Kingsway Mall

Kingsway Mall
Location	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Coordinates	53°33′42″N 113°30′20″W / 53.56167°N 113.50556°W / 53.56167; -113.50556
Opening date	1976
Previous names	Kingsway Garden Mall
Management	Oxford Properties Group
Owner	OMERS Realty Corp.
No. of stores and services	174
No. of anchor tenants	7[1]
Total retail floor area	977,880 square feet (90,848 m2)[2]
No. of floors	2+basement & offices (on 3rd floor)
Parking	3,755 stalls
Public transit access	Kingsway/Royal Alex station
Website	kingswaymall.com

Kingsway Mall (formerly Kingsway Garden Mall) is a shopping centre located in central Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Bordered by three major commuter roads (109 Street, Princess Elizabeth Avenue, and Kingsway), Kingsway Mall is situated near NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology) and the Royal Alexandra Hospital.

History

The mall was constructed in 1976. In the 1980s, SuperValu closed. From 2007-2009, the mall completed a $70-million redevelopment. The "Revealing" held on the weekend of 13 November 2009, saw the name change, introduced the public to the new mall, and opened the winter shopping season.

In January/February 2013, the mall's longtime anchor tenant Zellers closed. it was one of the final Zellers locations in Edmonton standing. On 14 March 2014, its Target location opened and replaced the Zellers,^[3] but closed on March 15, 2015. Also, in 2014, the Smitty's and Sheffield Express closed and were revitalized into Forever 21. The mall also had the last Smart Set in Edmonton. Hot Topic opened in the mall in the Fall of 2015 and was the first in Edmonton. In 2017, they announced they would go under a renovation adding a new wing of the mall in the former Target. It was completed in 2018, and contains stores such as Marshalls, HomeSense, Dollarama, H&M (which moved from elsewhere in the mall, which Urban Planet took), among other smaller stores. In late 2017, the Sears store announced its' liquidation and closed on January 8, 2018.

in 2019, Forever 21 closed. This space was taken by Urban Behavior for a short time during the COVID-19 pandemic until the lease expired. In 2022, Forever 21 returned to Kingsway Mall. On July 8, 2021, Walmart announced that it would be exiting its current Westmount Centre location and relocating to Kingsway Mall in the former Sears space on October 20, 2022. A portion of the former Sears where the store's Sears Home entrance and section were located, was not taken over by Walmart, and that space was replaced by Fit 4 Less, on February 22, 2023. On March 23, 2023, Zellers returned to Kingsway Mall, although as a section in the Hudson's Bay store.

General information

Kingsway Mall is the second largest mall in Edmonton, behind West Edmonton Mall. The mall contains over 174 stores and services including Hudson's Bay, Sport Chek, H&M, and Marshalls/HomeSense.^[4] The mall has two main shopping levels (with The Shoe Company situated in the basement) and a third floor consisting of professional offices. Over 3,755 parking stalls surround the mall, in two levels on the east side, as well as Edmonton Transit System services at the Kingsway/Royal Alex and NAIT stations.

Current anchors

• Dollarama (opened 2021 in former Zellers/Target upper level)
• Fit 4 Less (opened February 22, 2023, in the Sears Home entrance and section of the former Sears which was not taken over by Walmart)
• Forever 21 (originally opened in 2015, replacing Smitty's & Shefield Express, which closed around 2014-2015 (Sheffield Express relocated), closed around 2019-2020, replaced by Urban Behaviour in 2020, UB's lease expired and Forever 21 returned in 2021)
• H&M (originally opened around 2010-2012, moved in 2018 to former Zellers/Target lower level, original store replaced by Urban Planet
• HomeSense (opened in 2018 in former Zellers/Target lower level)
• Hudson's Bay (opened with the mall)
• Marshalls (opened in 2018 in former Zellers/Target upper level)
• Shoppers Drug Mart
• Sport Chek
• Urban Planet (opened in 2018 in original H&M location, H&M moved to former Zellers/Target lower level)
• Walmart (opened October 20, 2022, in the former Sears space and moved from the Westmount Centre location)^[5]
• Zellers (pop-up store) (reopened within Hudson's Bay March 23, 2023)

Former anchors

• Sears: Closed January 8, 2018; replaced with Walmart on October 20, 2022, and a space portion not used by Walmart (which was the Sears Home section of the store) was replaced with Fit 4 Less on February 22, 2023
• Smitty's closed in 2014, was replaced by Forever 21 in 2015, then Urban Behaviour for a brief time in 2020, and then Forever 21 returned in 2022
• SuperValu: Closed 1980s
• Target Canada: Formerly Zellers, Opened on March 14, 2014, Closed on March 15, 2015, now Marshalls/Dollarama on the upper level, H&M/HomeSense on the lower level
• Urban Behaviour: Replaced original Forever 21 in 2020, the lease expired in 2021, reverted to Forever 21
• Zellers (original store): Closed 2013, replaced with Target Canada on March 14, 2014, which later closed on March 15, 2015, now Marshalls/Dollarama on the upper level, H&M/HomeSense on the lower level.