Bridlewood Mall
Bridlewood Mall is a neighbourhood shopping centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It serves the L'Amoreaux neighbourhood in the Scarborough district of Toronto. Its anchors include Shoppers Drug Mart, Dollarama, Metro, and Yours Food Mart.
History
Bridlewood Mall was built in 1975 and redeveloped from 1998 to 1999. The mall takes its name from Bridlewood area to the south and the horse farm owned by Harry C. Hatch from 1927 to 1946. A small cemetery from the mid-1800s was incorporated as a memorial garden in the parking lot. The mall began with four big-box store anchors: Towers, Kmart, Food City, and Dominion.The Towers chain was bought by Zellers in 1990 and the store was closed in 1991.
Metro Inc. bought Dominion stores in December 2008, and the Dominion store was converted into a Metro store.
Zellers went into liquidation on December 26, 2012, and it closed in March 2013.
A Target store was supposed to open at the location where the Zellers store had been, but all construction activity was cancelled due to Target's departure from Canada in April 2015. The space then became Stitches, a discount clothing outlet in 2016, before its closure in 2019. The space was then reopened on December 22, 2021, as an Asian supermarket, with two smaller stores being leased inside.
Price Chopper closed on December 20, 2020, with the space being split in half. The western half was given to the City of Toronto, where an Employment and Social Services center has opened an office. Meanwhile, the other half has been leased to the Toronto Public Library, where the library has since relocated to that space in 2024 once construction was completed, expanding its area from 7,590 sq ft to approximately 20,000 sq ft.