New Horizon Mall

New Horizon Mall is a modern shopping mall in the Calgary Metropolitan Region located inside of Balzac, a locality of Rocky View County, Alberta. The mall features a retail floor space of approximately 30,000 m2 (320,000 square feet),[1] and features a flea market gimmick where stores inside the mall are smaller; causing the mid-sized mall to have the second most amount of stores inside a mall in Canada at over 500 store locations.[2] The mall opened its doors on May 1, 2018, As of February 2021, over 100[3] had opened for business. The grand opening was scheduled for October 27, 2018, however on September 21, 2018, the opening was pushed to 2019. It was modeled after the Pacific Mall in Markham, Ontario.[4]

New Horizon Mall
LocationRocky View County, Alberta, Canada
Coordinates51.1960°N 113.9965°W / 51.1960; -113.9965
Address260300 Writing Creek Crescent
Opening dateMay 1, 2018
ManagementCondominium Corporation 1810813
OwnerThe Torgan Group
No. of stores and services500 (incl. vacant)
No. of anchor tenants2
Total retail floor area30,000 m2 (320,000 sq ft)
No. of floors2
Websitenewhorizonmall.com

History

New Horizon Mall opened on May 1, 2018.

A unique feature of the mall is that it features small independent shops rather than large chains like other shopping malls, with each unit being sold to investors as condominiums. According to the Mall's online directory, the majority of retail spaces are less than 300 square feet in size, and many of those are less than 150 square feet. Almost all of the rest are under 500 square feet. There is also a food court, and event stage, and heated underground parkade.

New Horizon Mall hosts several events throughout the year including family events, trade shows, fashion shows & pop-up stores.

Media Coverage

The mall has frequently been called by both the media and residents of nearby Calgary as a "dead mall", due to the mall having an extremely high vacancy rate due to mall's flea market styled gimmick.

On YouTube, a semi-viral video uploaded by the channel "Best Edmonton Mall" with upwards of 750,000 views titled "New Horizon Mall: $200 Million Dead Mall - Calgary's Nightmare Shopping Center - Best Edmonton Mall" was uploaded shortly after the mall's opening on November 5, 2018.[2] This video would offer a very scathing critique of the mall, shining light on how the mall flopped upon its opening. This video, along with a few others, would cause the mall to become of the most well-known dead mall along the likes of Forest Fair Village.

Anchors
  • Sky Castle Indoor Playground - Now Open
  • The Best Shop - Now Open

References
  1. "THERE'S NEVER BEEN A BETTER TIME TO LEASE". New Horizon Mall. Retrieved April 8, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. "New Horizon Mall: $200 Million Dead Mall - Calgary's Nightmare Shopping Center - Best Edmonton Mall". YouTube. November 5, 2018. Retrieved April 8, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. "Sky Castle A massive Entertainment Centre to open in New Horizon Mall".
  4. Healing, Dan (September 21, 2018). "Calgary's eerily empty New Horizon Mall postpones grand opening". Retrieved 29 September 2018.
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