Park Royal Shopping Centre
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Shopping mall
A shopping mall, shopping centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct or simply mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area — a modern, indoor version...
located in West Vancouver, British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. Park Royal is officially Canada's first covered shopping mall. Park Royal currently markets itself as five star shopping and has undergone significant changes to attain this. The shopping centre was originally anchored by Woodward's.
The Centre was started alongside the Guinness family
Guinness family
The Guinness family is an extensive aristocratic Irish Protestant family noted for their accomplishments in brewing, banking, politics and religious ministry...
's British Properties
British Properties
The British Properties is a residential area in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was purchased by A.R. Guinness-Br. Pacific Properties in 1932 and developed as the British Properties. were purchased at a cost of $50 per acre. The British Properties helped finance the development and...
developments nearby, and was named after the London suburb of Park Royal
Park Royal
Park Royal is an area in northwest London, UK. It is the largest industrial and business park in London, occupying about , and is promoted commercially by the Park Royal Partnership...
where a Guinness brewery stood.
The mall is physically divided into two locations by Marine Drive, a major thoroughfare on the North Shore
North Shore (Greater Vancouver)
"Vancouver's North Shore" is a term commonly used to refer to several areas adjacent to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada:*the District of West Vancouver;*the City of North Vancouver;*the District of North Vancouver; and...
. The two sides are aptly named North Mall and South Mall, and are connected by overhead vehicle overpasses spanning over Marine Drive. The Park Royal South Mall was officially opened on August 3rd, 1978. The entire mall covers roughly 990,000 square feet (91,974 m²).
The Village
In late 2004, The Village was opened as an expansion of the South Mall, allowing for more stores and retail services. The Village was designed as a joint ventureJoint venture
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by the architectural firm
Architectural firm
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s, F+A Architects
F+A Architects
F+A Architects is an architectural firm with its main office in Pasadena, California. The firm was formed in 1973, and its work lay primarily in the planning and design of retail stores and shopping malls...
(Pasadena, California
Pasadena, California
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) and Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership (Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
). The 238,000 square foot (22,111 m²) expansion cost approximately $30 million Canadian dollar
Canadian dollar
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s. The Village is Canada
Canada
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's first lifestyle centre
Lifestyle center (retail)
A lifestyle center is a shopping center or mixed-used commercial development that combines the traditional retail functions of a shopping mall with leisure amenities oriented towards upscale consumers...
specifically designed for the affluent West Vancouver market, where all the retail locations offer mid to upscale lifestyle services. The Village is unique in that it aims to replicate the experience found at Whistler Village
Whistler, British Columbia
Whistler is a Canadian resort town in the southern Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in the province of British Columbia, Canada, approximately north of Vancouver...
, where consumers are predominantly in the open-air (outside) to browse the stores. A bowling alley and a golf
Golf
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practice range were demolished to make way for The Village. Home Depot's first Canadian urban concept store is located at The Village. It features pre-built fully furnished rooms and other customizable household furnishings for consumers to choose from.
Shops and services
Park Royal South anchor stores include Extra FoodsExtra Foods
Extra Foods is a Canadian supermarket chain, part of Loblaw Companies Limited. It operates 72 stores in Western Canada. Most Extra Foods stores are smaller than its sister chain, The Real Canadian Superstore, and most locations are in smaller, rural communities...
, SportChek, Atmosphere
Atmosphere
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, Future Shop
Future Shop
Future Shop is Canada's largest consumer electronics retailer. Future Shop currently operates a total of 146 stores across all of Canada's provinces as of December 2008....
, Winners, The Brick
The Brick
The Brick Ltd. opened its first store in Edmonton, Alberta in 1971, and has grown to become one of Canada's largest volume retailers of furniture, mattresses, appliances and home electronics. The company was founded as The Brick Warehouse LP in Edmonton, Alberta with the first warehouse opening on...
, Osaka Supermarket and Staples. As part of Park Royal's recent brand re-positioning into five star shopping, in April 2006, it re-opened its newly designed re-located food fair. The food fair, which features modern contemporary architecture, offers restaurant-like amenities (such as bussers), multiple high definition plasma screens, and a fireplace. An Indigo
Indigo Books and Music
Indigo Books & Music Inc. is a Canadian retail bookstore chain. The company was founded in 1996 by CEO Heather Reisman, wife of Gerry Schwartz, majority owner and CEO of Onex Corporation....
's bookstore with an integrated Starbucks opened in December 2006 at the previous food fair location.
Park Royal North anchor stores include H&M
H&M
H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB is a Swedish retail-clothing company, known for its fast-fashion clothing offerings for women, men, teenagers and children....
, London Drugs
London Drugs
London Drugs is a chain of Canadian retail stores with headquarters in Richmond, British Columbia. Its primary focus is on pharmaceuticals, electronics, housewares and cosmetics, with a limited selection of grocery items...
and The Bay
The Bay
The Bay is a chain of 91 department stores that operate across parts of Canada. It is the main brand of Hudson's Bay Company , North America's oldest company. It has its headquarters in the Simpson Tower in Toronto. In French, the chain is known as la Baie, short for "Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson"...
.
Park Royal also offers complimentary WiFi
WIFI
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service in the Food Court located in Park Royal South.
Anchor Stores:
(North Mall)
The Bay
London Drugs
H&M
(South Mall)
Winners
Staples
Future Shop
Sport Chek/Atmosphere
The Brick
Indigo Books
Extra Foods
Osaka Supermarket
Shoppers Drug Mart
(Village)
Whole Foods Market
Michael's
HomeSense
The Home Depot (urban concept store)
Old Navy
(Former Anchor Stores)
Eaton's
Woodward's
Woodward's Food Floor
Linens n' Things
Marks & Spencer
Transportation
Park Royal also acts as an area transit hub, with various TransLink buses and West Vancouver Blue BusWest Vancouver Blue Bus
West Vancouver Blue Bus Transit system began in 1912, and is the oldest continuously operated, municipal system in North America. These buses are part of the TransLink network but continue to be owned and operated by the District Municipality of West Vancouver under a contract to...
es serving this location.
See also
- List of largest shopping malls in Canada
- List of shopping malls in Canada
- Capilano MallCapilano MallCapilano Mall is a shopping mall in the City of North Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. It is located on Marine Drive, near the city's western border with the District of North Vancouver...
- Norgate shopping centreNorgate shopping centreNorgate shopping centre is a strip mall built in 1949, in the then-suburb of Saint-Laurent, Quebec, now the Saint-Laurent borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.-History:...
- first mall in Canada