8-534: Lincoln Fields Shopping Centre (later Lincoln Heights Galleria ) was a community mall located in the Lincoln Heights neighbourhood of Ottawa , Ontario , Canada. It was located between Carling Avenue and Richmond Road just west of Lincoln Fields station . In October 2019, the mall was closed due to changing demographics in the area and departure of the Walmart store. Lincoln Fields Shopping Centre
16-604: A supermarket and/or large drugstore. In Europe, any shopping center with mostly "retail warehouse units" (UK terminology; in the US these are called " big box stores " or superstores), 5000 sqm or larger, 53,819 sq. ft., is a retail park, according to the leading real estate company Cushman & Wakefield. Therefore, some neighborhood shopping centers in the United States might be considered "retail parks" in Europe, depending on
24-489: The automobile. Already by 1940, the neighborhood shopping center was seen as a good format for serving the shopping needs of people in suburban areas in general. Washington, D. C., was the area where different experimental forms were built. The Bank Block in Grandview Heights, Ohio (1928) was an early neighborhood center of 30 shops built along Grandview Avenue, with parking in the back for 400 cars. Uniquely for
32-452: The following year. The mall's western half was demolished in 2021. Long-term development plans by RioCan include high-density residential towers on the site. Community mall A neighborhood shopping center ( Commonwealth English : neighbourhood shopping centre ) is an industry term in the United States for a shopping center with 30,000 to 125,000 square feet (2,800 to 11,600 m ) of gross leasable area , typically anchored by
40-510: The land to a new team who instead proposed a $ 3.8 million single-story shopping mall. The mall broke ground on June 9, 1971 and opened on May 24, 1972, becoming the city's third enclosed shopping centre . In 1985, the mall underwent renovations and was rebranded as Lincoln Heights Galleria, though residents continued referring to the mall as "Lincoln Fields". In 2016, the Walmart store closed and relocated to Bayshore Shopping Centre . This cause
48-566: The mall to lose a significant portion of its clientele. In November 2018, the Wendy's restaurant, housed in a separate building fronting Carling Avenue, burned down in a fire that police said was deliberately set. In January 2019, it was announced the mall's leases would terminate on July 31 of that year. The mall's eastern half was demolished in summer 2020. This left the Rexall and Metro stores in operation until they moved into two newly built spaces
56-412: The tenant mix. Before the 1930s, there were only a few examples of this type of shopping center, typically built as part of new, planned, upscale residential developments. During the 1930s the neighborhood center not only emerged as an important element of the retail landscape in the United States, but also became one of the first common building forms to be adapted for the society's widespread adoption of
64-456: Was developed out of a project named "Cinema City", proposed in 1964. The proposed CA$ 25 million complex would feature over 80 stores across three floors, a three-screen movie theatre and four luxury apartment buildings with a planned opening date of March 1967. However, the following years saw no development. The project was repeatedly scaled down and expected construction costs rose to $ 85 million. The site's original developers eventually sold
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