Every Shopping Plaza and Centre in Vaughan (2026 List)

By Jatin Dua · Broker of Record, RE/MAX Quantum Realty — Vaughan Mills, Promenade, Colossus, Market Lane and the local plazas, by area, plus redevelopment and leasing notes

Looking for a unit in one of these centres? Tell me what space you need and I will shortlist options for you.

How is this list organised?

Vaughan is not one place. It is Woodbridge, Maple, Concord, the Vaughan side of Thornhill, Kleinburg village and the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre (VMC), all inside one city. Shopping follows the highways: the big enclosed mall sits at Highway 400 and Rutherford Road, the power centres cluster around Highway 7 at Weston Road and Highway 400, and the everyday grocery plazas sit on Major Mackenzie Drive, Rutherford Road and Bathurst Street.

I have grouped the list by area. For each place I give the address or the closest intersection I could confirm, the anchor tenant only where a current source names it, and who the centre tends to suit. Where I could not confirm an address or an anchor, I say so rather than guess.

• Enclosed mall: Vaughan Mills (Highway 400 and Rutherford Road) and Promenade (Bathurst Street and Centre Street).
• Power centres: RioCan Colossus Centre, Piazza Del Sole / SmartCentres Westridge, SmartCentres 400 & 7, SmartCentres 427 & 7, SmartCentres Vaughan Northwest and SmartCentres Thornhill.
• Neighbourhood plazas: Market Lane, Woodbridge Square, Woodbridge Mall, Rutherford Marketplace, the Maple village plazas and more.

What are the biggest shopping centres in Vaughan?

By floor area, Vaughan Mills is in a class of its own. After its 2013 expansion it was described by its then owner as about 1.1 million sq ft with roughly 250 stores, and current references put it at about 1.3 million sq ft. Behind it are the open-air power centres, most of them owned by SmartCentres, which has its head office at 3200 Highway 7 in the VMC.

Sizes for the SmartCentres properties come from a mall directory listing and are rounded. Treat them as a sense of scale, not leasing figures.

Woodbridge: which plazas and shopping centres are there?

Woodbridge has two very different shopping worlds. On Highway 7 around Weston Road you get the big boxes and chain restaurants. Down in the old village on Woodbridge Avenue you get Market Lane, which still works like a main street with parking.

Market Lane is the one I send people to when they want to feel old Woodbridge. The City of Vaughan has been running streetscaping work on Woodbridge Avenue and has told residents the street remains open for business while the work continues.

Vaughan Mills and the Highway 400 power centres

Vaughan Mills sits at the southeast corner of Highway 400 and Rutherford Road, just south of Canada’s Wonderland. It opened in November 2004. Bass Pro Shops lists its store at 1 Bass Pro Mills Drive, and the centre’s leasing listing calls it home to the only Legoland Discovery Centre in Canada. The Harry Rosen outlet also lists the same address.

Transit is easier than people expect. York Region Transit runs buses from the Vaughan Mills Terminal to Vaughan Metropolitan Centre subway station, about 2 km south on Jane Street.

Maple: which plazas serve the village and Major Mackenzie?

Maple’s old core is around Keele Street and Major Mackenzie Drive. Around it, newer plazas line Major Mackenzie, Rutherford Road and Bathurst Street. These are the places locals use every week.

You will also hear about Rutherford Village. SmartCentres lists a Rutherford Village centre in Vaughan, and a mall directory puts it at about 104,000 sq ft. I could not tie it to a confirmed street address from a current public source, so call ahead before you rely on it for a visit or a site search.

Woodbridge north and Vellore: Weston Road and Major Mackenzie

The Weston Road and Major Mackenzie Drive corner is the main retail node for Vellore Village and north Woodbridge. SmartCentres Vaughan Northwest is the big one here, with a Walmart Supercentre at 3600 Major Mackenzie Drive West. Around it are an LCBO (3631 Major Mackenzie Dr W), a GoodLife Fitness (3420), and a Shoppers Drug Mart and bank branches at 3737.

Further south, the Rutherford Shopping Centre at 5100 Rutherford Road is a smaller neighbourhood plaza. The Home Depot at 55 Cityview Boulevard serves the Highway 400 and Major Mackenzie side.

Thornhill (Vaughan side): Promenade and Centre Street

West of Yonge Street, Thornhill is part of Vaughan. Its retail heart is the Bathurst Street and Centre Street corner, where Promenade and SmartCentres Thornhill face each other.

Kleinburg village and the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre

Kleinburg has no mall. Its shopping is the village core on Islington Avenue, inside the Kleinburg-Nashville Heritage Conservation District. Shops and restaurants sit in the 10400 block of Islington, with galleries, boutiques, cafés and salons. The McMichael Canadian Art Collection brings visitors in year-round.

The VMC at Highway 7 and Jane Street is Vaughan’s new downtown, about 179 hectares around the Line 1 subway terminus at 3150 Highway 7. Retail here is mostly ground-floor space in new towers, not a classic plaza. SmartCentres owns the SmartVMC lands and a smaller centre at Edgeley and Highway 7 (about 146,000 sq ft per a directory). QuadReal manages Assembly Park, which it describes as a mixed community with retail in the VMC’s creative district. If you are looking at living here, my guide to every VMC condo building covers the towers that hold this retail.

Which Vaughan plazas are being redeveloped?

Several of Vaughan’s biggest retail sites are planned for housing. None of this means the stores close tomorrow. These are long, phased projects. Here is what I could confirm:

• Promenade, Thornhill. Owned since 2017 by a partnership of the Serruya family and Liberty Development. The first two towers, at 30 and 35 storeys, rise beside the mall at 1 Promenade Circle with about 748 units. The City of Vaughan runs a separate Promenade Centre Secondary Plan for the wider area; in January 2023 Retail Insider reported it was still a study in progress, and I could not confirm a final approval date. The mall says that from 20 July 2026 part of the parking lot near Entrance 1 is closed for construction of a new office and hotel building by Liberty Development.
• RioCan Colossus Centre, Woodbridge. In 2022 RioCan filed an Official Plan Amendment for a long-term master plan on the 61.7-acre site: up to 25 buildings of 8 to 55 storeys and about 13,000 homes, with new parks and retail near the Highway 400 entrance. It was a proposal at the time, with zoning and site plans still to come.
• SmartCentres Thornhill, 700 Centre Street. In 2020 SmartCentres announced two condo towers of 27 and 29 storeys on a 1.3-acre corner of the site, with ground-floor retail.
• The VMC. The SmartVMC lands around the subway are being built out tower by tower, replacing surface big-box parking with mixed-use blocks.

How do you lease space in a Vaughan plaza?

Most of my Vaughan commercial calls are from business owners who want a unit in one of these plazas. The process is the same whether it is a 1,200 sq ft unit at Market Lane or a pad at a power centre:

1. Pick the trade area first. A bakery in Woodbridge village and a bakery on Major Mackenzie draw very different customers.
2. Check the use is allowed. The landlord’s use clause and the City’s zoning both have to permit your business. A permitted use in the zoning can still be blocked by another tenant’s exclusive in the lease. My notes on the commercial lease use clause and the change-of-use permit explain both.
3. Get the full cost. Ask for base rent plus the additional rent (TMI: taxes, maintenance and insurance) in writing. Big centres usually have higher additional rent than small strip plazas.
4. Sign an offer to lease with a review condition. Give yourself time to have the full lease checked. Here is how a lease review condition works.
5. Negotiate the clauses that matter. Term, renewal options, assignment, signage, exclusives and the demolition clause. My list of commercial lease clauses walks through each one.

Large centres such as Vaughan Mills and the SmartCentres and RioCan sites lease through in-house or appointed leasing teams. Smaller plazas, such as Market Lane, often list a property management contact on their own website. I help tenants find and negotiate space across Vaughan and the GTA, and I can also help when you want to buy a plaza unit rather than rent one.

Which plaza suits which kind of business?

From what I see when clients search for space, the pattern is clear:

• Destination retail and food chains look at Colossus, Piazza Del Sole and the Vaughan Mills area, where traffic comes from the highways.
• Grocery-anchored services (pharmacy, dental, physio, tutoring, nails) do well in Rutherford Marketplace, Vaughan Northwest and the Maple and Thornhill grocery plazas, where people come back every week.
• Independent, character businesses fit Market Lane in Woodbridge and Kleinburg’s Islington Avenue core, though heritage rules in Kleinburg affect signs and changes to buildings.
• Businesses betting on new residents look at the VMC, where new towers bring ground-floor retail to thousands of new homes.

Is any list of Vaughan plazas complete?

No. Vaughan has dozens of small strip plazas at almost every major intersection, and tenants change every month. This list covers the centres people ask me about most, with addresses I could confirm from current sources. Before you visit, or before you make a leasing decision, check the centre’s own site or call the store. If you want me to look for a specific kind of space, the form below is the quickest way to tell me what you need.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• Wikipedia — Vaughan Mills — Address, 2004 opening, size, location at Hwy 400 and Rutherford, YRT terminal and subway link
• La Caisse (Ivanhoé Cambridge) — Vaughan Mills expansion release, 2013 — Expansion to about 1.1M sq ft, 250 stores, Legoland Discovery Centre
• JLL — Vaughan Mills, 1 Bass Pro Mills Drive leasing listing — Retail for lease; only Legoland Discovery Centre in Canada
• Wikipedia — Promenade (shopping centre) — 1986 opening, 2017 sale, T&T and Imagine Cinemas, Olive Branch, phase one towers
• Promenade — official site — 150+ stores, July 2026 parking closure for Liberty office/hotel construction
• Retail Insider — Promenade Shopping Centre to be redeveloped (Jan 2023) — Tower heights, 750+ units, secondary plan still a study in 2023
• RENX — RioCan plans to redevelop Vaughan’s Colossus Centre (2022) — 61.7 acres, 570,000 sq ft retail, tenants, 25-building plan, OPA filed
• SmartCentres — Two towers coming to SmartCentres Thornhill (2020) — 700 Centre Street, 27 and 29 storey towers
• Malls.com — Shopping malls in Vaughan — SmartCentres centre names, GLA figures and listed anchors
• Market Lane — official site — 140 Woodbridge Ave address, 40+ tenants, management contact
• OpenStreetMap — Vaughan retail map data — locations and tenants marked as mapped (verify before visiting)

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