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Encyclopedia > Shoppers World, Brampton
Shoppers World
Image:Shoppers world brampton logo.gif
Mall facts and statistics
Location Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Opening date 1969
Developer  ?
Management RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust
Owner RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust
No. of stores and services 190
No. of anchor tenants 5
Total acreage  ?
Total retail floor area 781,067 sq. ft.
(72,563 m²)
Parking  ?
No. of floors 1
Website Official website

Over 30 years old, Shoppers World, Brampton was at one point in the 1970s Canada's top selling mall, per square foot. Currently it is host to over 190 stores, including The Bay, Canadian Tire, Price Chopper, Winners, Zellers and Staples/Business Depot. It is located at is located at 499 Main Street South in Brampton, Ontario. Image File history File links Shoppers_world_brampton_logo. ... Coordinates: Country Canada Province Ontario Region Peel Incorporation 1853 (village)   1873 (town)   1974 (city) Mayor Susan Fennell Governing Body Brampton City Council (click for members) MPs Navdeep Bains, Colleen Beaumier, Ruby Dhalla, Gurbax Malhi MPPs Vic Dhillon, Linda Jeffrey, Kuldip Kular Area    - City 266. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Official languages None Flower White Trillium Tree Eastern White Pine Bird Common Loon Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats 106 24 Area Total... La Baie on Montreals Saint Catherine Street, with 1501 McGill College in the background The Bay is a chain of 98 fashion department stores that operate across parts of Canada. ... Canadian Tire (TSX: CTC CTC.a, CTC) is one of the Canadas 35 largest publicly traded companies and operates an inter-related network of businesses engaged in retailing, financial services and petroleum. ... Price Chopper is a chain of supermarkets, headquartered in Rotterdam, New York. ... Winners is a Canadian family apparel, giftware, fine jewelry, home fashions, accessories and family footwear retailer with 168 stores across the country, As of 2004. ... Zellers Inc. ... Staples Business Depot is a retail brand of The Business Depot, Ltd. ... Coordinates: Country Canada Province Ontario Region Peel Incorporation 1853 (village)   1873 (town)   1974 (city) Mayor Susan Fennell Governing Body Brampton City Council (click for members) MPs Navdeep Bains, Colleen Beaumier, Ruby Dhalla, Gurbax Malhi MPPs Vic Dhillon, Linda Jeffrey, Kuldip Kular Area    - City 266. ...

Newly-renovated foodcourt.
Newly-renovated foodcourt.

The parking lot is outfitted with a fully functional bus terminal which features connections to Brampton Transit as well as Mississauga Transit systems. There is also a GO Transit bus stop located on the opposite end of the parking lot. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2304x1728, 808 KB) Camera manufacturer CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model EX-Z40 Orientation Normal Horizontal resolution 72 dpi Vertical resolution 72 dpi Software used 1. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2304x1728, 808 KB) Camera manufacturer CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD Camera model EX-Z40 Orientation Normal Horizontal resolution 72 dpi Vertical resolution 72 dpi Software used 1. ... A Brampton Transit bus. ... A Mississauga Transit New Flyer articulated bus at South Common Mall. ... GO Transit, officially known as the Greater Toronto Transit Authority (GTTA), is Canadas first, and Ontarios only, interregional public transit system, established to link Toronto with the surrounding regions of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). ...


Reconstruction along the roads East and South of Shoppers World, Brampton has caused numerous traffic delays over the past year. The reconstruction is scheduled for completion in the near future. Recent renovations have also been performed on the mall.


History

Suresh Joachim, minutes away from breaking the ironing world record at 55 hours and 5 minutes, at Shoppers World Brampton.
Suresh Joachim, minutes away from breaking the ironing world record at 55 hours and 5 minutes, at Shoppers World Brampton.

The site of Shoppers World was originally a drive-in movie theatre and A&W restaurant.[citation needed] ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x1600, 351 KB) Summary Suresh Joachim at Shoppers World mall in Brampton, setting the ironing world record. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x1600, 351 KB) Summary Suresh Joachim at Shoppers World mall in Brampton, setting the ironing world record. ... Suresh Joachim, minutes away from breaking the ironing world record at 55 hours and 5 minutes, at Shoppers World Brampton. ... Drive-in, a facility such as a bank, restaurant, theatre or even a church where one can literally drive in with an automobile for service. ... A&W is a brand name used by two companies: A&W Restaurants A&W Root Beer - once only at the restaurants, now available at supermarkets This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...


There has been a recent massive renovation of the shopping complex, causing a new wave of customers to come in and a new generation's interest to be piqued. It is also notable that Shoppers World Brampton is home to some of Brampton's oldest family-operated businesses.


The addition of a Canadian Tire big-box store to the Main Street side of the mall greatly changed the facade of the mall. Many smaller stores were moved or closed to allow for the addition of this additional anchor store. Staples Business Depot, another big-box format store, also moved in to the mall in the locations previously held by Winners and Fabricland. It has been suggested that List of superstores be merged into this article or section. ... In retail, an anchor store, or draw tenant, is one of the larger stores in a shopping mall, usually a department store in a major retail chain, such as Macys or JCPenney. ...


Anchors

La Baie on Montreals Saint Catherine Street, with 1501 McGill College in the background The Bay is a chain of 98 fashion department stores that operate across parts of Canada. ... Zellers Inc. ... Canadian Tire (TSX: CTC CTC.a, CTC) is one of the Canadas 35 largest publicly traded companies and operates an inter-related network of businesses engaged in retailing, financial services and petroleum. ... Price Chopper is a chain of discount food stores in Canada. ... Winners is a chain of Canadian department stores owned by TJX Companies. ... Staples Business Depot is a retail brand of The Business Depot, Ltd. ...

See also

Coordinates: 43° 39 58.18° N The following is a list of Canadas largest shopping malls, ranked by reported total retail floor space, or gross leasable area (GLA). ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...


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Brampton, Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3712 words)
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Brampton is optimally placed in the GTA, with access to most of the area's major roads; at one point in the 90s billboards advertised that "all roads lead to Brampton".
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Suresh Joachim, minutes away from breaking the ironing world record at 55 hours and 5 minutes, at Shoppers World, Brampton.
Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as the Guinness Book of Records (and in previous US editions Guinness Book of World Records) is a reference book published annually, containing an internationally recognized collection of world records, both human achievements and the extrema of the natural world.
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