List of shopping malls in Toronto


The following is a list of shopping malls in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The first enclosed shopping mall in Toronto was the Toronto Arcade in the downtown core. The first shopping mall of the enclosed, automobile-centred design type was Yorkdale Shopping Centre, opened in 1964. For shopping malls surrounding the city of Toronto, please see the template at the bottom of this article.

Major shopping centres

These shopping centres each have over a hundred stores and are anchored by multiple department stores. They are also the five largest malls in Toronto. Each provides thousands of automobile parking spaces. With the exception of Sherway Gardens, all of these malls have direct pedestrian connections with the Toronto subway system, though Sherway Gardens has bus connections through the Toronto Transit Commission's bus network and MiWay of Mississauga. Yorkdale is Toronto's first major shopping centre and was the world's largest when it was first opened. The Toronto Eaton Centre is the most visited shopping mall in North America, given its downtown location and direct access to two subway stations. These five malls were completed within a 13-year span. A sixth major mall, East Harbour, is planned for Toronto's east end by the interchange of Don Valley Parkway and Gardiner Expressway/Lake Shore Boulevard East.
is the second largest shopping centre in Toronto, and the fifth largest in Canada.
NameDistrictMajor intersectionDirect subway connectionDeveloper/operatorRetail spaceYear opened
Fairview MallNorth YorkDon Mills Road—Sheppard AvenueDon MillsCadillac Fairview1970
Scarborough Town CentreScarboroughMcCowan Road—Highway 401Scarborough CentreOxford Properties1973
Sherway GardensEtobicokeThe Queensway—The West MallCadillac Fairview1971
Toronto Eaton CentreOld TorontoYonge Street—Dundas Street
Yonge Street—Queen Street		Dundas
Queen		Cadillac Fairview1977
Yorkdale Shopping CentreNorth YorkAllen Road—Highway 401YorkdaleOxford Properties1964

District or neighbourhood shopping centres

The district or neighbourhood level of shopping centres in Toronto are typically built around one or a few department stores or grocery supermarkets and are enclosed. These shopping centres typically provide a surrounding free parking lot. Most of these are located in the suburbs of Toronto, where land was available for parking. There are only three shopping malls of this type within Toronto's pre-1998 city limits: Galleria Shopping Centre, Dufferin Mall, and Gerrard Square. There are a few ethnic malls of this type as well.
is a shopping centre built in suburban Toronto, built between Bayview Village and Willowdale neighbourhoods.
is a Chinese-themed ethnic shopping centre located in the Milliken neighbourhood. The mall is across Steeles Avenue from Pacific Mall in Markham.
One configuration of shopping mall in Toronto is the self-contained type located within a commercial office building, sometimes around a central atrium. This type typically does not provide a surrounding parking lot. These malls typically house from a dozen to several dozen stores. Most of these are connected to a station of the Toronto subway system. In the case of the Hudson's Bay Centre, the mall connects the department store to the Toronto subway system at Bloor–Yonge station. These malls are located in the core, unless marked otherwise:
In Downtown Toronto, primarily in the Financial District, there are interconnected shopping malls located one flight of stairs underground. The complex as a whole is named 'PATH'. The Toronto Eaton Centre is connected to the complex. The complex has 1,200 stores, and according to Guinness World Records, the PATH is the largest underground shopping complex in the world with of retail space.
Open-air shopping plazas are larger collections of stores built with surrounding parking areas, with parking spaces separated from the storefronts by sidewalks. These shopping centres generally serve the local surrounding area and have a large proportion of family-run businesses, some of which are ethnic.
is one of several open-air malls in Toronto.
mainly consist of major national and international big-box stores with large amounts of parking space separate from the stores themselves, and which serve a larger area than the open-air shopping plazas do.
is an example of an early power centre, one of several that can be found in the city.
The markets are housed indoors with stalls of independent vendors.
The following shopping malls have been demolished or closed. Some have been replaced by new strip plazas or re-developed for non-retail uses: