Richmond Centre (mall)

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Richmond Centre


Location	Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Management	Cadillac Fairview and Ivanhoe Cambridge
Owner	Cadillac Fairview and Ivanhoe Cambridge
No. of stores and services	250
No. of anchor tenants	4
No. of floors	2 (2nd floor limited to The Bay, Sears, and rooftop parking only)
Website	http://www.richmondcentre.ca

Richmond Centre is a shopping mall in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. Officially, it is located on No. 3 Road but it stretches as far west as Minoru Boulevard, and as far north as Westminster Highway. The Richmond Royal Canadian Mounted Police station and Richmond City Hall are immediately south of the mall.

By the number of stores, it is the largest mall in Richmond with 250 stores and services; it is the second largest in terms of area. Notable retailers include The Bay, Sears, Famous Players 6-screen movie theatre, HMV, The Gap, Shoppers Drug Mart, Tim Hortons, Starbucks, Sport Chek, Off The Wall and Coast Mountain Sports. Part of the mall was once known as Richmond Square.

Famous Players has had a presence at Richmond Centre dating back to the mall's origins as Richmond Square, first opening the Richmond Square Twin Theatre (consisting of the 700-seat "Richmond" and the 478-seat "Islander") in 1968. The "Richmond" auditorium was divided down the middle in 1980 to make Richmond Square a triple theatre; the theatre was closed in 1990 and demolished to make way for parking for the expanded and renamed mall and was replaced by the present cinema complex.

Almost all public transit buses in Richmond, serviced by TransLink, have connections to the mall, with additional routes to Surrey, Burnaby, downtown Vancouver, New Westminster, Delta and the University of British Columbia. In addition to being the main public transit transfer point in Richmond, it is also the unofficial terminus of the 98 B-Line, a bus rapid transit line from Richmond Centre to Vancouver International Airport and downtown Vancouver.