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'''Garden City Shopping Centre''' is a 285,000 square-foot (according to a Bayfield Realty Advisors press release)<ref>"[http://www.bayfieldadvisors.com/content/our-press/our-press.cfm?sPressReleaseID=2010_01_01 Our Press]", Bayfield Realty Advisors. January 2010. Retrieved 22 July 2014.</ref> or 395,025 square-foot (total complex; according to a RioCan Investment Real Estate Investment Trust plan)<ref>"[http://www.riocan.com/Content/PDF/sitePlan/319A.pdf Garden City Shopping Centre]", RioCan. January 2014. Retrieved 22 July 2014.</ref> shopping centre at McPhillips Street and Leila Avenue in [[Winnipeg]], [[Manitoba]],<ref name=Cinemas>King, Randall (5 August 2010). "Garden City Cinemas closing after 40 years", ''[[Winnipeg Free Press]]'', p. D2.</ref> built in 1970. It opened August 12, 1970.<ref name=Growth>Smith, Kenneth B. (10 July 1970). "Building and real estate: Shopping centre growth in next five years declared unlikely to equal record of past five", ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', p. B4.</ref> The mall consists of 75 stores and 11 restaurants on a single level. The anchor stores are [[Canadian Tire]], [[Sears Canada]], [[Winners]] and [[GoodLife Fitness]]. 

The shopping centre is owned by Bayfield Realty Advisors.<ref>Tjaden, Tracy (18 January 2011). "Shopping malls see future in Canadian winter", ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', p. B13.</ref>

== History ==
The shopping centre's developer was James Kelly of Toronto.<ref name=Growth /> The centre was built in [[West Kildonan, Winnipeg|West Kildonan]] upon 40 acres of land.<ref name=DailyStar>(27 February 1969). "Simpsons-Sears in Winnipeg", ''[[Toronto Daily Star]]'', p. 34.</ref> Upon construction in 1969–70, at a cost of multiple millions of dollars, a major anchor store was [[Simpsons-Sears]], with 100,000 square feet of space. The initial plan was for 40 stores, and [[T. Eaton Co. Limited]] also purchased space in the mall.<ref name=DailyStar /><ref>(26 February 1969). "Simpsons-Sears to build 100,000-square-foot store at Winnipeg centre", ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', p. B3.</ref>

A major expansion began in 1974, with a 181,000 square-foot addition. Anchor stores at that time included the Simpson-Sears store and a [[Dominion (supermarket)|Dominion supermarket]], with plans to add an Eaton's store and a [[Beaver Lumber]].<ref>(4 October 1974). "Inflation called key difficulty", ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', p. B3.</ref> T. Eaton Co. Limited opened an 86,000 square-foot store in August 1976.<ref>(7 August 1976). "Companies in the news: Eaton", ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', p. 14.</ref> As of that same year, Garden City was one of the four largest regional malls in the city of Winnipeg.<ref>(21 April 1976). "Shopping centres meeting slower sales growth", ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', p. B16.</ref>

The Eaton's store closed in 1998, and its space was taken over by a Canadian Tire store.<ref>Sherren, Reg (23 August 1999). "Eaton's closures", ''[[The National (CBC)|The National]]'', [[CBC News]].</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==
* {{Official|www.shopgardencity.ca}}

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