Zehrs, the Loblaws-owned Ontario supermarket, serves the grocery category at Georgian Mall in Barrie, alongside HomeSense for home goods and Shoppers Drug Mart for pharmacy and personal care, giving the 745,000 square foot property on Bayfield Street a community retail function that the Barrie household accesses for both the standard regional mall visit and the weekly household services trip. Georgian Mall serves the Barrie, Springwater, Innisfil, and Oro-Medonte household as the primary enclosed comparison-shopping format for Simcoe County, whose position on the Highway 400 corridor between Toronto and cottage country gives the property a dual-audience structure: the Barrie residential consumer year-round and the Toronto-area cottage visitor who accesses the Barrie retail corridor on the northbound Highway 400 trip between May and October.
Sport Chek and Atmosphere Canada, the Canadian Tire-owned outdoor apparel brand, give the property a sporting goods and outdoor lifestyle floor appropriate for Barrie’s year-round outdoor recreation culture: skiing at the Blue Mountain and Snow Valley ski areas to the northwest and west, sailing and cottage activities on Georgian Bay to the north, and the Barrie recreational park network. Sephora serves the prestige beauty category. H&M, American Eagle, Dynamite, Garage, Bluenotes, Aerie, La Vie en Rose, Melanie Lyne, Northern Reflections, RW&CO., and SoftMoc cover the accessible and Canadian women’s fashion floor. Jump+ Apple Premium Retailer serves the Apple technology category for the Barrie and North Simcoe consumer.
Pandora, Peoples Jewellers, Michael Hill, and Charm Diamond Centres serve the jewelry and gifting floor. Bell, Rogers, TELUS, and Virgin Plus give the property a full Ontario telecom carrier presence. Laura Secord serves the chocolate and confectionery category. Kernels Popcorn serves the specialty snack occasion. The property’s commercial profile is the Barrie Highway 400 commercial junction enclosed regional mall: a Zehrs-HomeSense-Shoppers Drug Mart daily-needs anchor combination whose Sport Chek outdoor identity and Canadian fashion floor serve the Simcoe County household and the Toronto-area cottage country traveler at Ontario’s primary gateway to Georgian Bay and Northern Ontario recreational territory.
