Market Mall (Saskatoon)

Market Mall

Market Mall facing East, McEown Avenue entrance.
Location	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada 2325 Preston Avenue S7J 2G2
Opening date	Nov. 22, 1966[1]
Management	Redcliff Realty Management [1]
No. of stores and services	over 90
No. of anchor tenants	5
Total retail floor area	285,611 square feet [2] / 26,534.1 m²
Parking	921 surface, 452 in two level underground parkade
No. of floors	1
Website	http://www.saskatoonmarketmall.com

Market Mall sign

Market Mall facing West, Preston Avenue entrance, seniors' complex visible in background.

Market Mall is a shopping centre located in the Nutana Suburban Centre area on the east side of Saskatoon. Built in the 1960s as Saskatoon's first enclosed shopping centre, it has undergone four major expansions since the late 1970s and now houses approximately 90 stores and services, anchored by Zellers and Safeway. It also contains a 18-hole miniature golf course, Ticketmaster booth, and as of Fall 2006, a 6 bay City of Saskatoon Transit terminal. It is a major regional mall for the area, and is also frequently used by residents of the many seniors homes in the area; it is also located near two high schools.

An iconic feature of the mall is its two large facing skylights which provided natural light to the mall interior for much of its early history. One of the mall's expansions/renovations in the 1980s closed off the skylights, though the structures remain in place as a local landmark.

Market Mall is located on Preston Avenue on land bounded by Adelaide Street to the North, Louise Street to the South; Preston Ave South to the West, and McEown Avenue to the East.

A partial listing of a few retail outlets in Market Mall are as follows. These tenants are online with their locations as listed. The tenants in any given shopping mall are subject to change.^[2]

• Air Source / Roger's Wireless^[3]
• Awl Shoppe, The
• Boutique of Leathers ^[4]
• Fabricland ^[5]
• Canada Safeway
• Sangster's Health Centre^[6]
• The Source by Circuit City (formerly RadioShack)
• Taco Time
• Tip Top Tailors^[7]
• Wireless Age ^[8]
• Zellers

Former anchor tenants have included Kmart, Canadian Tire and Stedmans (which at varying times also used the brandings Macleods and Gambles before the store was finally closed in the early 1990s). In the early 1990s the mall also hosted Electric Glide, a pay-per-visit arcade featuring laser tag.

References and external links

1. ^ "Unique Mall to Open", Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Nov, 21, 1966
2. ^ Directwest, A Sask Tel Company (2006/2007). (eds.). ed. Sask Tel Phone Book. www.directwest.com. p. 1424. 
3. ^ [http://www.airsource.net/store/comersus_contactUs.asp?city=Saskatoon AirSource] URL accessed January 27, 2007
4. ^ Fashion Leather Clothing - Boutique of Leathers URL accessed January 27, 2007
5. ^ Your Fabric Authority, Fabricland is proud to be the largest retail fabric store chain in Canada
6. ^ Sangster's Health Centres :: Canada's Number One Health and ... URL accessed January 28, 2007
7. ^ All the Best from SydSilver.com > Tip Top Locations URL accessed January 28, 2007
8. ^ Wireless Age Retail URL accessed January 27, 2007

See also

• List of shopping malls in Saskatoon
• Nutana Suburban Centre
• Market Mall, Calgary