Kanata Town Centre

The Kanata Town Centre is a three-storey office building with a smaller one-storey retail component in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located at 150 Katimavik Road, south of Highway 417, in the Katimavik-Hazeldean community of the Kanata area. It contains approximately 10,000 square metres (110,000 sq ft) of gross floor area. Once intended as the first phase of a central business district for the (then) City of Kanata, the focal point of the planned commercial core for Kanata was later shifted to lands to the north of Highway 417. The office component of the Kanata Town Centre served as the City of Kanata's first permanent city hall.

In 1978, March Township was amalgamated with parts of Goulbourn Township and of Nepean Township to form the new City of Kanata. Prior to the amalgamation, March Township Council proposed the development a new "Town Centre", located in the geographic centre of the urban portion of the new municipality, to serve as a new retail and office core for what would become Kanata. Before the plans for the first phase of the proposed Town Centre were completed, Goulbourn Township approved a competing proposal for a new shopping centre, later named Hazeldean Mall, in the part of Goulbourn that would be joining the new municipality. March Township Council initiated legal action, ultimately unsuccessful, to significantly reduce the size of the Hazeldean Mall development on the grounds that it would adversely affect the market potential of the Town Centre.

The first phase of the Kanata Town Centre was developed by Campeau Corporation and opened on August 19, 1981, almost two years after the opening of the much larger Hazeldean Mall. The main tenants in the mall component of the Town Centre where a Loblaws supermarket, a Boots pharmacy, a Brewers Retail outlet and a Cineplex cinema. The City of Kanata's municipal offices and Council chamber were located in the office component. All of these tenants, except the supermarket (now a Food Basics), have since relocated elsewhere.

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