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'@@ -9,4 +9,5 @@ | mapframe-zoom = 14 | opening_date = {{Start date and age|1969}} +| previous_names = Grant Park Plaza | developer = | manager = [[Primaris REIT]] @@ -17,39 +18,54 @@ | floor_area = {{convert|400000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} | parking = -| floors = 2 +| floors = | website = {{URL|grantparkshoppingcentre.com}} +| embedded = {{infobox building +| embed = yes +| name = +| grounds_area = 32 acres +| floor_count = 2 +| completion_date = 1962 +| renovation_date = 2011 +| mapframe = no +| developer = Aronovitch & Leipsic +}} }} -'''Grant Park Shopping Centre''' is a 70-shop, nearly 400,000 square foot<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.malls.com/ca/malls/grant-park-shopping-centre.html|title=Grant Park Shopping Centre|website=Malls.com|access-date=August 28, 2019}}</ref> shopping centre in southwest [[Winnipeg]], [[Manitoba]], Canada. +'''Grant Park Shopping Centre''' (formerly '''Grant Park Plaza''') is a 70-shop, nearly 400,000-square-foot<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.malls.com/ca/malls/grant-park-shopping-centre.html|title=Grant Park Shopping Centre|website=Malls.com|access-date=August 28, 2019}}</ref> [[Shopping center|shopping centre]] in the [[Grant Park, Winnipeg|Grant Park area]] of southwest [[Winnipeg]], [[Manitoba]], Canada. -[[Grant Park High School]] and the [[Pan-Am Pool]] are located near the mall. +Located near the mall are [[Grant Park High School]] and the [[Pan-Am Pool]]. ==Development== -The land around Grant Park was first developed with the introduction of the Harte Subdivision for the [[Grand Trunk Pacific Railway]] in 1908.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.winnipegtrails.ca/trails-maps/harte-trail-new/|title=Harte Trail - Winnipeg Trails Association|date=2015|website=Winnipegtrails.ca|access-date=7 August 2019}}</ref> +The land around what would later become Grant Park Shopping Centre was first developed with the introduction of the Harte Subdivision for the [[Grand Trunk Pacific Railway]] in 1908.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2019-12-17|title=From The Archives: The History of Grant Park Shopping Centre|url=https://accesswinnipeg.com/2019/12/from-the-archives-the-history-of-grant-park-shopping-centre/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-10|website=Access Winnipeg|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.winnipegtrails.ca/trails-maps/harte-trail-new/|title=Harte Trail - Winnipeg Trails Association|date=2015|website=Winnipegtrails.ca|access-date=7 August 2019}}</ref> + +From the 1920s to late 1950s, the [[Grant Park, Winnipeg|Grant Park area]] was the location of a [[Métis]] community known as [[Rooster Town]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=U of W seeks stories of Métis neighbourhood|date=October 12, 2012|work=Winnipeg Free Press}}</ref> The difficulty of procuring affordable housing close to other members of the Métis community led families to build their own housing on this land. Throughout the 1950s, residents were under increasing pressure from developers to relocate.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.umanitoba.ca/rooster-town-the-history-of-an-urban-metis-community/|title=Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community|website=News.umanitoba.ca|language=en|access-date=2018-10-18}}</ref> In 1959, the remaining residents were evicted and their homes were burnt or torn down.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/uw-news-action/story.896/title.-remembering-rooster-town-public-help-wanted |title=Remembering Rooster Town – Public Help Wanted |work=University Of Winnipeg |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6Ei1I8MiB?url=https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/uw-news-action/story.896/title.-remembering-rooster-town-public-help-wanted |archive-date=26 February 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/city-newspapers-hastened-demise-of-rooster-town-497656181.html|title=City newspapers hastened demise of Rooster Town|last=Sinclair|first=Niigaan|date=2018-10-16|work=Winnipeg Free Press|access-date=2018-10-18}}</ref> Rooster Town has been described by Lawrie Barkwell, senior historian at the Louis Riel Institute, as a "working-class community with a vibrant culture."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uniter.ca/view/rooster-town-the-winnipeg-community-that-nobody-remembers|title=Rooster Town: the Winnipeg community that nobody remembers – The Uniter|website=uniter.ca|language=en|access-date=2018-10-18}}</ref> Recent scholarship, such as the book ''Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901-1961'' by Evelyn Peters, Matthew Stock and Adrian Werner and an article by David G. Burley in ''Urban History Review'' (''Revue d'histoire urbaine'') explore the long-hidden history of this community.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/rooster-town|title=Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Metis Community, 1901-1961|last=Peters|first=Evelyn|last2=Stock|first2=Matthew|last3=Werner|first3=Adrian|publisher=Univ. of Man. Press|year=2018|isbn=978-0-88755-825-2|location=Winnipeg, Man.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Burley|first=David G.|date=2013|title=Rooster Town: Winnipeg’s Lost Métis Suburb, 1900–1960|url=http://blogs.ubc.ca/geog328/files/2015/09/burley-2013-rooster-town.pdf|journal=Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine|volume=42/1|pages=3–25}}</ref> The [[University of Manitoba]] also hosts an online archive about Rooster Town. -From the 1920s to late 1950s, the Grant Park area was the location of a [[Métis]] community known as [[Rooster Town]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=U of W seeks stories of Métis neighbourhood|date=October 12, 2012|work=Winnipeg Free Press}}</ref> The difficulty of procuring affordable housing close to other members of the Métis community led families to build their own housing on this land. Throughout the 1950s, residents were under increasing pressure from developers to relocate.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.umanitoba.ca/rooster-town-the-history-of-an-urban-metis-community/|title=Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community|website=News.umanitoba.ca|language=en|access-date=2018-10-18}}</ref> In 1959, the remaining residents were evicted and their homes were burnt or torn down.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/uw-news-action/story.896/title.-remembering-rooster-town-public-help-wanted |title=Remembering Rooster Town – Public Help Wanted |work=University Of Winnipeg |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6Ei1I8MiB?url=https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/uw-news-action/story.896/title.-remembering-rooster-town-public-help-wanted |archive-date=26 February 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/city-newspapers-hastened-demise-of-rooster-town-497656181.html|title=City newspapers hastened demise of Rooster Town|last=Sinclair|first=Niigaan|date=2018-10-16|work=Winnipeg Free Press|access-date=2018-10-18}}</ref> Rooster Town has been described by Lawrie Barkwell, senior historian, Louis Riel Institute, as a "working-class community with a vibrant culture."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uniter.ca/view/rooster-town-the-winnipeg-community-that-nobody-remembers|title=Rooster Town: the Winnipeg community that nobody remembers – The Uniter|website=uniter.ca|language=en|access-date=2018-10-18}}</ref> Recent scholarship, such as the book ''Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901-1961'' by Evelyn Peters, Matthew Stock and Adrian Werner and an article by David G. Burley in ''Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine'' explore the long-hidden history of this community.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/rooster-town|title=Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Metis Community, 1901-1961|last=Peters|first=Evelyn|last2=Stock|first2=Matthew|last3=Werner|first3=Adrian|publisher=Univ. of Man. Press|year=2018|isbn=978-0-88755-825-2|location=Winnipeg, Man.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Burley|first=David G.|date=2013|title=Rooster Town: Winnipeg’s Lost Métis Suburb, 1900–1960|url=http://blogs.ubc.ca/geog328/files/2015/09/burley-2013-rooster-town.pdf|journal=Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine|volume=42/1|pages=3–25}}</ref> The University of Manitoba also hosts an online archive about Rooster Town. +Developed by Aronovitch & Leipsic, [[groundbreaking]] to create the shopping centre took place in 1962. The centre opened with a few detached buildings in 1964; some of the original stores included [[Safeway (Canada)|Safeway]], [[Dominion (supermarket)|Dominion]], and [[Gamble-Skogmo#Discount Department Stores|Clarke’s]]. In 1966, [[Woolco]] was added to the mall, precipitating a court case with Clarke’s that eventually reached the [[Supreme Court of Canada|Supreme Court]] (''Clark’s-Gamble of Canada Ltd. v Grant Park Plaza Ltd. et al'').<ref name=":1">[https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/4723/index.do ''Clark’s-Gamble of Canada Ltd. v. Grant Park Plaza Ltd. et al.''<nowiki>, [1967] S.C.R. 614</nowiki>]</ref><ref name=":0" /> With the Court ruling in favour of Woolco, efforts began to enclose the mall in order to connect stores together.<ref name=":0" /> -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.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Grant Park Plaza Ready for Inspection|date=26 August 1969|work=Winnipeg Free Press}}</ref> +Grand Park subsequently became an [[Enclosed mall|enclosed shopping mall]] in 1969.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news|title=Grant Park Plaza Ready for Inspection|date=26 August 1969|work=Winnipeg Free Press}}</ref> That year, the first [[Cinerama]] theatre in Winnipeg—a 742-seat [[National General Corporation]] [[cinema hall]] called Grant Park Cinerama Theatre—opened at the centre, with its entrance being through the mall itself.<ref name=":0" /> -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 completed an extensive renovation of its 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 four-year renovation starting in 2012 and ending in 2016. ==Stores== -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.<ref>Clark’s-Gamble of Canada Ltd. v. Grant Park Plaza Ltd. et al. [1967] SCR 614</ref> The Woolco store was bought out and converted to [[Walmart Canada|Walmart]] in 1994.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cityknown.com/Cities/Shopping.aspx?BusinessID=5548 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-11-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141104104634/http://www.cityknown.com/Cities/Shopping.aspx?BusinessID=5548 |archive-date=2014-11-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> This same location was vacated by Walmart in 2001 and replaced by [[Zellers]].<ref name="auto"/> This Zellers location closed on February 11, 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communities/souwester/correspondent/Saying-so-long-to-the-Zellers-people-199050781.html|title=Saying so long to the Zellers people|first=Wayne|last=Chan|date=March 20, 2013|website=Winnipegfreepress.com|accessdate=7 August 2019}}</ref> The location was then occupied by [[Target Canada|Target]] from November 2013<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/fourth-city-target-opens-279655472.html|title=Fourth city Target opens|first=Murray|last=McNeill|date=October 18, 2014|website=Winnipegfreepress.com|accessdate=7 August 2019}}</ref> to April 2015.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-s-grant-park-target-to-close-by-april-2-1.3007405|title=Winnipeg's Grant Park Target to close by April 2|date=March 24, 2015|work=CBC News Manitoba|access-date=August 28, 2019}}</ref> [[Canadian Tire]] took over roughly 75% of the space in 2016 and remainder was leased to [[GoodLife Fitness]] which opened in 2016. +The mall has approximately 70 stores and services. It is [[Anchor store|anchored]] by [[Red River Co-op]], [[Manitoba Liquor Control Commission|Manitoba Liquor Mart]], [[Shoppers Drug Mart]], [[Landmark Cinemas (Canada)|Landmark Cinemas]], [[Canadian Tire]] and [[McNally Robinson]];<ref>{{Cite web|title=Come Visit Southwest Winnipeg's Premier Shopping Mall {{!}} Grant Park|url=https://www.primarisreit.com/portfolio_overview/grant-park-shopping-centre|access-date=2021-07-10|website=www.primarisreit.com}}</ref> the Liquor Mart at Grant Park is the largest in the province.<ref>{{cite news|last=McNeill|first=Murray|date=June 3, 2011|title=Shuffle in store at Grant Park|work=Winnipeg Free Press}}</ref> + +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.<ref name=":1" /> The Woolco store was bought out and converted to [[Walmart Canada|Walmart]] in 1994.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cityknown.com/Cities/Shopping.aspx?BusinessID=5548 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-11-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141104104634/http://www.cityknown.com/Cities/Shopping.aspx?BusinessID=5548 |archive-date=2014-11-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> This same location was vacated by Walmart in 2001 and replaced by [[Zellers]].<ref name="auto" /> This Zellers location closed on 11 February 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communities/souwester/correspondent/Saying-so-long-to-the-Zellers-people-199050781.html|title=Saying so long to the Zellers people|first=Wayne|last=Chan|date=March 20, 2013|website=Winnipegfreepress.com|accessdate=7 August 2019}}</ref> The location was then occupied by [[Target Canada|Target]] from November 2013<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/fourth-city-target-opens-279655472.html|title=Fourth city Target opens|first=Murray|last=McNeill|date=October 18, 2014|website=Winnipegfreepress.com|accessdate=7 August 2019}}</ref> to April 2015.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-s-grant-park-target-to-close-by-april-2-1.3007405|title=Winnipeg's Grant Park Target to close by April 2|date=March 24, 2015|work=CBC News Manitoba|access-date=August 28, 2019}}</ref> Canadian Tire took over roughly 75% of the space in 2016 and remainder was leased to [[GoodLife Fitness]] which opened in 2016. -As part of the renewal of Grant Park Shopping Centre and after [[Dominion (supermarket)|Dominion Stores]] left Western Canada in 1984, the Safeway supermarket was moved to the Dominion Store space in 1989. +As part of the renewal of Grant Park Shopping Centre and after [[Dominion (supermarket)|Dominion Stores]] left [[western Canada]] in 1984, the Safeway supermarket was moved to the Dominion Store space in 1989. -In the 1970s and 1980s a videogame and pinball arcade known as The Pirate's Den operated in the space now taken by the mid-mall washrooms. After home videogames became more popular and during the 1989 renovations of the mall, the arcade was closed. +In the 1970s and 1980s a video-game and pinball arcade known as The Pirate's Den operated in the space now taken by the mid-mall washrooms. After home videogames became more popular and during the 1989 renovations of the mall, the arcade was closed. -Further renovations in the mid-1990s made for the opening of Winnipeg's largest [[McNally Robinson|McNally Robinson Bookseller]] location in order to compete with the [[Chapters (bookstore)|Chapters]] retail chain. +Further renovations in the mid-1990s made for the opening of Winnipeg's largest McNally Robinson Bookseller location in order to compete with the [[Chapters (bookstore)|Chapters]] retail chain. -On June 27, 2013, Empire Theatres announced that it will be selling this theatre location along with 22 others in Western Canada and Ontario to [[Landmark Cinemas]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.mmdnewswire.com/landmark-cinemas-of-canada-129948.html|title=Landmark Cinemas Of Canada Announces Acquisition Of Twenty Empire Theatres|date=June 27, 2013|work=MMD Newswire|access-date=August 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130701013321/http://www.mmdnewswire.com/landmark-cinemas-of-canada-129948.html|archive-date=July 1, 2013}}</ref> +The former [[Target Canada|Target]] location's lease was sold to Canadian Tire and they were opened on 23 June 2016.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canadian-tire-to-acquire-12-former-target-locations-1.3063272|title=Canadian Tire to acquire 12 former Target locations|date=May 6, 2015|work=CBC News Business|access-date=August 28, 2019}}</ref> -The mall has approximately 70 stores and services. It is anchored by [[Red River Co-op]], [[Manitoba Liquor Control Commission|Manitoba Liquor Mart]], [[Shoppers Drug Mart]], [[Landmark Cinemas (Canada)|Landmark Cinemas]], [[Canadian Tire]] and [[McNally Robinson]]. +2 new pad sites were built on the lot during 2016-2017; [[Cambrian Credit Union]] and Fionn MacCool's Pub. -The Liquor Mart at Grant Park is the largest in the province.<ref>{{cite news|title=Shuffle in store at Grant Park|last=McNeill|first=Murray|date=June 3, 2011|work=Winnipeg Free Press}}</ref> The former [[Target Canada|Target]] location's lease was sold to [[Canadian Tire]] and they were opened on June 23, 2016.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canadian-tire-to-acquire-12-former-target-locations-1.3063272|title=Canadian Tire to acquire 12 former Target locations|date=May 6, 2015|work=CBC News Business|access-date=August 28, 2019}}</ref> +=== Movie theatre === +Opened in 1969, '''Grant Park Cinerama Theatre'''—a 742-seat [[National General Corporation]] [[cinema hall]]—was the first [[Cinerama]] theatre in Winnipeg.<ref name=":0" /> -2 new pad sites were built on the lot during 2016-2017; Cambrian Credit Union and Fionn MacCool's Pub. +The first film screened at the theatre was ''[[Krakatoa, East of Java]]'' (1968). In 1989, the theatre became a [[Multiplex (movie theater)|multiplex]], and since then has been reorganized a few times.<ref name=":0" /> It eventually came under control of [[Empire Theatres]], who, on 27 June 2013, announced that it will be selling this theatre location along with 22 others in [[western Canada]] and Ontario to [[Landmark Cinemas]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=June 27, 2013|title=Landmark Cinemas Of Canada Announces Acquisition Of Twenty Empire Theatres|work=MMD Newswire|url=http://www.mmdnewswire.com/landmark-cinemas-of-canada-129948.html|access-date=August 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130701013321/http://www.mmdnewswire.com/landmark-cinemas-of-canada-129948.html|archive-date=July 1, 2013}}</ref> The theatre has since remained with Landmark, under the name '''Landmark Cinemas 8 Grant Park'''.<ref>https://www.landmarkcinemas.com/showtimes/winnipeg-grant-park?#contact</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Landmark Cinemas 8 Grant Park|url=https://grantparkshoppingcentre.com/stores/grantpark-grant-park-shopping-centre-landmark-cinemas-8-grant-park|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-10|website=Grant Park Shopping Centre}}</ref> ==References== @@ -59,8 +75,8 @@ *{{Official website|http://www.grantparkshoppingcentre.com/}} -{{Shopping Malls in Winnipeg}} - +{{Shopping Malls in Winnipeg}}{{Manitoba-struct-stub}} [[Category:Buildings and structures in Winnipeg]] [[Category:Shopping malls in Manitoba]] [[Category:Shopping malls established in 1969]] [[Category:1969 establishments in Manitoba]] +[[Category:Grant Park, Winnipeg]] '