Cataraqui Town Centre is the principal Kingston super-regional shopping centre at 945 Gardiners Road in the west Kingston district, opened in 1987 with the 62,000-sqm regional format spanning approximately 140 retail and service units. The property is owned and managed by Ivanhoé Cambridge as the flagship Ivanhoé Cambridge Kingston retail asset, serving the Kingston CMA of approximately 175,000 metropolitan residents as the dominant enclosed retail destination for the principal city of southeastern Ontario and the gateway between Toronto and Montreal on the Highway 401 corridor.
The format combines the Hudson’s Bay Company, Sport Chek, and Winners anchor stores with the comprehensive Canadian and international retail register featuring H&M, Lululemon, Sephora, Dynamite, Ardene, and the broader Canadian fashion programming. The Cineplex Cinemas multiplex anchor, the comprehensive food court and dining circuit serving the Kingston residential, university, and military demographic, and the broader retail-and-services programming complete the contemporary southeastern Ontario regional offer.
The catchment combines the dense Kingston residential demographic of approximately 175,000 metropolitan residents, Kingston hosts Queen’s University (24,000+ students), Royal Military College, Kingston General Hospital, and multiple federal penitentiary employment facilities, with the broader southeastern Ontario regional draw from Napanee, Belleville, and the Prince Edward County and Frontenac County rural catchment. Direct accessibility includes the direct Highway 401 and Gardiners Road interchange positioning Cataraqui as the principal Highway 401 corridor Kingston retail gateway, the Kingston Transit bus network, and the dedicated parking infrastructure for approximately 4,500 vehicles.
Ivanhoé Cambridge coordinates the property management of Cataraqui Town Centre as the flagship Ivanhoé Cambridge southeastern Ontario retail asset. The asset’s commercial role within the Canadian retail map is the dominant Kingston super-regional destination and the principal retail gateway for southeastern Ontario’s principal city midway between Toronto and Montreal, serving the Queen’s University, military, and healthcare professional catchment alongside the regional rural draw within the broader eastern Ontario retail register.
