Centerpoint Mall (formerly Towne and Countrye Square) is a

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located in

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, Canada on the southwest corner of

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and

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at the boundary of Toronto. It contains of retail space. The mall has a layout similar to a cross. Customers enter the Congee Queen from an exterior entrance only, as a doorway to the interior of the mall is only for staff and deliveries, allowing the Congee Queen to remain open separately from the rest of the mall. The supermarket is connected to the mall interior but shopping carts are blocked off from the rest of the mall.

History

It was originally known as Towne and Countrye Square at its grand opening in the 1960s as an enclosed mall. In 1966, the mall began operation with anchors Sayvette and Super City Discount Foods, later adding the

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department store. Miracle Mart was converted to Canadian Tire. The Super City (later Loblaws) store was torn down and rebuilt as a two-storey

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. The Bay was added adjacent to Yonge Street in April 1974. The Sayvette chain went defunct in 1975 and was converted to

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. Woolco closed and the store was converted to a supermarket under the

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, first as a Super Centre, then to Loblaws, now it is a No Frills. The mall changed its name to Centerpoint Mall in 1990, note that its current name uses the American spelling for "center". The Zellers was closed in 2012 when the Zellers leasehold was purchased by

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; the location was closed for about a year before reopening as Target on 19 March 2013. In early 2015, all Target stores across Canada closed. A

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home improvement store opened in the former Target store in late November 2016, but it had closed by the end of February 2019. Replacing the Lowe's, Canada Computers store has now been open since December 14, 2019, but only using the first floor of the anchor space. On 9 December 2021, an application was submitted to the city to permit the re-development of the property. It is planned to demolish the mall over several years, with the aim of replacing it with " network of new public and private streets and development blocks containing a mix of uses including residential, retail, office, a central public park, and privately-owned publicly accessible spaces". Centerpoint Mall Food Court 2023.jpg, Food Court Centerpoint Mall Entrance 1 2023.jpg, Entrance 1 void CenterpointMall.jpg, Closeup facade of Centerpoint Mall File:TargetCenterpointMall.JPG, Target at Centerpoint, opened in 2013 and closed in 2015 File:The Bay at Centerpoint Mall.jpg, Hudson's Bay in 2013 with its former logo

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History

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