Kingsway Mall
Kingsway Mall
LocationEdmonton, Alberta, Canada
Coordinates53°33′42″N 113°30′20″W / 53.56167°N 113.50556°W / 53.56167; -113.50556
Opening date1976
Previous namesKingsway Garden Mall
ManagementOxford Properties Group
OwnerOMERS Realty Corp.
No. of stores and services174
No. of anchor tenants7[1]
Total retail floor area977,880 square feet (90,848 m2)[2]
No. of floors2+basement & offices (on 3rd floor)
Parking3,755 stalls
Public transit accessEdmonton Transit System Light rail interchangeMetro Line Kingsway/Royal Alex station Light rail interchangeMetro Line NAIT station
Websitekingswaymall.com

Kingsway Mall (formerly Kingsway Garden Mall) is a shopping centre located in central Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The mall, constructed in 1976, completed a $70-million redevelopment from 2007–2009. The "Revealing" held at the weekend of 13 November 2009, saw the name change, introduced the public to the new mall, and opened the winter shopping season. Bordered by three major commuter roads (109 Street, Princess Elizabeth Avenue, and Kingsway), Kingsway Mall is situated near NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology) and the Royal Alexandra Hospital. On 14 March 2014, its Target location opened,[3] but closed in 2015. Also, in 2015, Forever 21 opened in the former Smitty's and Sheffield Express. It also had the last Smart Set in Edmonton. Hot Topic opened in the mall in the Fall of 2015, and it is the first in Edmonton. In 2017, they announced they would go under a renovation adding a new wing of the mall in the former Target. On July 8, 2021, Walmart announced that it would be exiting its current Westmount Centre Location and relocating to Kingsway Mall in the former Sears space on October 20, 2022. A portion of the former Sears where the store's Sears Home entrance and section were located, was not taken over by Walmart, and that space was replaced by Fit 4 Less, on February 22, 2023.

General information

The Kingsway Garden Mall logo up to November 2009

Kingsway Mall is the second largest mall in Edmonton, behind West Edmonton Mall. The mall contains over 174 stores and services including Hudson's Bay, Sport Chek, H&M, and Marshalls/HomeSense.[4] The mall has two main shopping levels (with The Shoe Company situated in the basement) and a third floor consisting of professional offices. Over 3,755 parking stalls surround the mall, in two levels on the east side, as well as Edmonton Transit System services at the Kingsway/Royal Alex and NAIT stations.

Current anchors

  • Dollarama (opened 2021 in former Zellers/Target upper level)
  • Fit 4 Less (opened February 22, 2023, in the Sears Home entrance and section of the former Sears which was not taken over by Walmart)
  • Forever 21 (originally opened in 2015, replacing Smitty's & Shefield Express, which closed around 2014-2015 (Sheffield Express relocated), closed around 2019-2020, replaced by Urban Behaviour in 2020, UB's lease expired and Forever 21 returned in 2021)
  • H&M (originally opened around 2010-2012, moved in 2018 to former Zellers/Target lower level, original store replaced by Urban Planet
  • HomeSense (opened in 2018 in former Zellers/Target lower level)
  • Hudson's Bay (opened with the mall)
  • Marshalls (opened in 2018 in former Zellers/Target upper level)
  • Shoppers Drug Mart
  • Sport Chek
  • Urban Planet (opened in 2018 in original H&M location, H&M moved to former Zellers/Target lower level)
  • Walmart (opened October 20, 2022, in the former Sears space and moved from the Westmount Centre location)[5]
  • Zellers (pop-up store) (reopened within Hudson's Bay March 23, 2023)

Former anchors

  • Sears: Closed January 8, 2018; replaced with Walmart on October 20, 2022, and a space portion not used by Walmart (which was the Sears Home section of the store) was replaced with Fit 4 Less on February 22, 2023
  • Smitty's closed in 2014, was replaced by Forever 21 in 2015, then Urban Behaviour for a brief time in 2020, and then Forever 21 returned in 2022
  • SuperValu: Closed 1980s
  • Target Canada: Formerly Zellers, Opened on March 14, 2014, Closed on March 15, 2015, now Marshalls/Dollarama on the upper level, H&M/HomeSense on the lower level
  • Urban Behaviour: Replaced original Forever 21 in 2020, the lease expired in 2021, reverted to Forever 21
  • Zellers (original store): Closed 2013, replaced with Target Canada on March 14, 2014, which later closed on March 15, 2015, now Marshalls/Dollarama on the upper level, H&M/HomeSense on the lower level.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Oxford – Kingsway Mall
  2. ↑ Kingsway Mall | Oxford Properties Group
  3. ↑ "Target to Celebrate Grand Opening of Toronto Stockyards Store". CNW Group. 13 March 2014. Archived from the original on 16 March 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  4. ↑ Kingsway Mall General Info
  5. ↑ "Canada's newest Walmart Supercentre opens in Edmonton".
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