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'Market Village' is a Chinese themed mall in Markham, Ontario at the corner of Steeles Avenue and Kennedy Road and is one of the largest Chinese malls in Toronto and in North America with 325,000 square feet (30,000 m²) of retail space and over 170 stores.
Built by Cedarland Properties Limited in 1990, it attempts to mirror and mimic a rural town, the northwest and southeast facades feature barn like and farm house designs. The mall was built as a retail addition to the Cullen Country Barns located to the west side of the new mall.
However, the new tenants of the mall were (an still are) mainly catering to Cantonese Chinese clientele and attracted few non-Chinese shoppers in the early years. Some parts of the south side of the mall was enclosed in 1995. Many of the original tenants have left and in their place new stores reflecting the retail trends within the Chinese community in the Greater Toronto Area.
The mall was threatened with new competition by the newer Pacific Mall, which took the place of Cullen Country Barns, but the two malls have co-existed as a joint retail mecca. Indeed, as the existing traffic and parking was already congested with the opening of Market Village, the addition of Pacific Mall has made these problems significantly worse (for instance, the underground parking in Pacific Mall is not nearly enough to handle the customers attracted by the new complex).

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Tenants

Future expansion

See also

Footnotes

External links

Tenants

Most stores are family run stores, but there are a few non-Chinese retailers and some stores with links to Hong Kong. Some stores, along with these in Pacific Mall, have been targeted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for selling counterfeit DVDs and CDs. There are currently 149 stores in market village listed on the map at the front entrance.
A list of current and major tenants at the mall:

★ Bank of Montreal

★ HSBC

★ W.Y. Trading

★ My Heart

★ City Hollywood Cafe

★ City Inn Chinese Cuisine

★ Gui Hua Tang

★ Sam's Congee Delight

★ Wonton Time

★ Yan Woo Soya Bean

★ Curry's Art Store

★ Market Bill Trading

★ Food Fair Supermarket

★ Goldfield Supermarket

★ McDonald's

★ Bell World

★ One's Better Living

★ JCY House

★ LCBO
Former tenants:

★ Just Desserts

★ Pro Hardware

★ Chinese theatre

Future expansion

On June 15, 2006, Pacific Mall and Market Village announced plans for a major expansion to the south shopping complex in south Markham. An additional 400,000 square feet (37,000 m²) of retail space, a luxury hotel and a multi-level parking structure is to be built. The project is expected to begin in a year or two, and would bring the combined size of the two malls to about 1 million square feet (92,900 square meters).^[1]

See also

★ Toronto's Chinatowns

★ List of Canadian Chinatowns

★ Pacific Mall

★ The Landmark (Toronto)

★ Splendid China Tower

Footnotes

1. Duelling malls Andrea Lau

External links

★ Mattism: The Evolution of Steeles and Kennedy

★ Market Village