Market Square Shopping Centre (Kitchener)


Market Square Shopping Centre is a mall located in downtown Kitchener, Ontario, whose tenancy skews to services.

History

Built between 1971 and 1973 on the grounds of the original Kitchener City Hall in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. It was home to an Eaton's, and home to the Kitchener Farmer's Market from 1973 to 2004. A glass clock tower at the corner of King and Frederick Streets pays homage to the former city hall clock tower, which is now located at Victoria Park, Kitchener.

Decline

The mall has since declined, through the 1990s as shoppers have fled to larger malls in Waterloo Region like Conestoga Mall in Waterloo or Fairview Park Mall or Cambridge Centre to the south.
In January 2020, Conestoga College opened an campus in the building, occupying about of the centre's space. The other major tenants are triOS College and The Record, the latter of which occupies a former Sears Outlet store. Few retail stores remain in the mall, which is now primarily used as office space. Nordia Inc. operated a call centre on the uppermost floor of the former Eaton's until 2019.
The mall has a multi-level indoor parking along Duke Street and a walkway across to Oxlea Tower, a large office tower across Frederick Street.
The mall is now owned by Europro Real Estate, which owns a number of buildings in the city's core.

Tenants

has a number of routes that have stops around the complex:
Bus Routes
Light Rail