Woodbine went from having 5 anchors stores in 2010 (the bay, zellers, Sears, rainbow cinemas, sportscheck.) To one (The bay) in 2020. That's a huge decrease when you think about it.
Imagine cinemas closed at woodbine. I went on imagine cinemas website. The page for woodbine shows a 404 error. Rexdale now has zero movie theatres. And woodbine is down to one anchor. The mall will surely die.
I recently went to the Albion mall. While there are still some stores closed the mall still has some some decent traffic going through it. I wonder how the mall will cope in the long run though
Toronto development application website
http://app.toronto.ca/DevelopmentApplications/associatedApplicationsList.do?action=init&folderRsn=3478858&isCofASearch=false&isTlabSearch=false
realistically the mall will most likely close and be demolished.
-The owner is clearly incompetent.
-Casino Woodbine and the planned Costco/ plaza at Islington and Rexdale blvd will out-compete the mall at attracting new retail.
-Albion mall will mostly outcompete woodbine in the near future...
I remember the blockbusters that use to be there and Reitman's.
Albion is a lot busier than woodbine due to its location. A bunch of people live within walking distance.
I'm interested in what the future holds with the finch west lrt being built near it. there is plenty of space in the north...
with the finch west lrt I feel that most of the development will occur around in emery village (8 condos are proposed so far) and the mount olive area (1 condo and 2 apartments buildings have been proposed so far). both areas are too far from woodbine centre to make an impact in my opinion...