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Yorkdale Shopping Centre is an upscale shopping mall in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It...

Yorkdale Shopping Centre is an upscale shopping mall in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It contains over 250 stores and is located in the community of Downsview, in the former City of North York, a former suburb of Toronto. It is the fifth largest shopping mall in Canada and also enjoys the highest sales per square foot of any mall in Canada, with current merchandise sales levels at approximately $1,000(CAD)/square foot. The centre draws in approximately 400,000 customers a week. The mall opened on February 26, 1964, under ownership from the Trizec Corporation. It was the first mall to include two major Canadian department stores: Simpson's and Eaton's, under the same roof. At the time of its opening, it was the largest shopping centre in the world. However, the Ala Moana Center in Honolulu, Hawaii took this title as the largest mall in the world just two years after Yorkdale opened. Yorkdale generated a tremendous amount of excitement when it first opened. Before large suburban malls like Yorkdale became popular, most people in the Toronto area did their major shopping downtown. Yorkdale was at the edge of the urbanized city, with only farmland around it. It was