Capilano Mall is a
shopping mall
A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a large indoor shopping center, usually Anchor tenant, anchored by department stores. The term ''mall'' originally meant pedestrian zone, a pedestrian promenade with shops along it, but in the late 1960s, i ...
in the
City of North Vancouver in
British Columbia
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, Canada. It is located on Marine Drive, near the city's western border with the
District of North Vancouver. It is the second largest shopping mall in the north shore, after Park Royal.
The anchor tenant is
Walmart
Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores in the United States and 23 other ...
.
History
Capilano Mall was originally built in 1967. Woolworth's then
Woolco
Woolco was an American-based discount retail chain. It was founded in 1962 in Columbus, Ohio, by the F. W. Woolworth Company. It was a full-line discount department store unlike the five-and-dime Woolworth stores which operated at the time. At ...
and
Super-Valu were the initial anchor tenants. In 1974 an expansion added a Sears store. The mall underwent an upgrade and major expansion in 1986, and again in 2001. Also within the mall, there is also a set of two totem poles which were erected in 1986 and serves as a center piece icon in relations to its history and ties to local land.
Transportation
Capilano Mall is served by frequent
TransLink bus service along Marine Drive.
Shop and Services
In addition to Walmart, shops include Urban Planet, Claire's, Dollar Tree, and Showcase. Food chains include A&W, Cobs Bread, and Subway.
See also
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Park Royal Shopping Centre
Park Royal Shopping Centre, also known as simply Park Royal, opened in 1950, is a shopping mall located in West Vancouver and X̱wemelch'stn, British Columbia, Canada. Park Royal was Canada's first covered shopping mall. Park Royal has seen multipl ...
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Lonsdale Quay
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List of shopping malls in Canada
This article is a list of notable shopping malls in Canada by province.
Canada's first indoor mall was the Lister Block, originally opened in 1852, in Hamilton, Ontario. The Lister Block was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1924. In 2011 the bu ...
References
External links
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{{Shopping Malls in Metro Vancouver
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Shopping malls in Metro Vancouver
Shopping malls established in 1967