Last Days Of Centerpoint Mall: Walking North On Yonge From Finch Ave To Toronto's Northern Boundary

[@TroyQwert]

I am shopping at Center Point Mall every week, at NoFrills. Was there this Friday. Doesn't look like it is about to close. Working fine, like any other mall.

[@johnpatterson4272]

The Centrepoint Mall was originally known as the Towne and Country Mall in the 70s and 80s. At the time it was the outer limit of the urban retail district of northern Yonge Street. Its movie theatres were always full, I remember watching Police Academy, The Natural, Yentl, Streets of Fire and Bill Murray's Scrooge there. It had every retail chain-store imaginable at the time. In the opinion of many the destruction of the mall not only removes a meeting place for people, it also will void another monument of true Canadian culture.

[@TheFriendlyGee]

The movie theatres were amaaaazing. $Two-Fifty Tuesdays - mid 80s

[@TheKenContinuum]

The good old days! haha

[@Shirley-v3g]

@@johnpatterson4272 - yes of course - very sad to see this place go 🥲

[@feponcio]

Back when it was known as "Towne and Countrye Square", I remember in 1974 seeing the movie "Herbie Rides Again" in its theatres.

[@bobbyjames4300]

I went there in the 70’s with my parents , state of the art at the time.

[@splashenful]

I grew up in Thornhill (moved to Mississauga in 2008), & frequently visited Centerpoint Mall, even back when it was originally called Towne & Countrye Mall.

[@robertvisquo308]

My late father re-built a large part of Centrepoint back when it was called Town & Country. I'll miss it.

[@TheKenContinuum]

That's awesome!

[@orangewedges]

Aw, I remember going to this mall a lot as a kid back when it was called Town & Country. My brother got lost while we were in the foodcourt and we eventually found him at the fountains lol.

[@adampolak3992]

I remember this mall had a target

[@dean_to2878]

I remember the Woolco. My Dentist was there.

[@msspiced7594]

Thanks for updating us with what's happening to the major structures in our cities. 🎉❤🎉

[@TheKenContinuum]

You bet!

[@canman5060]

The staircase of Finch Station hasn't changed for over 45 years !

[@tima5429]

My mom worked at the North York hydro on Yonge Street just south of Cummer Ave. She took advantage of the amalgamation retirement package. I remember going to the mall as a kid with her to the small family restaurant back in 76.

[@khalajanskitchen7456]

I remember when this mall was called town and country mall . There used to be Loblaws where there is no frills . Really enjoyed the video .

[@TheKenContinuum]

Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it!

[@skyking0011]

It was Woolco before that

[@shirleybryant3525]

I lived at Yonge/Finch in the 80’s for about 5 yrs. The area has changed exponentially with the rise of condo and office towers. Centre Point Mall, at that time, had higher end stores, and I hadn’t returned there for many yrs, until about 8-10 yrs ago. I was actually surprised the mall has more of those disposable wear stores. I did enjoy going through there, some of the shops I had never seen before, they were foreign. I was there last year again, just on a venture, and was surprised that it was being considered for demolition and re-development.

[@splashenful]

I lived in Thornhill practically all my life right up until 2008. I still go back, of course (because for one thing, my father is buried in Thornhill).

[@Linda-o8j]

Yes alot foreign stores. Beautiful things

[@patricialedinek7355]

Grew up in Thornhill which is North of this Mall . I got my first job when I was in high school at the Fairweather clothing store in the Centerpoint mall. Thanks for the walk down memory lane and I had no idea that they will be tearing down this mall

[@TheKenContinuum]

Sure thing, & thanks for sharing!

[@splashenful]

I grew up in Thornhill too.

[@garfieldsmith332]

Lived in Thornhill for about 3 years. Remember Town and Country Mall.

[@UnderestimatedUproblem]

My Bank Scotia luckily I moved it downtown. Bye😅

[@juliepeden4866]

I knew it as Town and Country with the movie theatre beside the Canadian Tire. It was my hang out place with friends. Sad it’s being torn down, but I guess it’s necessary for growth in the area.

[@TheKenContinuum]

Nothing stays the same for long in Toronto! haha

[@ralphkrahn7440]

Bitter sweet My how things move along ,in life We get to see changes in our own lifetime Great show !

[@TheKenContinuum]

Thanks for watching!

[@Glytched356]

My first jobs were at Centerpoint mall! BiWay and the Bay! Yep, BiWay. Lasted 2 weeks. (This was late 1999) -- then during my York U years I worked at the Chapters across the street.

[@tombikes4164]

Wasn't Biway up on Doncaster?

[@gabithemagyar]

This was our "go to" mall when we lived in the Glen Shields area (Dufferin and Steeles) in the late 1980's through the late 1990's. It had a lot of useful stores at the time.

[@TonieNorman-g3h]

A very enjoyable walk Ken. Thank you. My first time to see this mall, I tend to like these smaller size shopping places. Sorry to see it go.

[@TheKenContinuum]

Thanks for watching!

[@robertmacbean4405]

I worked in the beckers milk store and sayvettes in the receiving department. Then I worked the lunch counter in sliverstiens department store. Sure miss those days.

[@RagingCanuck]

The closure of the Pickle Barrel is a great loss to this mall. In the mid-‘70s, it was the most convenient shopping venue for York University students, of which I was one, because the Steeles 60 bus - one of only two bus routes available in what was then North York hinterland - went right by it. The mall was much better then, with a greater variety of offerings, and two theatres. Ten years later, its biggest draw was a Bally Shoes outlet store, where, amazingly, one could buy Swiss Ballys for a fraction of their retail price. Now, the only reason I go there is to attend the antique market held on the Sundays before holiday Mondays.

[@TheKenContinuum]

Thanks for watching & sharing!

[@gostling]

Same bus still going only way if you're coming from that end haha

[@MichelleBruce-lo4oc]

Hi Ken, awesome live video walk. I enjoyed it. How are you doing? I'm doing well, just enjoying the warm weather. Have a good night. See you next video 😊❤

[@TheKenContinuum]

Thanks! You too!

[@heidibee501]

Like l said, NOW, that the Centerpoint Mall, is slated to go. *Where are PEOPLE who DON'T DRIVE, SUPPOSED to SHOP?*

[@pauly5418]

I don't understand it. With all the condos going up all around, places like this will be needed even more. Why can't this development incorporate some of this retail. People will need a grocery store, pharmacy, restaurants and more. A park is nice, but nothing else but condos is a horrible place to live.

[@gmcnewlook]

@@pauly5418even promenade is getting redeveloped to have “retail” space in the towers that they are slowly building (the space where Sears was already has a tower )

[@ryanm7171]

I actually worked at the Bank of Montreal within the mall back in the 1990s. The mall has certainly changed since I was there.

[@petermarrone4138]

I lived right across the street at Yonge and athabaska for 26 years brings back memories.

[@TheKenContinuum]

Thanks for watching!

[@Mytimenow123]

I grew up enjoying going to this mall.

[@TheKenContinuum]

Thanks for watching!

[@azamyahmad]

Absolutely another beautiful sharing adventure and lovely piece of work ! .. TQSM

[@TheKenContinuum]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@rogertemple7193]

This was a great walk seeing the mall and to bad it won't be around for very much longer but something else will replace it eventually with new high rise apartments thanks again Ken.👍🇨🇦

[@TheKenContinuum]

You bet, Roger!

[@LetsGO-dz5wg]

Hi Ken Grew up going to a Towne and Country Mall/ Centerpoint as we were based at Bayview and Steeles. We used to go to see movies there near the CT

[@TheKenContinuum]

Ah, right on!

[@Shirley-v3g]

I grew up in this area - my dad bought a semi detached home for $26,900.00 - Yonge & Steeles - almost beside Newtonbrook high school - 1966

[@TheKenContinuum]

Wow!

[@shirleybryant3525]

Wow!! That’s a huge undertaking with all the proposed buildings. That’s gonna years in the making

[@tombikes4164]

It's great to see so much interest in this video. I also grew up in this area and still visit my childhood house that my parents bought in the 50s. Towne and Country Square was a big part of my childhood - the many movies I saw there (especially Star Wars!), Sayvette (then Woolco), Miracle Mart, etc. I used to play on the huge mounds of snow they ploughed in the parking lot. Anyway, this type of mall is a thing of the past - it is car-centric, an inefficient use of land and at a key intersection that will have a subway stop in the future. It makes sense that they should develop it for housing. I think it will include widening and lengthening of Lariviere Rd to the south. (Check out the big empty field at the end of Fargo that has never been developed. It's probably next for more housing).

[@TheKenContinuum]

Thanks for sharing, Tom!

[@marjuvagcris7699]

I used to live here before beside Canadian Tire n Zellers still there till move to Wilson n Bathurst.

[@Linda-o8j]

I love Toronto. Alot good memories!!! ❤ 😊

[@HAMBURGER-s1l]

Great memories....great times.

[@brigittegesierich7666]

Hi Ken. Thx so much for this awesome walk. I love walking malls and enjoyed it very much. This one too will be gone soon I guess. Take care and do stay safe.

[@TheKenContinuum]

You're very welcome!

[@heidibee501]

My mother moved us up to Willowdale (part of what was later known as the City of North York) in the late 60s. She felt unsafe in Toronto after a murder on our street. It was a harder ride downtown as the subway only came to Eglinton (now it stops at Finch). When my hubby and l bought our house it was next to Northtown Plaza (an amazing outdoor accessible) plaza that had every kind of store from chocolatier to furniture. Of course they closed it and to this day it remains nondescript. Suddenly (during the Harris days) TORONTO FOLLOWED us and SWALLOWED us and stability left the building. Now the last bastion of normalcy, Centerpoint mall, is slated to go. *Where are PEOPLE who don't drive, SUPPOSED to SHOP?*

[@Noizemaze4]

From online, where expensive chinese products that don't last more than a month are flooding the Internet, you will live in a pod, eat the bugs and be happy, and never have to travel ever again - says the WEF and their puppet Trudeau

[@mikelBulschevitz]

I used to come here as a kid when the nofrills was a Dominion

[@sepandttcexplorer]

Nice tour around Centrepoint mall Ken, I’ve been to that mall so many times!

[@TheKenContinuum]

Thanks, Sepand!

[@ansac3000]

Don't hold your breath....just one km down the street, cummer plaza was torn down years ago and still NOTHING has been put up!

[@garfieldsmith332]

Twas once a nice quiet neighbourhood in the 80s. And farms still north of Steeles in the 70s. Now all highrise cement and steel. Wonder what Willowdale and Senlac look like today.

[@mikeyitalian1981]

Centrepoint mall not going anywhere yet i used to work there for 10 years at loblaws. I was there few days ago and know the workers there and i talk to him he says there is no word whats going to happen because the city as not made a decision or approved anything

[@blaqceeza]

I remember that mall as a child as Towne and Countrye. My mother took me to see Fantasia there in the early 80s. Good times!

[@deerock153]

I'll remember the Kmart (with the restaurant) and then Target, which didn't last too long in canada

[@schnuurtchke]

Good evening Ken from Guelph Ontario

[@canman5060]

Good-Bye Town and Country Mall.

[@jannaasistores5822]

Lots of memories.. i once live in thornhill😊

[@splashenful]

I did too. I grew up there. Moved to Mississauga in 2008.

[@kobiimpraim4838]

Northeast of Yonge and Steeles is THORNHILL. Markham is further east of it. Also for the old school we loving remember Centerpoint as Town and Country.

[@TheKenContinuum]

Thornhill is part of both Markham & Vaughan since it's both East & West of Yonge St.

[@torontowalker17]

Don't forget everyone Ken will continue

[@TheKenContinuum]

Yup

[@user-vi7rj9co5j]

Calm down everyone; the mall is not going to be demolished -- they will build condos ABOVE the mall -- it will be part of the new development.

[@jjes181]

Thank you for this, I've just been introduced to your channel. Such a shame that another one bites the dust.

[@TheKenContinuum]

Sure thing, & welcome to the channel!

[@ralphkrahn7440]

And BadBoy is history !

[@boiivilla6327]

We have relatives in Bathurst street and finch...we use to eat at center point mall...and buy things....why they have to close it ??? They have a lot of eatery at the food court...dollar store...Canadian tire...and many more....now nowhere to visit...

[@azamarabear]

Wow😮

[@supercompooper]

I like this mall

[@kathyguinto4585]

nice looking building

[@Yahiathetransitguy]

What's happening to the mall I don't see any news about this

[@Junknown764]

Nothing, it's clickbait. This mall is going to be a goldmine once the condos and subway station gets built.

[@CJ-mw9gz]

​@@Junknown764needs a full reno though

[@ceciliali6807]

@@Junknown764Thanks

[@rmmldrakes1984]

I am sure they arent completely removed the mall....they may retain a retail chain there after they build a condo complex. In addition, there is a plan to build a subway line connecting finch station all the way to as far as york region. Thats basicly connecting the people living the area north of Steels. This means, more people, prices of condo units will jump up.....the other question too is, what about the old apartment buildings in the area? they are at least going to 50 years old...it wont be up for standard and eventually going to demolished...

[@shachar777]

When fit 4 less comes to a mall, you know it is in decline. I enjoyed this walk.🎉

[@KK-pv5bo]

The mall should be renovated instead of being turned into those monster condos

[@kathyguinto4585]

hudson bay is in nyc too they own saks fifth avenue store

[@stevestevens502]

that relaunch of zellers is absolutely pathetic lol

[@JesusIsComing77736]

My sister and I moved from Scarborough to Thornhill in 2022. I have been to CenterPoint Mall a few times and have not heard that the Mall was getting torn down. Do you know when this is supposed to happen because I would like to let my friends who go to the mall as well.

[@TheKenContinuum]

There's no set date for its closure as far as I know, the redevelopment plans are going through the usual process.

[@tonywong7431]

it was town and country before

[@TheKenContinuum]

I mentioned that in the video!

[@robertpalermo7750]

Do you know when construction is set to begin?

[@TheKenContinuum]

No date has been announced, it's still going through the approval process.

[@Dan-p3m]

The Centrepoint Mall most likely won’t be demolished till late 2025 or 2026. I suggest you do a walking tour of Woodbine Shopping centre out in Etobicoke. There was talk about that being redeveloped but it’s mostly like CentrePoint Mall, a lot of ma pa shops.

[@TheKenContinuum]

I'd like to a walk there!

[@Alex-bf9ec]

Don’t forget the indoor amusement park inside!

[@Alex-bf9ec]

@@TheKenContinuumYou should! Just take the 927 Highway 27 bus from Kipling station to Queen’s Plate drive.

[@stevestevens502]

that mall is up for sale now. its sad to see what happened to that mall. the mall is half vacant

[@latexdrc]

Tim Horton a must

[@Hicks-g1m]

That's really sad that centerpoint mall is going away Ken it looks like a cool mall

[@TheKenContinuum]

The end is nigh.

[@yobrewop123]

I see all the plazas and malls over the GTA are tearing down to build condominiums or townhouses

[@TheKenContinuum]

Yes, it's happening all over the GTA!

[@hiddenrainn]

So it Centerpoint Mall closing down anytime soon? I was just there a month ago and enjoyed Jollibee!

[@TheKenContinuum]

Haven't heard anything about a closing date yet.

[@menguardingtheirownwallets6791]

Finch subway station: what on Earth is going on with the ceiling at that station? It looks like a bomb blew it to pieces?

[@TheKenContinuum]

I noticed that, too.

[@carminelombardi9575]

Wow, I didn't know, when is it officially closing.

[@TheKenContinuum]

No set date yet.

[@rezaahari2207]

Ugly food court 4 such expensive neighbourhood

[@gostling]

WHY WOULD THEY GET RID OF THAT MALL

[@TheKenContinuum]

I guess the land is more suited as a location for housing.

[@consaboramiel]

For a person that doesn't know the area, you didn't say the name of the streets and mostly you showed what you had on your side and not what you had in front, or if you showed it, it was so quick that it wasn't enough to see what was over there...

[@TheKenContinuum]

The whole walk was just along Yonge St, I didn't think it was necessary to mention other streets.

[@bluelabel222]

A new mall being built or is it getting replaced by another condominium?? 😢

[@TheKenContinuum]

It's being replaced by a large development of many residential towers.

[@ellensuzanneu6434]

They not closing Centerpoint Mall tommarrow been talkingvover five years now

[@TheKenContinuum]

Not tomorrow, but the redevelopment wheels are in motion.

[@amindra963]

NO PEOPLE!

[@tonywong7431]

no more centerpoint mall? when ?

[@TheKenContinuum]

Whenever the redevelopment proposal is approved and the developer is ready to proceed.

[@cherrylove1293]

Not many things to see and buy there. Toronto is like that old and not much to see.

[@treplay8846]

Not closing

[@k.k.4569]

is it true? how do u know?

[@TheKenContinuum]

Yeah, there's a redevelopment notice right in front of the mall.

[@rezaahari2207]

Not good looking building compared poorer countries mall,subway but util to get basic stuff

[@chrisyung4055]

Too bad Lotd of business there. Gatherings for seniors im the neigjbpurhood.

[@kathyguinto4585]

some of those buildings in the picture look to between 15 to 21 stories the size of down town syracuse office towers and skyscrapers tall but not as tall as toronto and new york city buildings both cities have large and small towers and the new development has 50 stories its sad to see the mall get torn ddown for that

[@edwardgreig36]

This name has been controversial for a long time. Glad the Center name will be gone