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Opening date
  
1958

Opened
  
1958

Phone
  
+1 416-445-3108

No. of stores and services
  
Over 100

Province
  
Parkway Mall

Location
  
85 Ellesmere RoadToronto, Ontario, CanadaM1R 4B9

Developer
  
Bregman + Hamann Architects

Management
  
Credit Suisse Real Estate Asset Management

Owner
  
Credit Suisse Real Estate Asset Management

Address
  
85 Ellesmere Rd, Scarborough, ON M1R 4B9, Canada

Hours
  
Open today · 10AM–9PMThursday10AM–9PMFriday10AM–9PMSaturday9:30AM–6PMSunday12–5PMMonday10AM–9PMTuesday10AM–9PMWednesday10AM–9PMSuggest an edit

Similar
  
Eglinton Square Shopping, Bridlewood Mall, Agincourt Mall, Cedarbrae Mall, East York Town Centre

Ward parkway mall during the 1990s built in legos


Parkway Mall (originally Parkway Plaza) is a community-scale shopping centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located at the southeast corner of Victoria Park Avenue & Ellesmere Road in the Maryvale neighbourhood in the former city of Scarborough.

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Parkway Mall is more geared toward providing essential community and neighbourhood-level retail stores and services, rather than being a large-scale regional shopping destination, such as the nearby Fairview or Scarborough Town Centre. The mall has always had a larger grocery store within it and for many years until the early 2000s also had a Zellers discount department store

Santa parade parkway mall


Heritage status

In 2009, Parkway Plaza became the first post-war supermarket building to be added to the City of Toronto’s Inventory of Heritage Properties, and it was designated under the Ontario Heritage Act in May 2015.

"In the late 1970s, Parkway Plaza underwent significant alterations. The circular record store building was demolished and the stores enlarged into space previously occupied by the parking lot. The revamp turned the shopping centre in on itself. Stores that used to face the outside world were reoriented to have their windows and entrances inside the mall, a move that left the complex with a forbidding facade of service doors and blank concrete walls." Built in 1958 and designed by Bregman & Hamann, it was originally used as the last new Canadian store for Grand Union, and briefly operated as such until it became a Steinberg's when Grand Union was bought out in 1959. It later became a Miracle Food Mart, and a Dominion up until 2008. It is currently a Metro store.

"What set the Parkway apart was the design of its anchor unit, leased to Grand Union supermarkets, that was essentially a gigantic parabolic arched roof with glass walls at either end. Supported by curved wooden beams, the structure was among largest of its kind built in Canada in 1958."

Anchors

  • Metro (formerly Dominion, Miracle Food Mart and Steinberg's respectively)
  • Staples
  • Former anchors

  • Zellers (demolished)
  • References

    Parkway Mall Wikipedia