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Since 2004, its south end was redeveloped as an outdoor mall with Wal-Mart Supercentre as a stand-alone big box store. Warden Woods Mall or Warden Power Centre (1981–2005) at Warden Avenue north of St. Clair Avenue East near Warden station , Scarborough [ 12 ] was a full mall with three anchor stores (The Bay, Simpson's and a Knob Hill Farms ...
It served the Eatonville neighbourhood of Etobicoke district. It opened in 1973 with a supermarket anchor, a Woolco department store, and a short enclosed mall. In 1994, Wal-Mart took over the Woolco location and remained in the mall until 2004. The mall declined after Walmart's departure, and was described as being on "death row". [1]
Walmart Canada was established on January 14, 1994, through the acquisition by Walmart of 122 Canadian leases of Woolco, a subsidiary of Woolworth Canada. [8] [9] [10] These Woolco stores were renovated and converted into the Walmart banner. [9] Walmart did not acquire 22 other Woolco stores that were either unionized or had downtown locations.
Zellers was a Canadian discount store chain founded by Walter P. Zeller in 1931. It was acquired by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in 1978, and after a series of acquisitions and expansions, peaked with 350 locations in 1999. [2]
Since the 1998 amalgamation, it is administered together with old Toronto, and separate from Scarborough, North York, and Etobicoke-York, by the "Toronto and East York Neighbourhood Council". East York itself is commonly divided into two zones with mainly Edwardian urban neighbourhoods situated south of Taylor-Massey Creek and referred to as ...
Bathurst Street originally only referred to the section south of Queen Street. In 1870, the section north of Queen Street became part of Bathurst Street. It was known until then as Crookshank's Lane, after Honourable George Crookshank. The road acted as a driveway to his 300-acre (1.2 km 2) farm. [4]
Golden Mile Plaza was added west of the industrial "mile" in 1954 and was visited in 1959 [5] by Queen Elizabeth II marking the further transformation of the area into a series of strip malls. The original strip mall on the north of Eglinton Avenue was anchored by a Famous Players movie theatre located at Pharmacy Avenue and Eglinton.
The street gives its name to Etobicoke's the Queensway–Humber Bay neighbourhood. From 1953 to 1954, the Queensway was signed briefly as Highway 108 when it was under the-then Department of Highways from Highway 27 (prior to being renamed Highway 427) and the eastern end of the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW). While the Highway 27-QEW interchange ...