List of shopping malls in Toronto


Toronto has several shopping malls across the city, including five major destination malls that are among the largest and most profitable in Canada. The first enclosed shopping mall in Toronto was the Toronto Arcade in the downtown core. The first shopping mall of the enclosed, automobile-centred design type was Yorkdale Shopping Centre, which opened in 1964.

Major shopping centres

Toronto's five major shopping centres each have over one hundred stores and are anchored by multiple department stores, international brands and luxury retailers. They are also the five largest malls in Toronto by floor space. Each provides thousands of automobile parking spaces. With the exceptions of Sherway Gardens and Scarborough Town Centre, all of these malls have direct pedestrian connections with the Toronto subway system, though Sherway Gardens has a bus terminal connecting Toronto Transit Commission and MiWay bus routes and Scarborough Town Centre was connected to Scarborough Centre station of Line 3 Scarborough until the line's permanent closure in July 2023, though the former station still has an active bus terminal. Yorkdale Shopping Centre is Toronto's first of its kind and was the world's largest shopping mall at the time of opening, while Toronto Eaton Centre is the most visited shopping mall in North America. These five malls were completed within a 13-year span in the 1960s and 1970s. The five malls are owned by either Cadillac Fairview or Oxford Properties, two of Canada's largest commercial real estate investment companies. A sixth major mall is planned by Cadillac Fairview in Toronto's planned East Harbour neighbourhood by the intersection of Don Valley Parkway and Gardiner Expressway / Lake Shore Boulevard and be also served by the planned East Harbour Transit Hub on the Ontario Line and GO Transit's Lakeshore East line.
NameDistrictMajor intersectionDirect subway connectionDeveloper/operatorRetail spaceYear opened
Fairview MallNorth YorkDon Mills Road—Sheppard AvenueCadillac Fairview1970
Scarborough Town CentreScarboroughMcCowan Road—Highway 401Scarborough Centre Oxford Properties1973
Sherway GardensEtobicokeThe Queensway—The West MallCadillac Fairview1971
Toronto Eaton CentreOld TorontoYonge Street—Dundas Street
Yonge Street—Queen Street		TMU
Queen		Cadillac Fairview1977
Yorkdale Shopping CentreNorth YorkAllen Road—Highway 401YorkdaleOxford Properties1964

District or neighbourhood shopping centres

The district or neighbourhood level of shopping centres in Toronto are typically built around one or a few department stores or grocery supermarkets and are enclosed. These shopping centres typically provide a surrounding free parking lot. Most of these are located in the suburbs of Toronto, where land was available for parking. There are only two shopping malls of this type within Toronto's pre-1998 city limits: Dufferin Mall and Gerrard Square. The third shopping mall in Old Toronto, Galleria Shopping Centre, was demolished in January 2020 and is replaced with condo developments. There are a few ethnic malls of this type as well. Woodbine Mall has Fantasy Fair, a small year-round indoor amusement park primarily for young children.

Ethnic malls

  • Dragon Centre, Scarborough
  • Majestic City, Scarborough; North America's largest South Asian indoor mall
  • Splendid China Mall, Scarborough; converted from Canadian Tire

Malls located within major office buildings and condominium towers

One configuration of shopping mall in Toronto is the self-contained type located within a commercial office building, sometimes around a central atrium. This type typically does not provide a surrounding parking lot. These malls typically house from a dozen to several dozen stores. Most of these are connected to a station of the Toronto subway system. In the case of the Hudson's Bay Centre, the mall connects the former department store to the Toronto subway system at Bloor–Yonge station. Some of these malls can be located in the taller condominium towers. These malls are located in the core, unless marked otherwise:

Path underground shopping complex

In Downtown Toronto, primarily in the Financial District, there are interconnected shopping malls located at least one flight of stairs underground. The complex as a whole is named 'Path'. The Toronto Eaton Centre is connected to the complex. The complex has 1,200 stores, and according to Guinness World Records, the Path is the largest underground shopping complex in the world, with of retail space.

Open-air shopping plazas

Open-air shopping plazas are larger collections of stores built with surrounding parking areas, with parking spaces separated from the storefronts by sidewalks. These shopping centres generally serve the local surrounding area and have a large proportion of family-run businesses, some of which serve ethnic communities.
  • Bamburgh Gardens, Scarborough
  • Chartwell Plaza, Scarborough
  • Dufferin & Steeles Plaza, North York
  • Iranian Plaza, North York; ethnic plaza
  • The Landmark, Scarborough; ethnic plaza
  • Lawrence Plaza, North York
  • Milliken Wells Plaza, Scarborough
  • Peanut Plaza, North York
  • Sheppard Plaza, North York
  • Shops at Don Mills, North York
  • Tam O'Shanter Plaza, Scarborough
  • Unnamed plaza owned by State, York
  • Victoria Terrace, North York
  • Whiteshield Plaza, Scarborough
  • York Mills Gardens, North York

Power centres

Power centres mainly consist of major national and international big-box stores with large amounts of parking space separate from the stores themselves, and which serve a larger area than the open-air shopping plazas do.

Flea markets

The markets are housed indoors with stalls of independent vendors.

Former shopping malls

The following shopping malls have been demolished or closed. Some have been replaced by new strip plazas or re-developed for non-retail uses:
  • Don Mills Centre, Don Mills Road and Lawrence Avenue East, North York — former shopping mall with 98 stores. Originally a strip plaza, it was enclosed in 1978 and expanded from 400,000 to 462,000 square feet. Closed and demolished in 2006, it was replaced by Shops at Don Mills in 2009. CF operated a shuttle bus service to Fairview Mall until it opened. Former Dominion and the Royal Bank Building are the only remaining buildings that were once part of the old mall.
  • Galleria Shopping Centre at Dufferin Street and Dupont Street, Old Toronto; demolition began in January 2020 and is replaced with a condominium development with retail podium.
  • Golden Mile Plaza at Eglinton Avenue East and Victoria Park Avenue, demolished after the 1986 fire and later replaced with a power centre named Golden Mile Mall.
  • Honeydale Mall : Located in Eatonville neighbourhood of Toronto; officially closed on 28 June 2013. Mall is in situ awaiting demolition.
  • Morningside Mall at Morningside Avenue and Kingston Road, Scarborough; the indoor mall was demolished to make way for an outdoor big box plaza called Morningside Crossing
  • Northtown Shopping Centre – located at 5421 Yonge and built on part of Cummer Pioneer Cemetery and demolished and replaced by condominium complex with some retail space at ground level.
  • Rexdale Plaza, Islington Avenue and Rexdale Boulevard, Etobicoke and enclosed in 1972. Most stores closed by 2003 and demolition of south end in 2004 with north end of mall retained. Since 2004, its south end was redeveloped as an outdoor mall with Wal-Mart Supercentre as a stand-alone big box store.
  • Sunnybrook Plaza, Eglinton Avenue East and Bayview Avenue, East York, demolished and will be redeveloped as three-tower residential complex with ground level retail units.
  • Warden Woods Mall or Warden Power Centre at Warden Avenue north of St. Clair Avenue East near Warden station, Scarborough was a full mall with three anchor stores and later as clearance centre. It has since been demolished and replaced with townhouses.
  • Weston-Finch Mall, Weston Road and Finch Avenue West, North York — former strip mall and later as outlet facility; demolished 2006 and vacant lot partially redeveloped as Primo Towers rental apartments. North end still vacant.
  • Westside Mall, Eglinton Avenue West west of Caledonia Road, York — replaced with a power centre of the same name during the early 2000s, FreshCo, Dollar Tree and will be connected to Caledonia station of both GO Transit's Barrie line and the Toronto subway system's Line 5 Eglinton in the first quarter of 2026 at the earliest.
  • The original Yonge Street Arcade at 137 Yonge Street and consisting of 52 stores was considered Canada's first indoor mall. It was demolished in 1954 following two fires and was replaced in 1960 by the Arcade Building, which had a similar arcade-style concourse on its main floor until 2008 when the floor was redeveloped with the arcade being replaced with a health club and offices.

Former flea markets