Mayflower Mall
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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; it is also the main fashion shopping destination in the community. The mall features a diverse anchor mix including Best Buy, Winners, Sport Chek, Michaels, Staples.
History
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. Simpsons was converted back to Hudson's Bay along with the stores in Halifax and Dartmouth by July 1986.
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.
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