Masonville Place
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| Coordinates | 43°01′32″N81°16′43″W/ 43.02548°N 81.27874°W |
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| Address | 1680 Richmond Street North London,Ontario N6G 3Y9 |
| Opening date | January 2, 1985 |
| Developer | Cadillac Fairview |
| Management | Cadillac Fairview |
| Owner | Cadillac Fairview |
| No. of stores and services | 162 |
| No. ofanchor tenants | 7 |
| Total retail floor area | 686,000 sq ft (63,700 m2).[1] |
| No. of floors | 2 |
| Website | www |
Masonville Place(known locally asMasonvilleorMasonville Mall,and corporately styled asCF Masonville Place) is a two-storey regionalshopping malllocated inLondon, Ontario,Canada,at the southeast corner of Fanshawe Park Road and Richmond Street. The mall contains over 130 stores, several restaurants, and a food court. Masonville Place is anchored by several large retailers includingHudson's Bay,Zara,H&M,Sport Chek/Atmosphere,andShoppers Drug Mart.Cineplex Cinemashas two locations at the shopping mall, theSilverCity/IMAXtheatres, andThe Rec Room,an adult-centred entertainment facility featuring food, drink, arcade games and axe-throwing.
Masonville Place opened on January 2, 1985.[2]It was the third multi-level shopping centre to open in London, afterWestmount Malland White Oaks Mall. It was anchored bySears,Eaton's,andLoblaws,although Loblaws opened on its own in late 1984, preceding the building of the rest of the mall.
Location
[edit]The shopping mall is located in North London, adjacent to the transit corridor of Fanshawe Park Road and Richmond Street. It has a bus terminal for theLondon Transit Commissionserviced by the following routes: 10, 13, 13A, 16, 25, 34, 90, 92 and 93. The mall is expected to be the terminus of one route on the planned LondonBus Rapid Transitsystem.[3]
History
[edit]Beginnings
[edit]Masonville Place was constructed by theCadillac FairviewCorporation Limited and opened in 1985.
Expansion
[edit]In 1991, Masonville expanded with 75 new stores and services, including an indoor miniature golf course, which has since been removed and replaced with more stores. AZellersstore was built in 1994. It was replaced byTargetin 2013.[4]Target later closed all of its Canadian stores, leaving a vacancy in Masonville that Marshalls and HomeSense have since filled in 2017.[5]In April 2018, the vacant upper floor of Target was filled byThe Rec Room.[6]
In October 1998, the Loblaws store closed, and a new standalone Loblaws was opened on the northeast corner of Fanshawe Park Road and Richmond Street. Eaton's store was closed in 1999 due to bankruptcy and was replaced in 2000 with The Bay which relocated from the Galleria Mall in the same city.[7]
Renovations
[edit]On October 29, 2013, Sears Canada announced that it would close its store at the mall and several other locations throughout Canada to reduce costs.[8]There were rumours thatNordstrom,an American retailer, was seeking to fill the space Sears had left, but these were dispelled in 2013 when Cadillac Fairview announced its plans.[9]
On March 29, 2016, Cadillac Fairview announced that Masonville Place would receive significant renovations during 2016.[10]The $77 million renovations included a two-level mall expansion into the former Sears store, which had occupied an area of approximately 127,000 square feet.[11][12]The renovations and mall expansion were completed by November 2016 and includes London's firstDisney Store,Nando's,Zara,Hot TopicandAroma Espresso Baralong withH&Mand Atmosphere/Sport Chek.[13]The Kegmoved from Richmond Row in downtown London to occupy a portion of the space in the new renovation.[14]Other stores also moved into previously empty spaces, such as American fashion companyMichael Kors,and New York-based makeup companyNYX Cosmetics.In 2020, it was announced that Urban Planet would replace the formerForever 21store.[15][16]
See also
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References
[edit]- The Gazette:: Park & Ride the bus at Masonville Place
- Masonville keeps iSecret | London | News | London Free Press
- London, Ont., mall is home to intriguing auto museum
- NewsBank for AJC | prod.ajc
- The Gazette:: Parking solutions on tap?(editorial)
- Target targets Masonville | London | News | London Free Press
- Notes
- ^"The Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited - Retail".cadillacfairview.Archived fromthe originalon 26 October 2007.Retrieved13 January2022.
- ^"Masonville Place - Regional mall in London, Canada".canada.malls.Archived fromthe originalon 2016-04-13.Retrieved2016-03-30.
- ^"City hall is recommending a pair of corridors to serve as the spines of London's proposed rapid-transit system".Retrieved2016-06-02.
- ^"Masonville Place - Regional mall in London, Canada".canada.malls.Retrieved2016-06-02.
- ^"Shut down of Target stores will go big holes in retail plazas across Southwestern Ontario".Retrieved2016-06-02.
- ^Daniszewski, Hank (March 13, 2018)."Second Rec Room to open in Edmonton".The London Free Press.RetrievedJanuary 29,2019.
- ^"Galleria London: London, Ontario, Canada on DeadMalls".DeadMalls.
- ^"Sears Canada to close Toronto Eaton Centre store, four others; will Nordstrom move in?".Toronto Star.October 29, 2013.
- ^"AM980 News (CFPL AM)".Retrieved2016-06-02.
- ^"Coming Soon A New Look".cfshops.Retrieved2016-03-30.
- ^Daniszewski, Hank (2016-03-29)."'Relentless investment' fortifies Masonville ".The London Free Press.Retrieved2016-03-30.
- ^"$77M being invested into Masonville Place".London.CTV London. 29 March 2016.Retrieved2016-03-30.
- ^Tariq, Hamza (29 March 2016)."ZARA, H&M coming to Masonville as part of significant redevelopment".The Gazette • Western University's Student Newspaper.Retrieved2016-03-30.
- ^"Parking costs drive eatery from core".Retrieved2016-06-02.
- ^"Cadillac Fairview Shopping Centres".
- ^"Forever 21 is closing its doors in Canada: Here's what you need to know - National | Globalnews.ca".
