Polo Park (corporately styled as CF Polo Park) is a shopping center in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is situated on the former Polo Park Racetrack near the junction of Portage Avenue and St. James Street. Its grounds also include a Scotiabank Theatre (formerly SilverCity). The mall is currently anchored by Hudson’s Bay, forever 21, Urban Planet, Sport Chek, and EQ3.
History
The Polo Park Mall opened on Thursday, 20 August 1959, and became one of the first enclosed shopping malls in Canada when a roof was added in 1963, the other being the Park Royal Shopping Centre in BC.
The district was once the sports hub of Winnipeg, MB, with the Winnipeg Arena, Canad Inns Stadium, and Winnipeg Velodrome all located in the Polo Park neighborhood. The Velodrome was torn down in the 1990s to make way for a strip mall that includes Home Depot and Chapters. The arena and stadium have also been demolished and replaced by new retail and office complexes.
The former CKY building is situated next to the mall. It used to house the city’s CTV Television Network affiliate, CKY-TV, CKY radio, and FM 92 CITI. It was the original home of the WTN network. Corus Radio Winnipeg has occupied the building since 2011 as part of a lease agreement between Corus Entertainment and Cadillac Fairview. Studios for CJOB 680, CFPG-FM 99.1, and CJKR-FM 97.5 are located on the second floor of the three-story building. Bed Bug Exterminator Winnipeg
On October 10, 2017, Sears Canada announced the closure of all 130 of its remaining stores, which included the Polo Park location that had been part of the mall’s original store lineup since before its 1959 grand opening. The site closed in December of that same year, and the anchor was redeveloped between March 2018 and October 2021 to house new tenants. In addition, a new flagship EQ3 store relocated from its former freestanding store to the redeveloped building on November 3, 2021.
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