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| Coordinates | 43°26′57.1″N80°29′12.3″W / 43.449194°N 80.486750°W /43.449194; -80.486750 |
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| Address | 25 Frederick Street Kitchener,Ontario N2H 6M8 |
| Opening date | 1973 |
| Stores and services | ~6 (16 retail spaces mostly vacant or repurposed) |
| Anchor tenants | 1 |
| Floor area | Over 22,421.3 m2 (241,341 sq ft) - mixed retail, office space |
| Floors | 2 (4 with non-retail areas) |
| Website | europro |
Market Square Shopping Centre is a mall located in the downtown core ofKitchener,Ontario, Canada, whose tenancy skews to services.
Built between 1971 and 1973 on the grounds of the originalKitchener City Hall inKitchener, Ontario, Canada. It was home to anEaton's (opened in 1973 and later became aSears Canada retail store[1]), and home to theKitchener Farmer's Market from 1973 to 2004. Eaton's closed on June 30, 1997, one of the company's first locations to shut down following its restructuring announcement.[2]
A glass clock tower at the corner of King and Frederick Streets pays homage to the former city hall clock tower, which is now located atVictoria Park, Kitchener.
The mall has since declined, through the 1990s (with a half empty food court[3] with long timeMcDonald's leaving in 2015) as shoppers have fled to larger malls inRegional Municipality of Waterloo likeConestoga Mall in Waterloo orFairview Park Mall orCambridge Centre to the south.
In January 2020,Conestoga College opened an 7,600-square-metre (82,000 sq ft) campus in the building, occupying about1⁄3 of the centre's space.[4] The other major tenants weretriOS College andThe Record, the latter of which occupied a formerSears Outlet store. Few retail stores remain in the mall, which is now primarily used as office space.Nordia Inc. operated a call centre on the uppermost floor of the former Eaton's until 2019. triOS and the Record departed in the following years.
The mall has a multi-level indoor parking along Duke Street and a walkway across to Oxlea Tower (22 Frederick Street), a large office tower across Frederick Street.
The mall is now owned by Europro Real Estate, which owns a number of buildings in the city's core.[5]
Grand River Transit has a number of routes that have stops around the complex:
Bus Routes
Light Rail