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Eaton Centre (French: Centre Eaton) is a name associated with shopping centres in Canada, originating with Eaton's, one of Canada's largest department store chains at the time that these malls were developed. Eaton's partnered with development companies throughout the 1970s and 1980s to develop downtown shopping malls in cities across Canada.
CF Toronto Eaton Centre, [2] commonly referred to simply as Eaton Centre, is a shopping mall and office complex in the downtown core of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is owned and managed by Cadillac Fairview (CF). It was named after the Eaton's department store chain that once anchored it before the chain went defunct in the late 1990s.
1999: Eaton's closes. [30] 2000: Cadillac Fairview acquires full ownership of the mall. [31] Until now it had been co-owned by Ivanhoe. [31] 2002: Carrefour Laval expands with 80 new stores and anchor Simons. [32] This expansion took place on the former spot of the Eaton's store which has been demolished. [33]
Eaton's was demolished in 1987–88 to make way for the Eaton Centre project. The development of the shopping centre was initially the subject of controversy, [4] [6] as construction involved demolishing several historic buildings (or reducing them to facades in front of new construction) [6] and closing one block of Broad Street. [2]
The name Metropolis came to apply to Eaton Centre once its main tenant, Eaton's department store, shut down in 1999. In 2005, a major expansion project combined Metrotown and Metropolis into a megamall, and added many new stores and Western Canada's largest food court. Following this expansion, the two malls became one entity under the name ...
Horizon was succeeded by Eaton's Bargain in 1979 and the original Zellers store in the mall closed in 1980. The latter was substituted mainly by Rossy in 1981, while Eaton's Bargain closed in 1982. After an absence of 3 years, Zellers returned to the mall in 1983, this time as an anchor store , assuming the lease of the former Eaton's Bargain ...
As such, the property consists of two separate buildings at 677 Rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest (the former Eaton's flagship store which had become the Complexe Les Ailes mall in 2002) and 705 Rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest (the former Les Terrasses mall, which became the original Montreal Eaton Centre). The Montreal Eaton Centre shopping mall has a ...
Over time, Eaton's stores opened in other cities across the country, the company offered numerous private label products, e.g., an Eaton's typewriter, a rebadged Silverette model by Silver Seiko Ltd. of Japan. In 1977, the Toronto Eaton Centre opened in downtown Toronto, replacing two previous downtown Eaton's stores. The complex—stretching ...