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Market Village Mall 
Entrance to Market Village MallLocation Markham, Ontario, Canada Opening date 1990 Developer Cedarland Properties Limited (Remington Group), Vaughan, ON Owner Remington Group No. of stores and services 170 No. of anchor tenants 19 No. of floors 1 to 2 Market Village is a mall in Markham, Ontario and is one of the largest Chinese malls in Toronto and in North America.[citation needed] Located at the corner of Steeles Avenue and Kennedy Road, it dominates approximately 325,000 square feet (30,000 m²) of retail space and consists of over 170 stores.[citation needed]
Built by Cedarland Properties Limited in 1990, it attempts to mirror and mimic a rural town Ontario, the northwest and southeast façades feature barn like and farm house designs. In the 1800s and early 1900s, the property was farmland.
Market Village was originally built as a retail addition to the Cullen Country Barns located to the west side of the new mall along Kennedy Road.
However, the new tenants of the mall were (and still are) mainly catering to Cantonese Chinese clientele and attracted few non-Chinese shoppers in the early years. Some parts of the south side of the mall was enclosed in 1995 (two storey office space was demolished during this time). Many of the original tenants have left and in their place new stores reflecting the retail trends within the Chinese community in the Greater Toronto Area.
The mall was threatened with new competition by the newer Pacific Mall, which was built on the location of the former Cullen Country Barns (demolished), but the two malls have co-existed and dominates retail in the region. Indeed, as the existing traffic and parking was already congested with the opening of Market Village, the addition of Pacific Mall has made these problems significantly worse (for instance, the underground parking in Pacific Mall is not nearly enough to handle the customers attracted by the new complex).
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Tenants
Most stores in Market Village are family run stores, but there are a few non-Chinese retailers and some stores with links to Hong Kong have been opened. Some stores, along with these in Pacific Mall, have been targeted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for selling counterfeit DVDs,video games and CDs. There are currently 149 stores in market village listed on the map at the front entrance.
A list of current and major tenants at the mall:
- Bank of Montreal - non-Chinese tenant
- HSBC - non-Chinese tenant
- Qalala
- W.Y. Trading
- My Heart
- 401 Collections
- Chois Fashion
- Devine Jewelry
- Soho
- City Hollywood Cafe
- Miu Garden Chinese Cuisine
- Station Asia Fusion Restaurant
- Gui Hua Tang
- Sam's Congee Delight
- Wonton Time
- Yan Woo Soya Bean
- Curry's Art Store - non-Chinese tenant
- Market Bill Trading
- Long Food Supermarket
- Goldfield Supermarket
- McDonald's - non-Chinese tenant
- Bell World - non-Chinese tenant
- One's Better Living
- JCY House
- Sing Tao Daily - Markham Branch
- Windsor Bakery
- Advance Optical
- Yan Woo Soya Bean - Canadian Branch of popular Hong Kong eatery
Former tenants:
- City Inn Chinese Cuisine
- Just Desserts - non-Chinese tenant
- Pro Hardware - non-Chinese tenant
- Chinese theatre
- Food Fair Supermarket
- Bank of Nova Scotia Branch - non-Chinese tenant relocated to new location southeast of Market Village
- LCBO - non-Chinese tenant
Future expansion
On June 15, 2006, Pacific Mall and Market Village announced plans for a major expansion to the south shopping complex in south Markham. An additional 400,000 square feet (37,000 m²) of retail space, a luxury hotel and a multi-level parking structure is to be built. The project was expected to begin in a year or two, and would bring the combined size of the two malls to about 1 million square feet (92,900 square meters).[1] However, that plan was delayed until late 2009 and is set to open in the early 2010s.[2]
By 2009, plans have the entire mall demolished and replaced with a larger and modern complex called the Remington Centre. It will feature a two level structure with over 800,000 square feet (74,000 m2) of retail and commercial space and a condo/hotel tower located on the southeast end.
See also
- Toronto's Chinatowns
- List of Canadian Chinatowns
- Pacific Mall
- The Landmark (Toronto)
- Splendid China Tower
References
- ^ Andrea Lau (2007-04-17). "Duelling malls". The Globe and Mail. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070414.MALL14/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Ontario/. Retrieved 2007-04-20.
- ^ Wong, Tony (2009-06-19). "A huge gamble on Markham Asian mall". Toronto Star. http://www.thestar.com/business/article/653446. Retrieved 2009-06-19.
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Coordinates: 43°49′31.8″N 79°18′12.6″W / 43.8255°N 79.3035°W
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