Northland Village Mall was a

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located in northwest

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. The mall opened in 1971, with it being further expanded in 2005. The mall closed in 2021, with demolition to redevelop the mall happening throughout the year 2022 to turn it into an open-air facility. Prior to 2021, Northland Village was a one-level shopping centre (with a small two-level section) with over 60 retail shops and services. It is located at the intersection of

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and Shaganappi Trail, in the neighbourhoods of Brentwood and Dalhousie.

Retail stores

The mall hosted anchor stores such as Best Buy,

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and

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(previously Woolco). It was a regional mall with of

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. Northland Village underwent renovations in 2003, when it was expanded to accommodate the arrival of new anchor Best Buy and again in 2005, when the bargain cinema was converted into Calgary's first

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, the Hudson's Bay Co.'s first off-price retail store location in

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History

Until 1999, Eaton's was the primary anchor on the north side of mall. This was replaced with a

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until that brand became defunct in 2015. For several years, the Future Shop operated at the same time as the mall's Best Buy; despite sharing owners and carrying similar goods, the two stores were located down a short corridor from one another. Part of the former Eaton's footprint was also used to add a small second floor area with a Winners and Fabricland. It is the recipient of a 1998 MAXI Award. for their program to help the impoverished adults Slowly over the years, the mall saw major loses in foot traffic. As more and more anchors left the mall like

and

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, mixed with the malls vintage look, less and less people visited this mall. Especially with the bigger and more popular mall

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just down the road, more and more businesses left over the years. In November 2021, the interior of the mall was mostly closed in preparation for a redevelopment of the site that will see the shopping centre "de-malled" and become an open-air complex, with major reconstruction beginning in January 2022. In mid-January 2022, filming for the TV series ''

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'' took place at the mall, with the shuttered corridors standing in for a post-apocalyptic setting. In May of 2023, the demolition of the mall began as part of the ongoing redevelopment though some mall retailers such as Wal-Mart remain in operation.

References

External links

Official Site
{{Calgary landmarks Defunct shopping malls in Alberta Oxford Properties