Woodside Square


Woodside Square is a shopping mall in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the northwest corner of Finch Avenue East and McCowan Road at Sandhurst Circle. The mall is located in the heart of Agincourt, and is one of the well known malls along with the Dragon Centre Mall and Agincourt Mall to be noted as part of "Scarborough's Chinatown".

History

The mall opened in 1977. Notable anchors at one time included Dominion, J. Pascal's Hardware and Furniture , and a Chinese cuisine named "Ruby Chinese Restaurant." The Scarborough Public Library Board also opened the Woodside Square branch in the mall during the mall's early years of operation.
The Zellers was closed down and the space divided into multiple retailers and includes a Food Basics.
Near the mid-2000s, the McDonald's which had been located inside the mall was rebuilt as a freestanding tenant outside the mall to accommodate with the number of customers.
In 2007, the library began to run out of room for its collection, while coincidentally, the Dominion supermarket was closing down at the mall, as it was being acquired by Metro Inc. This supermarket location ended up not being converted into a Metro, and was renovated to include more retail space. The library was moved here, and a Shopper's Drug Mart was opened in the remaining space attached to the mall.
On 7 October 2009, Toronto Public Health closed the Ruby Chinese Cuisine after a man supposedly died after eating food from the cuisine. After investigations, an outbreak of salmonella was found in the restaurant.
During 2012–2013, the mall redeveloped over of land to add more stores and restaurants. They include many fast food restaurants, a Le Château Outlet, and another Chinese restaurant, named Congee Town.
In June 2019, the mall is currently having renovations which includes new flooring, LED lighting, new food vendors like COCO Fresh Tea & Juice and a new Japanese restaurant named Osaka Sushi, and free wifi.