The mall was built in 1972. At the time it was hailed as the city's "third enclosed shopping centre.” Notably, the mall originally consisted of a Woolco – with a 160-seat Red Grille Restaurant inside, as well as a 160-seat McDonald's, a Loblaws, an Ogilvy'sdepartment store, Tamblyn Drugs, a pizza shop, Hemsley's, Magoo's Ice Cream Parlor, Peter's Health Foods, Sam the Record Man, Parker Clean, a restaurant, circa the late-1980s, called Buffalo Charlie's, Swiss Pastries, Candy Corner, Shop-Rite, which later became Moores in the 1990s, Nelms Opticians, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Jean Junction, Bretton's, Canterbury House Bookstore, Consumers Distributing, Koyman's Art Gallery, a shoe store, and other stores. Notably, beginning in 1988, A Buck or Two store began operations in the corner of the mall adjacent to the former Shop-Rite and later became a Dollar Tree store in the early 2010s, before closing in early 2019. The mall's main salon, Tweezers Unisex Hair Design, opened in the mall in 1985 and remained until the end of November 2019. Another notable, later addition to the mall was P.A.M.'s Coffee & Tea franchise in 2003, which remained until the end of July 2019. When the mall opened, it was originally supposed to include two movie theatres, but this never came to fruition. The mall was formerly home to Woolco which became a Walmart in 1994. In 2016, the Walmart store closed and relocated to Bayshore Shopping Centre. The mall was rebranded as a Lincoln Heights Galleria in 1985. In November 2018, the Wendy's restaurant, housed in a separate building fronting Carling Avenue, burned down in a fire that police said was deliberately set. In January 2019, it was announced the mall would be demolished and that leases would terminate on July 31st of that year. A new Metro grocery store is slated to be built on the north-east side of the lot, and a new two-storey building to house the remaining retailers. Long-term development plans include high-density residential towers on the site. Moore's clothing store moved to a location near the Coliseum Theatre in Britannia. The mall officially closed in August 2019. As of February 2020, the mall is closed except for the Metro grocery store and the Rexall pharmacy. The mall will be demolished in sections in the near future.
