Grant Park Mall
| Location | 1120 Grant Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba R3M 2A6 |
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| Coordinates | 49°51′28″N 97°09′56″W / 49.8578°N 97.1656°WCoordinates: 49°51′28″N 97°09′56″W / 49.8578°N 97.1656°W |
| Opening date | 1969 |
| Management | Primaris REIT |
| Owner | Primaris REIT |
| No. of stores and services | 65 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 6 |
| Total retail floor area | 400,000 sq ft (37,000 m2) |
| No. of floors | 2 |
| Website | Official website |
Grant Park Shopping Centre is a 70-shop, nearly 400,000 square foot shopping centre in southwest Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Grant Park High School and the Pan-Am Pool are located near the mall.
The land around Grant Park was first developed with the introduction of the Harte Subdivision for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1908.
From the 1920s to 1950s, the Grant Park area was the location of Rooster Town, a Métis community. During the Depression of 1929, many Métis people moved to the area. The land was beyond any serviced roads and the 40 or 50 families lived in shanty like houses constructed of old boxcars. In 1959, the residents were evicted and their homes were torn down.
Developed by Aronovitch & Leipsic, Phase I broke ground and opened in 1962 with a few detached buildings opening in 1964 and it became an enclosed shopping mall in 1969.
The mall completed an extensive renovation of the common areas in 1989, and changed its marketing name from Grant Park Plaza to Grant Park Shopping Centre featuring a new logo.
The mall began a three-year renovation starting in 2012 and ending in 2014.
The Eastern end of the mall was originally anchored by discount department store Woolco, constructed approximately two years after the mall first opened and subject of a lawsuit appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada The Woolco store was bought out and converted to Walmart in 1994. This same location was vacated by Walmart in 2001 and replaced by Zellers. This Zellers location closed Feb. 11, 2013. The location was then occupied by Target from November 2013 to April 2015.Canadian Tire has announced that it will be taking over the space previously occupied by Target.
As part of the renewal of Grant Park Shopping Centre and after Dominion Stores left Western Canada in 1984, the Safeway supermarket was moved to the Dominion Store space in 1989.
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