Recent content by J-M-Z

I offend myself just walking into the Woodbine Centre these days.

Legend has it that The Bay was built on a Native Indian burial ground. A once sacred land that was inhabited by the Kahlou'S'auw't Kehihnge descendants. A lineage that can be traced back several generations through the extensive findings of local historian Jonathan Julias "JJ" Muggs. As a common...

'Development Potential', in my view, is a nice way of saying "this location would make for a pretty nice condo".

Funny enough, I do narrate a series of ghost stories. Leave a like if you'd to see an episode on the 'haunted' Woodbine Centre.

That's the business equivalent of using your neighbour's front yards for a garage sale that's never going to happen.

I would love to share my recent findings with the Urban Toronto mothership, but I was forced to sign an NDA after the security recognized me from my last Woodbine photoshoot.

Yes, holding them down and preventing them from escaping.

The creditors went to seize the property, propose punitive damages on the owner, then saw how the mall looked and said "nah, bro. You've suffered enough, lol".

Yes, hello there, hello. I am the owner of the Woodbine Centre; voted #837 on Closeout King's 'Best malls to visit in the GTA list', three years running. As a trusted business owner and accomplished entrepreneur in the retail sector, I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for continuing...

Thanks to Eugenio Arcilesi of Vintage Rexdale for this 1965 coloured photo of Rexdale Mall looking south towards Chilcot Ave. Eugenio was also kind enough to provide this accompanying photo from 1965 of the Candy Time shop in Rexdale Mall. See if you can spot the old Sears water tower in...

Thanks to Chuck Woodill over at the Vintage Rexdale facebook group for providing scans of this Albion Mall Restaurant menu from 1964!

Either the owner has no other property left to place the trailers besides the Woodbine Centre, or we're about to be hit by a massive snowstorm of liquidated goodies. Brace yourselves, shoppers. There's broken glass, expired soda, and trips near Disneyland to be won.

More fantastical daydreams from Woodbine's 200 trillion dollar renovation plans. I was at the Woodbine two days ago (you can stop applauding now), and I couldn't believe how gutted the food court was. New York Fries: gone. Taco Bell: Adios. The Sushi spot around the corner: ancient history...

If you wear a hard hat during demolition, you could probably walk out with as many Woodbine benches as you wanted. "Yeah, I'm just gonna bring these to the dump for scrap metal, brb"

I still question how Hudson's Bay stays in business at the Woodbine. Despite there being other Bay locations in Brampton and Mississauga, do people intentionally go out of their way to shop at the Woodbine's location? Does the Fantasy Fair have that much leverage over us? I say this defiantly...