invested into Masonville Place". London. CTV London. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  8. ↑ Tariq, Hamza. "ZARA, H&M coming to Masonville as part of major redevelopment". The Gazette • Western University's Student Newspaper. Retrieved 2016-03-30.

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Coordinates: 43°01′32″N 81°16′43″W / 43.02548°N 81.27874°W / 43.02548; -81.27874

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