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- Lincoln Fields Shopping Centre (later Lincoln Heights Galleria) was a community mall located in the Lincoln Heights neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was located between Carling Avenue and Richmond Road just west of Lincoln Fields station. In October 2019, the mall was closed due to changing demographics in the area and departure of the Walmart store. Lincoln Fields Shopping Centre was developed out of a project named "Cinema City", proposed in 1964. The proposed CA$25 million complex would feature over 80 stores across three floors, a three-screen movie theatre and four luxury apartment buildings with a planned opening date of March 1967. However, the following years saw no development. The project was repeatedly scaled down and expected contruction costs rose to $85 million. The site's original developers eventually sold the land to a new team who instead proposed a $3.8 million single-story shopping mall. The mall broke ground on June 9, 1971 and opened on May 24, 1972, becoming the city's third enclosed shopping centre. The mall's original tenants were Woolco, Loblaws, Ogilvy's, Tamblyn Drugs, Red Grille Restaurant, Hemsley's Jewellers, Magoo's Ice Cream Parlor (known for providing one of Kevin O'Leary's earliest jobs), Peter's Health Foods, Sam the Record Man, Parker Clean Laundromat, Aphrodite Bar, Swiss Pastries, Candy Corner, Shop-Rite, Nelms Opticians, TD Canada Trust, Jean Junction, Bretton's, Canterbury House Bookstore, Consumers Distributing, Koyman's Art Gallery, Small Fry Shoes, and a pizza shop among others. Later tenants would include Walmart which replaced Woolco in 1994, Loeb (later Metro) which replaced Peter's Health Foods, Pharma Plus (later Rexall) which replaced Tamblyn Drugs, Moores which replaced Shop-Rite, and A Buck or Two (later Dollar Tree). In 1985, the mall underwent renovations and was rebranded as Lincoln Heights Galleria, though residents continued referring to the mall as "Lincoln Fields". In 2016, the Walmart store closed and relocated to Bayshore Shopping Centre. This cause the mall to lose a significant portion of its clientel. In November 2018, the Wendy's restaurant, housed in a separate building fronting Carling Avenue, burned down in a fire that police said was deliberately set. In January 2019, it was announced the mall's leases would terminate on July 31 of that year. The mall's eastern half was demolished in summer 2020. This left the Rexall and Metro stores in operation until they moved into two newly built spaces the following year. The mall's western half was demolished in 2021. Long-term development plans by RioCan include high-density residential towers on the site. (en)
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