Morningside Mall

Food Basics anchoring the hard discount grocery and daily-needs floor of Morningside Mall in Toronto, Ontario, at Morningside Avenue and Lawrence Avenue East in the Scarborough West Hill neighbourhood, gives the community regional mall its primary anchor for the West Hill household whose South Asian, Caribbean, West African, and diverse Scarborough population gives the Morningside catchment a multicultural daily-needs purchasing character that the national chain format serves alongside a concentration of independent community vendors. Zamzam Supermarket and Halal Meat, the halal grocery and specialty food inline retailer, gives the property a culturally specific food identity for the South Asian and Muslim community whose presence in West Hill makes halal provisioning a significant daily-needs purchasing occasion. Shoppers Drug Mart anchors the pharmacy and health category. Fire and Flower Cannabis Co. serves the Ontario provincial cannabis retail category.

Dollarama serves the value and household essentials category. Bulk Barn serves the specialty bulk food and ingredients category. LCBO serves the Ontario government beverage alcohol retail category. COBS Bread gives the property a BC-founded artisan bread identity. M&M Food Market serves the premium frozen and prepared foods category. Kal Tire serves the automotive tire and maintenance services category. Morningside Health Foods serves the natural health and supplements category. Specsavers serves the optical retail category. Bell serves the telecom retail category. Pet Valu serves the pet care and supplies category.

The property’s commercial role in Toronto’s East End is the Morningside Avenue Scarborough community mall: a Food Basics-Shoppers Drug Mart grocery and pharmacy anchor whose Zamzam Halal community food identity, Fire and Flower cannabis services, and Scarborough West Hill diverse household catchment give the West Hill, West Rouge, and Morningside Heights community a practical daily-needs and culturally specific provisioning destination in Toronto’s eastern suburban corridor.