Highfield Square, also known as Highfield Square Shopping Centre, was a

shopping centre A shopping center in American English, shopping centre in English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English (see American and British English spelling differences#-re, -er, spelling differences), shopping complex, shopping arcade, ...

located in

Moncton Moncton (; ) is the most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of New Brunswick. Situated in the Petitcodiac River Valley, Moncton lies at the geographic centre of the The Maritimes, Maritime Provinces. Th ...

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, Canada. Highfield Square was owned and operated by

Crombie REIT Crombie REIT (formerly ''Atlantic Shopping Centres'', then ''Crombie Properties'') is a Canadian unincorporated open ended publicly traded real estate investment trust which trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange and has an estimated market capitali ...

before being sold to the city of Moncton. The complex has since been demolished.

Aftermath

The property has been converted to the

Avenir Centre Avenir Centre () is an indoor arena in Moncton, New Brunswick. It opened on September 8, 2018, it serves as the home to the Moncton Wildcats of the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League. History Proposed as a replacement for the Moncton Coliseu ...

History

The mall contained at its peak over 60 stores and services. The major anchor during its lifetime included: * Hudson's Bay, previously

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* The Met *

Shoppers Drug Mart Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. (colloquially Shoppers; named Pharmaprix in Quebec) is a Canadian retail pharmacy chain based in Toronto, Ontario. It has more than 1,300 stores in ten provinces and two territories. The company was founded by pharmacist ...

Other prominent tenants included

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, and

Reitmans Reitmans (Canada) Limited is a Canadian retailing company, specializing in women's clothing. The company operates several store brands, including Reitmans, Penningtons, and RW&CO. Reitmans was founded in 1926 by Herman and Sarah Reitman, in M ...

. After the mall closed its movie theatres in the 1970s, it converted the area into a large

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with many restaurants, such as

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, A&W, Deluxe,

Tim Hortons Tim Hortons Inc., known colloquially as Tim's, Timmies, or Timmy's, is a Canadian multinational coffeehouse and restaurant chain with headquarters in Toronto; it serves coffee, Doughnut, donuts, sandwiches, Breakfast sandwich, breakfast egg mu ...

, and Ed's Sub. The mall mascot was Hifie the Bear.

References

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Aftermath

History

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