Orchard Park Shopping Centre Explained

Orchard Park Shopping Centre
Address:2271 Harvey Avenue
Kelowna, British Columbia
V1Y 6H2
Coordinates:49.88°N -119.44°W
Opening Date:1971
Owner:Primaris REIT
Number Of Stores:over 170
Number Of Anchors:6
Floor Area:685000square feet[1]
Floors:1

Orchard Park Shopping Centre is a regional shopping mall in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest shopping mall in the Okanagan. It is located on the major provincial highway, Harvey Avenue (Highway 97), at the intersections of Cooper Road and Dilworth Drive, south of Dilworth Mountain. With over 170 shops and services,[2] Orchard Park Shopping Centre is the largest shopping mall between Greater Vancouver and the Calgary Region.[3]

History

Orchard Park opened September 28, 1971 on a former orchard. The original mall layout included anchors Simpsons-Sears and The Bay (although The Bay was not completed until 1972) and a corridor of 35 smaller stores. In 1980, the mall expanded with Woolco department store and a food court. It expanded again in 1992 with Eatons before reaching its current size in 2011 when Best Buy opened.

On October 10, 2017, Sears Canada announced it would seek court approval to shut down all of its remaining stores, including its Sears and Sears Home locations at Orchard Park. Both stores started liquidation sales soon after; Sears Home closed in November, and Sears full-line department store closed on January 8, 2018. Demolition of the latter store commenced in March.

Transportation

Orchard Park Shopping Centre is one of the major transit exchanges in Kelowna. Kelowna Regional Transit System has several routes connecting the shopping centre to the rest of the city. It is also serviced by Cooper Station on the RapidBus, a bus rapid transit line connecting West Kelowna and Downtown Kelowna to UBCO.

Anchor stores

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Former

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Portfolio . Primaris Retail REIT . 2011-11-06 . 2011-09-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110925073908/http://www.primarisreit.com/portfolio.php?Overview-1 . live .
  2. Web site: Store Listings . Orchard Park Shopping Centre. 2007-03-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070310223233/http://www.orchardparkshopping.com/SearchResults.aspx?parent=1 . 2007-03-10.
  3. Web site: Shopping Info . Orchard Park Shopping Centre. 2007-03-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070320105915/http://www.orchardparkshopping.com/Contents.aspx?parent=1&ContentID=shoppinginfo . 2007-03-20.
  4. Web site: Both local Sears on block . Trevor . Nichols . Oct 2, 2017 . www.castanet.net . December 29, 2021 . January 7, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190107064848/https://www.castanet.net/edition/news-story-208011-6-.htm . live .