Talk:Canada's largest shopping malls
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Woodbine Centre is also a large mall in Toronto. It would probably fit on this list, although I cannot find an area listed on their website (woodbinecentre.ca). OzLawyer 01:10, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
"WOODBINE CENTRE Shopping Centre is a 713,857 sq. ft. regional shopping centre located in Etobicoke, Ontario at the corner of Hwy #27 and Rexdale Blvd. and has one of the most unique shopping environments in Ontario - Fantasy Fair, a 58,000 sq. ft indoor amusement park which provides drawing potential from far beyond its trade area. The shopping centre was built in 1985 and is comprised of over 150 shops and services including anchors Sears, The Bay, Zellers and Rainbow Cinemas and has parking for 3,580 vehicles."
Timminspress 01:33, 13 August 2006 (UTC)timminspress
Woodbine Centre's floor space is somewhat overstated due to the mix of retail and midway in the Fantasy Fair area. --Madchester 02:08, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Size of list
I would recommend setting some lower benchmark to the low list (say a million square feet) to prevent the list from getting too long. --Madchester 04:35, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
As the originator of this list I feel that cutting off the list at 1,000,000 square feet would be too exclusionary. For example, it would mean getting rid of all of the malls from Atlantic Canada. Also the very concept of what constitutes a large mall is highly subjective. In most parts of the country, a mall over 600,000 square feet would be considered quite large Timminspress 06:21, 13 August 2006 (UTC) timminspress
- We could categorize it by province or region?Luke 08:02, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
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- I agree, because right now the list is concentrated almost exclusively in Eastern Canada. -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 18:47, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Debate"
There may be a debate in the "real world", but this page is a list of shopping malls by retail floor space. As long as there isn't a debate about the retail floor space of a mall, there's no debate about its position. OzLawyer 21:21, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Confusing
I fail to see how this list is confusing, but just to make it even more clear, I made a slight rewording from "based on" to "ranked by" gross leasable area. Hopefully that should be straight forward enough: Here's a list of the biggest malls in Canada (by whatever measure you want to use) and they are ranked by gross leasable area. Now some people might say that equating the mall with the largest GLA area with the largest mall is misleading, but GLA is the most commonly used yardstick for gauging the size of a mall. Just look at the website of any big retail development company, all of their properties are listed in terms of GLA. Ranking malls based on total floor space (including corridors etc.) would pose its own set of problems when you get into malls that have things like amusements parks or hotels inside. For that reason any list of "largest malls" that I've ever seen has ranked malls by GLA. It isn't just some obscure and irrelevent measure that I decided to use just to create a misleading list. Timminspress 05:35, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
- I think this is the right way to do it. As I said above, there was no "debate" concerning ranking, since we had chosen a criterion (and one which wasn't arbitrary) and ranked according to it. └ OzLawyer / talk ┐ 13:48, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Also, I should mention that stats for the total area of most malls (other than West Edmonton) seem to be impossible to find, so it would be difficult to create a list based on that without violating Wikipedia's policies about orginal research. 208.101.91.76 18:39, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Table hiding
Over the past few days, I've had a problem with this article - the table is hidden, so I only see two paragraphs of text. I have the same problem with List of largest shopping malls in the United States. I haven't had time to investigate the problem, but I suspect it may be due to some stylesheet issue. If anyone has some time to spare, could you please take a look at it. (For the record, I use Firefox 1.5.0.4 on FreeBSD 6.0) Mindmatrix 14:15, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
