Metro anchoring Whitby Mall on Thickson Road South in Whitby, Ontario, the Durham Region lakeside city east of Toronto whose rapid population growth through the 2010s made it one of the fastest-growing municipalities in the greater Toronto area, gives the community regional mall a full-service grocery and daily-needs platform for the Whitby and Durham Region household. Talize Thrift Store gives the property a large-format thrift and secondhand goods identity for the Whitby value-shopping household whose sustainable purchasing culture the national chain format does not serve at equivalent inventory depth. Running Room gives the property a specialty running footwear and training apparel identity. Daily Planet Book Store, the locally-owned independent comics, used books, and retro gaming retailer, gives the property a community culture identity for the Durham Region collector and reading household whose browsing and discovery occasion the national chain format does not replicate at equivalent independent retail depth.
LCBO serves the Ontario government beverage alcohol retail category. Once Upon A Child gives the property a secondhand children’s clothing identity. S&H Health Foods and Healthy Planet serve the natural food and health supplement categories. Coffee Time serves the daily café and quick-service food occasion. Butter Chicken Roti gives the property a South Asian community food identity for the growing South Asian population in the Whitby and Durham Region residential corridor. PLAYLAB gives the property a children’s entertainment identity. Bell, Fido, Rogers, and TELUS serve the Canadian telecom retail categories. Dollarama serves the value and household essentials category.
The property’s commercial role in Durham Region is the Whitby Thickson Road community mall: a Metro-anchored grocery and daily-needs format whose Daily Planet Book Store independent culture identity, Talize Thrift secondhand goods, Running Room active lifestyle, and Butter Chicken Roti South Asian community food give the Whitby and Durham Region East GTA catchment a practical daily-needs and community culture destination in the Toronto eastern suburban growth corridor.
