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| Coordinates | 46°8′47.9″N 60°8′15.8″W / 46.146639°N 60.137722°W |
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| Address | 800 Grand Lake Road Sydney, Nova Scotia B1P 6S9 |
| Opening date | 1980 |
| No. of stores and services | 75 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 6 |
| Total retail floor area | 416,327 sq ft (38,678.0 m2) |
| No. of floors | 1 |
| Website | mayflowermall |
The Mayflower Mall is a single level shopping mall in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is the only regional mall in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality of Nova Scotia, and the community's main destination for fashion shopping. The mall features a diverse anchor mix including Best Buy, Winners, Sport Chek, Michaels, Staples, and Hudson's Bay.[1]
The mall opened in 1980 with Hudson's Bay, Dominion, and Woolco as original anchor stores. Shortly after opening in February 1983, Hudson's Bay was converted to Simpsons, another department store chain owned by the Hudsons Bay Company (HBC). In the 1982 HBC annual report, it outlines the reason for conversion is Simpsons had better market recognition than The Bay (Hudson's Bay) in this part of the country.[2] Simpsons was converted back to Hudson's Bay along with the stores in Halifax and Dartmouth by July 1986.[3][4] During the early 1990s, a stand-alone Sobeys store was opened next to Woolco. In March 1994 Walmart bought 122 Woolco stores from Woolworth Canada in which the Mayflower Mall location was converted to Walmart. In the mid-2000s, Walmart moved across the street to a new big box power centre development also owned by the mall. On May 5, 2010, Sobeys closed the Mayflower mall location affecting 63 employees.[5] Around this time Mayflower Mall had been renovated with a new food court with the former Sobeys and Walmart spaces being redeveloped into several new retailers.
Walmart was redeveloped into Winners, Sport Chek, East Side Mario's, and Future Shop
Sobeys was redeveloped into Michaels, Mark's, and Pets Unlimited.
In 2015 Future Shop closed and was converted to Best Buy.
Urban Planet closed in 2020 with Old Navy moving into the space previously occupied by Urban Planet.
Dollarama opened in 2020.
Spring 2023 TJX opened a HomeSense location within Winners creating a hybrid banner location.