Westgate Shopping Centre (Ottawa)

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1309 Carling Ave, Ottawa, ON K1Z 7L3, Canada

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N45° 23' 12.876" W75° 44' 7.836"   (45.38691, -75.73551) Start navigation »

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Westgate Shopping Centre is a small scale (165,842 sq ft) shopping centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located southwest of downtown, bordering Carling Avenue, Merivale Road, and Highway 417, owned by RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust.
The mall opened May 12, 1955, and is considered Ottawa's first shopping centre. The anchor of the mall was Freiman's department store, owned by Lawrence Freiman who already had a department store on Rideau Street. In advertising for its grand opening, Westgate boasted that it had parking for over 1200 cars, weather-protected shopping and music for its customers.At its opening some of the stores that were in the mall were Freimans, Steinberg's, Tip Top Tailors, Reitmans, Kiddytown and a branch of Royal Bank of Canada. The Royal Bank is the last original tenant.
A proposed reconstruction would have the mall demolished and replaced with a commercial and residential building.

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