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.jpg) Parkway Mall entrance and parking from Ellesmere Road | |
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| Coordinates | 43°45′26″N79°18′43″W / 43.75724°N 79.31196°W /43.75724; -79.31196 |
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| Address | 85 Ellesmere Road Toronto,Ontario M1R 4B9 |
| Opening date | 1958 |
| Developer | Bregman + Hamann Architects |
| Management | First Capital REIT |
| Owner | First Capital REIT |
| No. of stores and services | Over 100 |
| No. ofanchor tenants | 4 |
| Total retail floor area | 26,105 square metres (280,991.9 sq ft)[1] |
| No. of floors | 1 retail level, plus 1 basement and 1 office level |
| Website | parkwaymall |
Parkway Mall (originallyParkway Plaza) is a community-scaleshopping centre inToronto,Ontario, Canada. It is located at the southeast corner ofVictoria Park Avenue andEllesmere Road in theMaryvale neighbourhood in theScarborough district.
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 nearbyFairview orScarborough Town Centre. The mall has always had a larger grocery store within it and for many years until the early 2000s also had aZellers discount department store.
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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."[2] Built in 1958 and designed by Bregman & Hamann, it was originally used as the last new Canadian store forGrand Union, and briefly operated as such until it became aSteinberg's when Grand Union was bought out in 1959. It later became aMiracle Food Mart, and aDominion up until 2008. It is currently aMetro 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."[3]
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