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 Aerial view of Hazeldean Mall | |
| Coordinates | 45°18′07″N 75°52′41″W / 45.302°N 75.878°W / 45.302; -75.878 |
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| Address | 300 Eagleson Road Ottawa, Ontario K2M 1C9 |
| Opening date | October 30, 1979 |
| Owner | Regional Group |
| No. of stores and services | 29 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 1 |
| No. of floors | 1 |
| Public transit access |  Hazeldean Mall |
| Website | hazeldeanmall |
Hazeldean Mall is a shopping mall located in the Kanata suburb of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located at the intersection of Eagleson Road and Hazeldean Road. It was the first enclosed shopping centre constructed in Kanata. The development of the mall was approved shortly before the incorporation of the City of Kanata in 1978, Its approval led to a legal battle between the constituent parts of the new municipality over the appropriate location of what would at that time be the new city's main commercial hub.
The site of the mall was zoned for commercial use in 1962. At the time, the surrounding community of Glen Cairn was being planned. The "Glen Cairn Shopping Centre" proposal was approved in 1978 by Goulbourn Township only months before it was amalgamated into the new City of Kanata. Neighbouring March Township initiated legal action, ultimately unsuccessful, to significantly reduce the size of the Glen Cairn Shopping Centre development on the grounds that it would adversely affect the market potential for March's own Kanata Town Centre development proposal. March Township officials hoped that the Kanata Town Centre project, located closer to the geographic centre of the new municipality, would spur development of a new retail and office core for Kanata. The competing Town Centre project eventually obtained final approvals in 1980, shortly after the Hazeldean Mall had opened.
The official opening of the Hazeldean Mall was October 30, 1979. With 55 stores, it was anchored by Steinberg's and Towers, and also contained a TD Bank, LCBO, Beer Store.
In the early 1990s, the Steinberg's chain closed, and was replaced by Laura's Your Independent Grocer. Around the same time, Towers was purchased by the Hudson's Bay Company which transformed many Towers stores, including the one at Hazeldean Mall, into Zellers stores. Drug City was also a major tenant during the 1980s, until it was replaced in the early 1990s by Pharma Plus.
In the mid-1990s, the Kanata Centrum shopping area on Terry Fox Drive opened. With its big box store concept, it lured customers away from Hazeldean Mall. Toward the end of the decade, the mall underwent an extensive period of renovations which completely removed the brick floors and wood panels, replacing them with much lighter coloured hues, and also saw the installation a fountain. Pharma Plus expanded into the space formerly occupied by the TD Bank, receiving a larger door leading directly to the outside.
In 2013, Zellers was replaced by a Target which closed in 2015. The space was left vacant until it was replaced with a GoodLife Fitness in 2021. Hazeldean Mall was purchased by Regional Group in August 2019. On July 22, 2022, Laura's Your Independent Grocer closed and relocated to Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre, leaving GoodLife Fitness as the mall's sole anchor.
OC Transpo provides bus service to and from Hazeldean Mall via routes 88, 110, 161, 164, 168, 665, 681 and 688.
References
- ^ Conners, Stanikys. Hazeldean Mall gets green light from Goulbourn, Ottawa Journal, 9 August 1978, page 13; Jackson, Wendy. Glen Cairn shopping centre approved, Ottawa Citizen, 9 August 1978, page 4.
- March carrying on the fight over Hazeldean shopping mall, Ottawa Journal, 16 August 1978, page 3.
- Planners praise town centre plan, Ottawa Citizen, 30 August 1978, page 4.
- Batt, Diana. Kanata Town Centre Plan Finally Approved, Ottawa Citizen, 18 January 1980, page 4.
- "Mall Opens Doors in October". Ottawa Citizen. 28 August 1979. p. 4.
- Turner, Karen (13 January 2013). "Real Deal: Countdown to Target". PressReader. Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- @GoodLifeFitness (December 14, 2021). "Our brand new Ottawa Hazeldean Mall Club is NOW OPEN" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- "Store Directory". Hazeldean Mall. Archived from the original on 31 May 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
External links
- Hazeldean Mall official site
- "Council meeting minutes" (PDF). City of Kanata. 20 June 2000. Retrieved 2007-10-25. Includes discussion of Hazeldean Mall expansion.