Hamilton City Centre

Hamilton City Centre (Formerly Hamilton Eaton Centre) was an enclosed mall in downtown Hamilton, ON. The mall lasted for over 32 years before closing for a condo development which has yet to start. The malls final anchor was Hart, which moved else where when the mall closed. 
== History ==
Before the Hamilton Eaton Centre, there was a Eaton's and many other buildings. In 1989, the Eaton's and surrounding buildings were demolished to build the Hamilton Eaton Centre. 
The Hamilton Eaton Centre opened in 1990 with Eaton's as its main anchor, which had opened a year prior. The mall was designed after the Toronto Eaton Centre, with large skylights running across the main concourse of the mall. The mall was a originally jointly owned by Cadillac Fairview and Eaton's. Who were the same owners of the Toronto Eaton Centre at the time. The Hamilton Eaton Centre was built directly next to Jackson Square, a more popular mall which still operates today. The mall originally had many national retailers, such as The Gap, Eddie Bauer, People's Jewelers, HMV, and many others. 
In 1995, with the mall only at around 50% occupancy, Cadillac Fairview sold its shares of the Hamilton Eaton Centre. 
After just 9 years, Eaton's filed for bankruptcy and permanently closed their Hamilton Eaton Centre location. In 2000, the malls name was changed to Hamilton City Centre, the mall also had some renovations done to add the new logo to the mall. Eaton's was spilt up into various office and commercial spaces. Around this time, The third level of the mall was de-malled and turned into more office space. Until 2021, there was still one of the Eaton's signs left on the exterior of the mall.
Soon after Eaton's closed, many tenants permanently closed. With most national tenants gone, Hamilton City Centre became a dead mall. Some local tenants and discount/liquidation stores moved into the mall, making the property no longer an upscale mall. 
In 2005, Hart opened as the malls new anchor, this helped the mall bring in some new business as the store was successful, however, the mall remained mostly dead. 
Over the next decade, not much changed at the Hamilton City Centre except for more store closures. By the 2010s, the food court of the mall was nearly empty, as Jackson Square had a much better food court. 
In 2022, it was announced that the Hamilton City Centre would permanently close for a major condo development. Soon after, Hart closed and moved to a new location on Kenilworth Avenue. On December 26th, 2022, Hamilton City Centre closed for good and sat abandoned for a couple years. 
By 2024, it was announced that the development would be put on hold, as the owners of the mall wanted to wait for building costs to go down, among other factors. Today, Hamilton City Centre continues to sit abandoned, awaiting development.
== Gallery ==
File:Hamilton City Centre 2022.webp|Hamilton City Centre shortly before closing
File:Eatons 1989.jpg|Eaton's in 1989, before the mall opened 
File:Hart Hamilton City Centre.jpg|Former Hart location at Hamilton City Centre
File:Hamilton City Centre 1990s.jpeg|Hamilton City Centre in the 1990s
Category:Malls in Canada
Category:Shopping Malls
Category:Enclosed Malls
Category:Malls in Ontario
Category:Malls that opened in 1990
Category:Malls that closed in 2022
Category:Former Eaton's anchored-malls
Category:Former Hart locations
Category:Former Malls
Category:North America