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12-607: Conestoga Mall may refer to: Conestoga Mall (Waterloo, Ontario) Conestoga Mall (Grand Island, Nebraska) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Conestoga Mall . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conestoga_Mall&oldid=932772993 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

24-453: A major $ 75 million redevelopment project. The project began in mid-2006, and was completed in the spring of 2010. Details of the project include a 130,000-square-foot (12,000 m ) expansion on the south end of the property, a renovation and upgrade to the existing building, a new 700-seat food court with a new south end mall entrance, and a pedestrian-friendly façade. The redevelopment was also to include significant traffic improvements to

36-473: A variety of exhibits illustrating everyday life in the liquor distillery in the late 19th and early 20th century. The company closed its Waterloo plant in 1992, and the museum continued to operate for another five years. It narrowly escaped a fire in 1993 that destroyed the building next to it. The City of Waterloo purchased the Seagram property for $ 4 million in the fall of 1997. The museum donated its archives to

48-418: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Conestoga Mall (Waterloo, Ontario) Conestoga Mall has over 130 stores and services. The mall has a Food Court featuring 14 vendors and a Galaxy Cinema. Anchor tenants include Hudson's Bay , Zehrs , Galaxy Cinemas , Winners , Sport Chek , Old Navy , and Shoppers Drug Mart . The mall, built in 1978,

60-558: The University of Waterloo . Two former barrelhouses on the site were converted into condominia while the museum became an office building, leased to software company Waterloo Maple . The company moved into the renovated building in June 1998. In July 2002, the city sold the building to the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) for $ 2.5 million. In September 2003, Waterloo Maple left

72-591: The Conestoga Mall Zehrs and replace it with a much larger approximately 16,300-square-metre (175,000 sq ft) Real Canadian Superstore . In September 2008, Loblaw sold its land holding to Intelligent Mechatronics Systems, a high tech company for $ 14.5 million. Seagram Museum The Seagram Museum was a museum in Waterloo , Ontario , Canada , preserving the heritage of the once venerable Canadian distillery Seagram . Located at 57 Erb Street West,

84-550: The King Street entrance of the mall. The intersection of Conestogo Road and Kraus Drive were replaced with a roundabout at the City of Waterloo's request. A second entrance was added to King Street in the form of a right in-right out intersection. The traffic upgrades were paid for by Ivanhoé Cambridge as a condition of the City of Waterloo issuing a building permit for the expansion of the shopping centre. The Bay (now " Hudson's Bay ")

96-529: The museum operated from May 1984 to March 1997. Designed by architect Barton Myers , it was built at a cost of $ 4.75 million and its entrance was a renovated late-19th century rack warehouse from the Seagram plant. Plans for the museum were announced in 1981. Peter Swann, a former director of the Royal Ontario Museum , was hired as the first director and oversaw the creation of the Seagram Museum. It had

108-455: The new Bay store and food court entrance. Conestoga Mall supports green electricity, purchasing 30% of its common area electricity requirements from Bullfrog Power. Loblaw Companies , which operates the Zehrs chain of grocery stores, has owned a large parcel of land to the southwest of Conestoga Mall. Despite much controversy with local citizens and the City of Waterloo, Loblaw planned to close

120-471: The new expansion to the City of Waterloo to establish a permanent museum for the city's heritage artifacts. Over 10,000 of the city's historical artifacts will be displayed in the City of Waterloo Museum. Waterloo's heritage collection has been mainly in storage over the past decade, with most of these artifacts coming from the closure of the Seagram Museum . The City of Waterloo Museum will be located between

132-477: Was moved slightly to the south and was completely rebuilt into a larger store. The new prototype Bay at Conestoga Mall was the first "green" store in the company's portfolio - complete with environmentally-conscious measures such as solar panels, wind turbines, recycled carpet, and waterless urinals. The company also introduced higher end products such as Chanel cosmetics to serve Waterloo's growing affluence. Conestoga Mall donated 4,000 square feet (370 m ) in

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144-485: Was one of the only buildings on this section of King Street. Since it opened, the mall has been expanded several times, and has contributed to the retail success of this area. Several big box retailers have opened on King Street North around the mall. In June 2023 Primaris REIT announced an intention to acquire the mall for $ 270 million from Ivanhoé Cambridge . The transaction closed in July 2023. Conestoga Mall underwent

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