Central City Shopping Centre

Central City Shopping Centre is a shopping mall and office tower complex in Whalley/City Centre, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, which is owned by Blackwood Partners Management Corporation. It is near Surrey Central and King George SkyTrain stations. It was designed by Bing Thom Architects. It is the second largest mall in Surrey, smaller than Guildford Town Centre . A major portion of the upper shopping centre floors also host one of the three Simon Fraser University campuses.History & developmentThe initial development of the mall was not the existing building today. Originally it was built in the 1970s as a standalone mall and was managed and owned by the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia. It underwent renovations and refurbishments throughout the 1980s and 90s however the construction of the Port Mann Bridge and the popularity of Guildford Town Centre began to challenge the mall's position as a dominant shopping centre. By the late 1990s the foot traffic of the mall suffered severely and many stores became untenanted. However in 1999, part of the mall was sold off and was redeveloped with an expansion of the mall to include a new podium and a high rise office tower also known as the Central city tower. From 2003 to 2017, the Central city tower was the tallest building in Surrey. In 2007, the rest of Central City mall was sold to Blackwood Partners Management Corporation. In recent years, the mall has been affected by the closings of Target Canada and Future Shop, but Walmart Canada took over the Target Canada's location in the shopping centre including Best Buy.