Yorkdale Shopping Centre
| Yorkdale Shopping Centre | |
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North entrance exterior (2008) | |
| Alternative names | Yorkdale (colloquial name) |
| General information | |
| Status | Open |
| Type | Shopping mall |
| Location | 3401 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Coordinates | 43°43′32″N 79°27′10″W / 43.725599°N 79.452696°W |
| Opened | February 26, 1964 |
| Renovated |
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| Owner | |
| Management | Oxford Properties |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count |
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| Floor area | 1,845,725 square feet (171,473.5 m2) of gross leasable area |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | John Graham Jr. |
| Developer | Trizec Corporation |
| Other information | |
| Number of stores | 250 |
| Number of anchors | 6 |
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| Public transit access |
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| Website | |
| yorkdale | |
| References | |
Yorkdale Shopping Centre is a shopping mall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the southwest corner of the Highway 401 and Allen Road interchange. It spans 1,845,725 square feet (171,473.5 m2) of selling space and has sales of CA$1,905 per square foot (CA$20,505.25 per square metre), making it the country's third-largest mall by area, and the mall with the highest sales per unit area. It is one of the country's busiest malls, with 18 million visitors annually, and many international retailers have entered the Canadian market at Yorkdale.
It opened in 1964 as the largest enclosed shopping mall in the world. Yorkdale is currently owned by a joint venture between the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) through its subsidiary Oxford Properties Group and the Alberta Investment Management Corporation.