Mississauga shopping mall will get a whole new look and name

One of Mississauga’s oldest shopping malls, alternately known over the last several decades as Sheridan Mall and Sheridan Centre, is getting an entirely new look that will likely include high-rise condominiums on the site as well.

The large Erin Mills Pkwy. site, located just north of the QEW, is being redeveloped in the coming years and will be known as Sherwood Village.

A new stone facade facing the busy west Mississauga roadway already bears that name.

According to the developer, Dunpar Homes, the massive project will retain and upgrade the shopping mall, with the Metro grocery store as an anchor tenant, while adding residential units to the mix as well.

The redevelopment will reportedly include a mix of high-, mid- and low-rise residential units on the perimeter, with the renovated shopping mall remaining the focus of the site. Commercial office space could also be included.

Presentations to and approval from the City of Mississauga are still to come before the project can begin to take its final shape.

A rendering of what the area could look like in the coming years. (Illustration: Dunpar Homes)

The shopping mall has faced its share of business and traffic flow problems over the years. At one point, it featured an Eaton’s and a movie theatre, but in more recent years it has struggled with tenant vacancies.

Opening as Sheridan Mall in 1969, the site was a major destination point back then for suburban shoppers in the brand new communities west of Toronto.

Ironically, the name “Sheridan” was the early favourite for the name of the city that instead became Mississauga in 1974.

During those early years, Sheridan Mall hosted car shows, antique fairs, Christmas carnivals and was the home of the Miss Mississauga Pageant.

However, in the 1980s, the movie theatre was removed and some observers believe the mall was never the same after that.

–with files from Steve Pecar