Market Mall
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Market Mall is one of the largest malls (by area) in Calgary
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

, Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

 (900,490 square feet / 83,658.3 m²). It is located in Varsity, a suburban neighborhood in the City's northwest quadrant on Shaganappi Trail
Shaganappi Trail
Shaganappi Trail is an arterial road in the northwest quadrant of Calgary, Alberta. It is considered one of the city's expressways. It extends to the south as Montgomery View, a small service road in the neighborhood of Montgomery, and terminates in the neighborhood of Sherwood in the north, with...

. The mall is jointly owned (50/50) by Cadillac Fairview
Cadillac Fairview
Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited is a North American investor, owner, and manager of commercial real estate.The name "Cadillac Fairview" came into existence in 1974 as a result of the merger between Cadillac Development Corporation Ltd and Fairview Corporation...

 and Ivanhoe Cambridge
Ivanhoe Cambridge
Ivanhoe Cambridge is a property management and development company that formed from the merger of two former companies, Ivanhoe and Cambridge, in 2001.-Ivanhoe Corporation:...

, two of Canada's largest real estate property managers and developers.

History

Originally opened in 1971, the mall underwent major expansions in 1988 and 2004. The latest expansion saw the addition of the South wing, an underground parkade, a larger food court, and a complete renovation of the existing centre. The centre utilizes a one level 'racetrack' layout, or figure eight.

Anchors

  • The Bay
    The Bay
    The Bay is a chain of 91 department stores that operate across parts of Canada. It is the main brand of Hudson's Bay Company , North America's oldest company. It has its headquarters in the Simpson Tower in Toronto. In French, the chain is known as la Baie, short for "Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson"...

      200000 sq ft (18,580.6 m²)
  • Jacob/Jacob Jr./Jacob Lingerie
    Jacob (clothing retailer)
    Jacob is a private Canadian affordable women's and girls' clothing store chain based out of Montreal, Quebec. Jacob stores, which number over 200, are all over Canada, usually in malls...

      15159 sq ft (1,408.3 m²)
  • Old Navy
    Old Navy
    Old Navy is an American clothing brand as well as a chain of stores owned by Gap, Inc., with corporate operations in San Francisco and San Bruno, California. It is one of the first major corporations to house headquarters in the new Mission Bay district of San Francisco.Gap, Inc. was run by...

     20022 sq ft (1,860.1 m²)
  • Safeway
    Safeway Inc.
    Safeway Inc. , a Fortune 500 company, is North America's second largest supermarket chain after The Kroger Co., with, as of December 2010, 1,694 stores located throughout the western and central United States and western Canada. It also operates some stores in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Eastern...

     49325 sq ft (4,582.4 m²)
  • Shoppers Drug Mart
    Shoppers Drug Mart
    Shoppers Drug Mart Corporation is Canada's largest pharmacy chain with more than 1,241 stores operating under the names Shoppers Drug Mart in nine provinces and two territories and Pharmaprix in Quebec as well as in Hawkesbury, Ontario....

     14548 sq ft (1,351.6 m²)
  • Sport Chek/Coast Mountain
    Sport Chek
    Sport Chek is the largest Canadian retailers of sporting clothing, sports equipment and equipment destroy, with stores across Canada...

     33267 sq ft (3,090.6 m²)
  • Toys "R" Us 30589 sq ft (2,841.8 m²)
  • Zellers
    Zellers
    Zellers Inc. is Canada's second-largest chain of mass merchandise discount stores, with locations in communities across Canada. A subsidiary of the Hudson's Bay Company , it has 273 locations across the country....

     120456 sq ft (11,190.7 m²)

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