The mall was designed by Robin Gibson and opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1982. It has been refurbished and extended a number of times. In 2013 it was the site of a siege that saw the mall go into a lockdown. It features several shopping malls, a steel structure for shade and an entertainment stage.
"Great Queen Street, built about 1629 from the designs of either Inigo Jones or his pupil, Webb, was so called from Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I. The street was then, and for some time afterwards occupied by people of rank. Here was Conway House, the residence of the noble family of that name.
The modern shopping mall came into being soon after World War II. Malls came not only to dominate the retail scene, but helped undermine traditional city centers, promote urban sprawl, reshape commercial patterns, and foster the decline and eventual demise of many department stores in the process.
The current five-storey building was originally constructed as the headquarters of the Methodist Church of Canada in 1913 by Burke, Horwood and White. The Methodists joined with two other denominations to form the United Church of Canada in 1925, for which the building served as the headquarters until 1959.
This large masonry building was constructed 1881–1885 as the new Head Office for the successful and influential Queensland National Bank. The burgeoning gold mining industry of the early 1870s created a mood of optimism and a desire for increased development capital, free from inter-colonial and overseas control.
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Why is it called Queen Street?
Named after Queen Victoria, Queen Street was an early development of the new town of Auckland (founded in 1840), although initially the main street was intended to be Shortland Street, running parallel to the shore of Commercial Bay.
Queen Street Station (1982). The station was built by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, and opened on 21 February 1842 as Dundas Street Station before being renamed as Queen Street, although the train shed (curved glass roof) wasn't completed until 1878. In 1865 the E&GR was absorbed into the North British Railway.
Spencer Plaza was built in 1863–1864, established by Charles Durant and J. W. Spencer in Anna Salai, then known as Mount Road, in the Madras Presidency. The property originally belonged to Spencer & Co Ltd. Spencer & Co opened the first department store in the Indian subcontinent in 1895.
The word 'mall' comes from a 16th-century Italian alley game that resembled croquet. It was called pallamaglio, or pall-mall in English; the alley on which the game was played came to be known as a 'mall'.
The mall was designed by Robin Gibson (architect). After being closed to traffic in 1981, the initial pedestrian mall was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 9 August 1982, in order to be ready for the 1982 Commonwealth Games.
It was subsequently renamed Queen's Road after 1837 in honour of Queen Victoria, who had been born at nearby Kensington Palace: a name, however, which somewhat lacked distinctiveness, for this reason the present name of Queensway was eventually substituted a century later.
Queen Street's Authorised Vehicles Only (AVO) zone. On Sunday 3 July 2022, the area between the Civic Theatre on Wellesley Street and the Town Hall at the intersection of Wakefield Street became an Authorised Vehicles Only area, or AVO.
Charlotte is straight forward. Literally named for a Queen during the colonial years and the county named after her birthplace. Cinci called itself the Queen City because it was the biggest and best city of the “west”.
The commercial district of Queen Street East lies at the heart of The Beaches community. It is characterized by a large number of independent specialty stores. The stores along Queen are known to change tenants quite often causing the streetscape to change from year to year, sometimes drastically.
That's pretty much it, it's the road you take to get to London so they called them the London road, that got shortened over time. Lots of roads in towns named after the town they take you towards.
The project is 49 storeys tall (156.0m, 511.8ft) and has a total of 684 suites. 300 Front Street West Condos is the #1644 tallest condominium in Toronto and the #19 tallest condominium in Cityplace.
Why is the road to Buckingham Palace called The Mall?
The name. The name is derived from Pelle Melle, a game introduced by King Charles which was traditionally played in St. James's Park. Traffic was permitted on The Mall in 1887.
