Cambridge Centre

Location	Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Coordinates	43°23′35″N 80°19′12″W / 43.393°N 80.320°W / 43.393; -80.320
Address	355 Hespeler Road
Opening date	1973 [1]
Management	Morguard REIT
Owner	Morguard
No. of stores and services	149 [2]
No. of anchor tenants	3 (1 open, 2 vacant)
Total retail floor area	721,297 sq ft (67,010.7 m2)[2]
No. of floors	1
Website	cambridge-centre.com

Cambridge Centre is a shopping mall in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. In the 1980s, Hespeler Road became the city's major commercial area, and is now known as the Highway 24/Hespeler Road Commercial District.^[3] The main anchor store is a Hudson's Bay. Construction recently transformed the previous anchor store Target into part of the mall adding SportChek on the front side and Kingpin on the backside.

History

The NHL sized skating rink

Cambridge Centre opened in 1996, on a site previously occupied by the John Galt Centre which was constructed in 1973. A Right House department store had been located in the John Galt Centre. The original anchors of the mall were Miracle Mart (at the current Marks, Marshalls, King Pin & Sport Chek sites) and Miracle Food Mart (at the current Forever 21 store site). The 1996 conversion and expansion doubled the length of the main shopping corridor with a fountain and new food court joining the old with the new. The construction of a 2-storey The Bay Department Store as the north anchor, the area which previously housed Miracle Mart and The Right House was expanded and reconstructed for Zellers which became the south anchor, and the previous Sears Outlet Store was converted into a 10-screen Cambridge Centre Cinemas.

The mall underwent further expansion in 2002, which saw the construction of the 2 story Sears Department Store with many new stores, the relocation of the food court to the new wing and a National Hockey League-sized ice rink known as the Cambridge Ice Centre. The new wing shaped like a horseshoe connects to the main corridor and now the mall has reached its current size. Since 1996, $100 million has been invested in the enhancement of Cambridge Centre.^[4]

Community involvement

Cambridge Centre supports charities in the Waterloo Region, with a Community Kiosk that is available free of charge to registered local charities.^[4]

Anchors

• Hudson's Bay
  • Zellers (now operates as a store-within-a-store concept within Hudson's Bay)
• Indigo Books and Music
• Sport Chek
• Dollarama
• Marshalls
• Urban Behavior
• Ardene
• Galaxy Cinemas

See Also

• CF Fairview Park Mall
• Conestoga Mall

Transit terminal

Cambridge Centre Transit Terminal
General information
Coordinates	43°23′33″N 80°19′21″W / 43.3926°N 80.3225°W / 43.3926; -80.3225
Owned by	Grand River Transit
Bus routes	11
Connections	GRT buses  302  Bus  203  iXpress Maple Grove  50  Dundas  51  Hespeler  53  Franklin  56  Dunbar  60  Northview Acres  61  Fountain  64  Langs  67  Eagle-Pinebush  75  Saginaw
History
Rebuilt	December 19, 2016 (2016-12-19)

Cambridge Centre is one of the principal interchange points for Grand River Transit buses in Cambridge. The terminal was moved to a new structure outside the front entrance of the mall, facing Hespeler Road, in December 2016.^[5] GRT's South Garage is also located nearby, on Conestoga Boulevard. The terminal had previously been located on the south side of the mall, on Dunbar Road.

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