| Market Square Shopping Centre | |
| Address: | 25 Frederick Street Kitchener, Ontario N2H 6M8 |
| Coordinates: | 43.4492°N -80.4868°W |
| Opening Date: | 1973 |
| Number Of Stores: | ~6 (16 retail spaces mostly vacant or repurposed) |
| Number Of Anchors: | 1 |
| Floors: | 2 (4 with non-retail areas) |
| Floor Area: | Over 22421.3m2 - mixed retail, office space |
| Website: | (Leasing site for Europro) |
Market Square Shopping Centre is a mall located in the downtown core of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, whose tenancy skews to services.
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 (opened in 1973 and later became a Sears Canada retail store[1]), and home to the Kitchener Farmer's Market from 1973 to 2004. Eaton's closed on June 30, 1997, one of the company's first locations to shut down following its restructuring announcement.[2]
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.
The mall has since declined, through the 1990s (with a half empty food court[3] with long time McDonald's leaving in 2015) as shoppers have fled to larger malls in Regional Municipality of Waterloo like Conestoga Mall in Waterloo or Fairview Park Mall or Cambridge Centre to the south.
In January 2020, Conestoga College opened an 7600m2 campus in the building, occupying about of the centre's space.[4] The other major tenants were triOS College and The Record, the latter of which occupied 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. triOS and the Record departed in the following years.
The mall has a multi-level indoor parking along Duke Street and a walkway across to Oxlea Tower (22 Frederick Street), 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.[5]
Grand River Transit has a number of routes that have stops around the complex:
Bus Routes
Light Rail