North Industrial, Saskatoon

North Industrial
Neighbourhood
River City Centre Mall
Coordinates: 52°09′42″N 106°40′02″W / 52.161667°N 106.667222°W / 52.161667; -106.667222Coordinates: 52°09′42″N 106°40′02″W / 52.161667°N 106.667222°W / 52.161667; -106.667222
Country	Canada
Province	Saskatchewan
City	Saskatoon
Suburban Development Area	North Industrial SDA
Neighbourhood	North Industrial
Government
• Administrative body	Saskatoon City Council
Area
• Total	2.59 km2 (1.00 sq mi)
Population (2006)
• Total
Time zone	CST (UTC−6)
List of neighbourhoods in Saskatoon

River City Centre Mall

River City Centre Mall
Location	North Industrial, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Owner	Sunstone Holdings of Regina
No. of anchor tenants	5; Sears Home Centre, Giant Tiger, Staples, Scott's Parables, Dollarama
No. of floors	1
Parking	above ground free

North Industrial is an established industrial community in the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, which consists primarily of industrial and retail development.

Undeveloped land, office space, and existing industrial facilities are available in Saskatoon albeit considering Saskatoon's economic growth over the past years has been exponential. Industrial footage can be rented between $4.00 and $7.00, whereas Office square footage runs about $6.00. North Industrial contains Suburban Office Housing by providing 20.9% of Saskatoon's office real estate or 451,607 square feet (41,955.7 m²). The north industrial fully serviced premium location industrial lots sell for about $190,000 an acre.

51st Street is the northern edge of this industrial area. Idylwyld Drive runs concurrent with Highway 11 or Louis Riel Trail which runs concurrent with the Yellowhead Highway and Highway 16 marks the western boundary. Whereas Railway tracks which are parallel to Millar Avenue mark the eastern. To the south Circle Drive which is concurrent with the Yellowhead Highway, Trans-Canada Highway, and Highway 16 is included. At the southern perimeter all properties which extend from Venture Crescent and 40A Street East.

Until the late 1990s, North Industrial also included the industrial lands north of 51st Street, west of the rail line, and east of Idylwyld Drive up to 60th Street, but a reorganization of community boundaries resulted in the area north of 51st Street being redesignated Hudson Bay Industrial. North Industrial retained its name, even though it is no longer geographically accurate, having been supplanted by Hudson Bay Industrial and other areas further to the north.

The North Industrial district was considered Saskatoon's northern gateway when development began in the 1950s and 1960s (there had been an earlier attempt at an industrial subdivision to the northeast called Factoria that had been unsuccessful). Development of the area began to accelerate in the 1960s with the development of Circle Drive, which incorporated the area's southern boundary, 42nd Street. Construction of Circle Drive facilitated the opening up of North Industrial to development, although the bridge and northeast leg of the freeway wasn't constructed until the early 1980s.