Pacific Mall

Pacific Mall
Aerial view of Pacific Mall
Map
LocationMarkham, Ontario, Canada
Coordinates43°49′35″N 79°18′23″W / 43.82639°N 79.30639°W / 43.82639; -79.30639
Opening date1996[1] or 1997[2]
DeveloperThe Torgan Group
OwnerPacific Mall Condominium Corporation
No. of stores and services450[3]
Total retail floor area270,000 sq ft (25,084 m2)
No. of floors3
Public transit access  43A  TTC Kennedy
 53  TTC Steeles East
 953  TTC Steeles East Express
YRT Route 8 Kennedy
GO Transit Milliken Station (Stouffville Line)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese太古廣場
Simplified Chinese太古广场
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinTàigǔ Guǎngchǎng
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanizationtaai3 gu2 gwong2 cheung4
Main entrance

Pacific Mall is an Asian shopping mall in Markham, Ontario, Canada. It is the largest indoor Asian shopping mall in North America and has been reported as the largest Asian shopping mall in the Western world. The mall is located on the northeast corner of Steeles Avenue and Kennedy Road, along the city limits with Toronto. Opened in the mid-1990s amid a period of significant Chinese immigration to Canada, the mall operates as a condominium corporation with 450 individual units. The mall also includes Heritage Town, a food court and market that functions as a notable tourist destination in the Greater Toronto Area.

The Remington Centre, a proposed shopping mall first announced in 2005, would occupy the site formerly held by Market Village, a now-defunct mall adjacent to Pacific Mall. The expansion would see the construction of a structure that would bring the combined size of the malls to 1,000,000 square feet (90,000 m2), though the project has faced numerous delays.

Pacific Mall is further noted as a location for the sale of counterfeit goods; stores in Pacific Mall have been raided multiple times by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and in 2018 the mall was listed as a notorious market by the Office of the United States Trade Representative.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference 1996 Opening was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference 1997 Opening was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Pacific Mall". Experience York Region. Regional Municipality of York. August 22, 2012. Retrieved November 18, 2019.