Bramalea City Centre
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| Location | Brampton, Ontario, Canada |
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| Coordinates | 43°43′00″N 79°43′26″W / 43.716589°N 79.723921°WCoordinates: 43°43′00″N 79°43′26″W / 43.716589°N 79.723921°W |
| Opening date | March 28, 1973 |
| Developer | Bramalea Limited |
| Management | Morguard Investments Limited |
| Owner | Morguard Investments Limited |
| No. of stores and services | 300+ |
| No. of anchor tenants | 3 |
| Total retail floor area | 85 acres (0.34 km2; 0.133 sq mi) |
| No. of floors | 2 |
| Parking | 6385 |
| Public transit access | Bramalea Terminal |
| Website | bramaleacitycentre.com |
The Bramalea City Centre is a large shopping mall located in the city of Brampton, Ontario, Canada. With over a 1.5 million square feet of retail space and more than 300 outlets, it is one of Canada's largest shopping malls. Regarded as a super regional mall, the Bramalea City Centre has a market of more than 500,000 residents and attracts 16 million visitors annually.
The Bramalea City Centre is located at 25 Peel Centre Drive, near the intersection of Queen Street and Dixie Road. It is just east of Highway 410. Brampton Transit's Bramalea Terminal was moved in 2010 from its original site on the southeast side of the mall to a location to the north, to accommodate the Züm bus rapid transit service on Queen Street.
In 2014, the film Room was partially filmed at the Bramalea City Centre. Parts of BCC used for the filming include the Main Entrance, North Food Court, and parts of the upper level of the shopping centre.
In the 1960s, when Bramalea existed as an independent and fast-growing town, area planners implemented a master plan to oversee local development. Included in this master plan was a series of residential areas, industrial development, open parks, and amongst other things, a central shopping centre. An eighty-five acre site, situated in the heart of Bramalea, was designated for mall development. Bramalea Consolidated Developments Limited (later shortened to Bramalea Limited in 1976), the local real estate developer responsible for developing much of Bramalea since the late 1950's, began mall construction towards the end of the decade on what was then the largest retail development in North America.
The first phase of construction entailed the "service centre" portion of the mall at the north end, about 75,000 square feet consisting of a Food City grocery store, LCBO, and various other small shops and offices, completed by 1971. The second phase added 600,000 square feet of mall space, including a two-level Eaton's (120,000 square feet total, officially opened October 7, 1971 while the rest of the mall was still under construction), the two-level main mall corridor of 300,000 square feet stretching east to another anchor store yet to have a tenant (The Bay would end up occupying this space, with 131,000 square feet on two levels), and Steinberg's retail space to the south, consisting of an 80,000 square foot Miracle Mart department store and a 20,000 square foot Miracle Food Mart supermarket, both next to each other on the upper level (later operated together as a Miracle Beaucoup).
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