Suncoast Mall

Suncoast Mall was an enclosed shopping mall located in Goderich, Ontario. It served as a community mall with several local shops and a grocery store. 
== History ==
The mall opened in 1986 with two anchors; Metropolitan and A&P. Inside, there was a mix of local and national retailers. Because Goderich is a small town, the mall never lived up to its full potential, it never had full occupancy because most national retailers didn't want to go to small towns. 
In the early 1990s, Metropolitan closed its store at the mall, leaving the main anchor gone. 
Soon after, the Suncoast Mall was demolished and rebuilt except for the A&P store. Its new anchor was Zellers. This time around, they managed to get more national mall retailers. Some of the stores included were Mark's, Northern Reflections, and Reitman's.
In the late 1990s, A&P was rebranded to Food Basics, which remains in operation today. 
In 2011, Target bought the Zellers chain from HBC. By 2014, around half of the former Zellers stores were rebranded to Target Canada, but the Suncoast Mall location wasn't rebranded and instead was liquidated in 2012. This left the malls major anchor gone, this affected foot traffic in the mall, especially becuase there was now a Walmart Supercenter nearby. 
In the next few years after Zellers closed, many national retailers closed down and were left vacant. Around this time, Suncoast Mall wasn't getting the upkeep it needed, so the mall became rundown and the roof started leaking.
In 2016, Hart moved in to a section of the former Zellers space, but it didn't have a mall entrance, so the mall continued to decline. 
By 2020, some of the last tenants, like The Source, Northern Reflections, and Alia closed, leaving more vacancies. By this time, there was less than 5 retailers in the mall interior. 
In 2022 - 2023, the malls interior closed. Soon after, the space was repurposed into a strip mall / shopping plaza, marking the end of the Suncoast Mall. Some of the remaining retailers like Bootlegger moved from the interior to the strip plaza. 
Turning the Suncoast Mall into a strip plaza may have been a good thing in a way, because there's now more retailers than there has been in the last decade. 
Category:Canada
Category:Shopping Malls
Category:Dead Malls
Category:Zellers-anchored Malls
Category:A&P-anchored Malls
Category:Food Basics Locations