The 101 Mall

The Real African Foods Market, the West African grocery and community food retailer; and Alika Sari Sari Store, the Filipino convenience and specialty food shop, give The 101 Mall in Timmins, Ontario, a community retail identity whose immigrant household tenant mix reflects the demographic character of the Timmins gold mining and forestry economy’s workforce, where Filipino and West African immigrant communities recruited to the northern Ontario resource extraction sector give the Third Avenue commercial address a culturally specific daily provisioning character that the national chain retail formats do not replicate at equivalent depth for these households. Rexall serves the pharmacy and daily personal care category as a key inline tenant for the Timmins household’s daily health purchasing occasion. True North Cannabis Co and True North Vape Shop serve the Ontario provincial cannabis and vaping retail categories. Jump City Comics gives the property an independent comics and pop culture retail identity for the Timmins collector community.

Busch Jewellers and Cousineau Fine Jewellery give the property local and regional independent fine jewelry identities. Hakim Optical serves the optical retail category. Moons Exotic Pets and Supplies gives the property a specialty pet retail identity. A Second Time Around gives the property a secondhand goods identity. Altered Reality gives the property an entertainment and gaming identity. Timmins Bazaar gives the property a community market and general retail identity. Northern Cash Advance serves the financial services category for the northern Ontario working household’s daily financial needs occasion. A Tim Hortons in an adjacent building on the same lot serves the daily café occasion for the surrounding 101 Mall commercial area.

The property’s commercial role in the Porcupine region is the Timmins Third Avenue community mall: a Rexall-anchored pharmacy and daily-needs format whose Real African Foods Market West African community identity, Alika Sari Sari Filipino provisioning floor, and True North Cannabis northern Ontario retail give the Timmins mining and forestry workforce household a co-tenancy of practical daily services and culturally specific community retail whose trade area reflects the economic geography of one of northern Ontario’s most historically significant gold mining cities.