Top 15 North American Malls by Sales Per Square Ft, 2012 (shops, clothing, mall)

[18Montclair]

Here is our list of 'top 15' North American malls and their sales per square foot:


1. Pacific Centre, Vancouver BC Canada: $1580/sq ft
2. Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas NV USA: $1470/sq ft
3. Toronto Eaton Centre, Toronto ON Canada: $1320/sq ft
4. Yorkdale Shopping Centre, Toronto ON Canada: $1300/sq ft
5. Ala Moana Shopping Centre, Honolulu HI USA: $1250/sq ft
6. Oakridge Shopping Centre, Vancouver BC Canada: $1200/sq ft
7. Chinook Centre, Calgary AB Canada: $1055/sq ft
8. Mall at Short Hills, Short Hills NJ USA: $1050/sq ft
9. Mall at Millenia, Orlando FL USA: $1040/sq ft
10. Rideau Centre, Ottawa ON Canada: $1020/sq ft
11: Sherway Gardens, Toronto ON Canada: $950
12: Fairview Mall, Toronto ON Canada: $880/sq ft
13: Fashion Valley Shopping Centre, San Diego CA USA: $875/sq ft
14: Peter Pond Mall, Ft. McMurray AB Canada: $850/sq ft (we're not joking about this one)
15: Garden State Plaza, Paramus NJ USA: $750/sq ft

RETAIL INSIDER: Many of North America's Most Productive Malls are in Canada

Canadian malls seem to be doing well at this time.

[jlawrence01]

No surprise here.

Who shops at malls these days? Most of US sales are at strip malls and big box stores.

In Canada, the big box stores are attached to malls as are many groceries/

[NJBest]

Most people I know shops at malls for clothing... Which if probably a large portion of those sales figures. I don't shop at short hills however. Maybe I should check it out.

The top 15 malls in North America list was quite surprising for me to see a lot more popular malls in Canada than USA, especially in the city of Toronto.

Not all malls are bad, so it really depends on the quality of the exact mall and the arrangement of stores it offers to people. Sometimes it is practical to someone for having a large amount of varied stores in the same place at a mall, rather than being scattered around in the area they live in, occasionally being more difficult to find and go shopping.

That is also important to have independent stores and shopping that is not associated with being in a mall, so there should be a balance, and even amount of both forms of shopping experiences to customers.

Usually I prefer independent stores not in a mall, but sometimes I don’t mind going to a mall and sometimes its necessary to go there too.

[CarolinaDreams]

I can see why the Orlando mall is on there. I at one time considered moving to Orlando and that mall was one of the main reasons i wanted to move, excellent shopping!

[us66]

Canadian malls have a slightly different tenant mix. They still frequently have supermarkets.

[TyrannosaurusZack]

Is this only traditional malls that are enclosed with a roof? Or do they count the "lifestyle centers" built by the mall developers as "malls" too, I can't imagine that The Grove in LA isn't a top grossing shopping center?

[swagger]

I live a few miles away from the top mall in the U.S. Weird. I never would have guessed it was Caesars.