Mayflower Mall facts for kids
| 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 |
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 an anchor mix including Best Buy, Winners, Sport Chek, Michaels, Staples, and Hudson's Bay.
The mall opened in 1980 with Hudson’s Bay, Dominion, and Woolco as original anchor stores. Shortly after opening, Hudson’s Bay was converted to Simpsons another department store chain owned by HBC in February 1983. In the 1982 HBC annual report mentions Simpsons having better market penetration joining the two other locations in Halifax and Dartmouth. Simpsons was converted back to Hudson’s Bay along with the stores in Halifax and Dartmouth by 1986. The Hudson’s Bay Company eventually retired the Simpsons nameplate in 1991. A stand-alone Sobeys was opened and the Woolco store was converted to Walmart in 1994 when Walmart bought the Woolco chain from Woolworth Canada. In the mid 2000s the Sobeys store closed and Walmart moved across the street to a new power centre development also owned by the mall. Around this time Mayflower Mall has been renovated with a new food court with the former Sobeys and Walmart locations being redeveloped into several new box stores.
