Devonshire Shopping Mall

Devonshire is a great mall for all your needs. Has Cineplex, more clothing retailers than you can count and it’s always worthwhile to hit up chapters while you’re there. Anything you could possibly want there’s a store. Stores so close down more frequently than preferred but they’re almost always instantly replaced. The food court is pretty versatile too. I suggest hitting up the gelato and crêpe place tucked away next to the Bay.

Your typical suburban mall. The Devonshire Mall has expanded in the last 20 years. It now has all these little stores, but really nothing that anyone who has been anywhere else outside of Windsor can’t find elsewhere. The larger stores like Sears and The Bay men’s and women fashions are just so average and dull. The mall has become the equivalent of what the downtown shopping on Ouellette used to be in the old days, so at least there are shoppers at the mall. There’s no shopping in downtown Windsor so everyone goes here. But really, the mall is for teenagers and old people enjoying the air conditioning on hot Windsor summer days.

Fabulous mall, clean, friendly staff, great stores for all! The food court is full of skylights! I stopped into laura secord for some yummy easter chocolate and stood in a very lengthy line at target for some last minute clear out deals. I also stopped into sephora, I was surprised no sales associate offered to help me, I could have spent a lot of money in there! I would also like to note, the sales associate at laura secord kindly called me a cab and it arrived in less than 5 minutes! Unfortunately the cab driver was a douche bag.

A good little mall that is starting to show its age.
Not recommended for the faint of heart to visit this mall on a weekend, or close to a seasonal holiday. Traffic to get here is awful, parking ridiculous, and crowded, crowded, crowded. Like every mall, it is a magnet for teenagers.
Sears as the anchor, with a Target on the other end (although it is closing).
Food courts are always crowded and noisey.
Vendors in the mall seem to turnover quickly.
I’ve been to better and been to worse, but it really now is the only enclosed mall in Windsor… so guess where everyone goes to when it’s snowing or cold, or raining, etc.

This mall is like your average mall. There is nothing really special about it. There is a decent amount of shops, but I could not find anything. Nothing worthwhile here. Maybe they will open a great shop where Target is now presently.

OK American Midwesterners living in Michigan… if you want sturdy Canadian built winter clothing… well layered, down infused and stylish head to the Sears in the Devonshire Mall, and you will be bowled over with the rugged nordic wear you can find while people back in Michigan still look at thin summery items in their stores. The Canadians, with respect to the weather, have always understood reality better than those of us in the peninsula who pretend it’s summer well into November. All major credit cards work, though I caution you on your cell phone plan. Some companies do not work well at all in Canada… mine…Verizon. Need the international plan, I guess. Oh well. The mall itself seems logical, until you discover that large box stores that open to the parking lots and appear to be part of the Devonshire architecture, have no openings into the mall itself. Right. You have to exit to the parking lots, then enter at another point. Once inside, remember, if you get snagged in the food court, be careful. It, too, does not easily reconnect with the larger mall. It’s like a huge dead end that twists and deposits you somewhere outside. Confusing. Overall, though, the mall itself is what it is anywhere: someplace to go, walk around, look at products unavailable in the states, then head out into downtown Windsor for good ethnic eats. Be careful with Bridge/​Tunnel traffic back to the US. It can take an hour just to cross.

Simply known as «the mall». There are other malls in Windsor, certainly. With the exception of Tecumseh mall, most are near dead mall status. Devonshire has your regular compliment of mall stores, including a Sears, The Bay, and a Target. The Bay has seen better days, notably when it was a Simpsons. The men’s clothing section looks downright depressing and I fully expect one day to see a suit sales guy dangling from a polyester tie because death is the only release from an otherwise grim job selling suits to a city of people who don’t, or won’t, wear a suit.
There’s an H&M which, oddly, only carried women’s clothing upon first opening but they’ve added men’s and children’s a couple years ago. There are, inexplicably, two The Sources. Windsor people really need batteries… NOW! There’s a Chapters with a Starbucks and the Target has a Starbucks. There’s an Old Navy but there’s no way to access it via the mall’s interior. You have to brave the cold or heat/​humidity.
There’s a decent enough food court, a movie theater, and even a GoodLife gym. There was, for a time, Windsor’s civic art gallery at the mall. Initially a bit of a laughing stock in the art world, the AGW found the mall location to be serendipitous. The gift shop raked it in over Christmas and people actually stopped in and donated.
Seriously, the best thing Windsor could do is declared the mall Windsor’s official downtown and move city hall there. Problem about a withering downtown solved. Mississauga did it. Why not Windsor?
Across Howard there used to be a Future shop but that’s gone. There’s an LCBO and a Toys R Us across the way. Windsor people don’t want to cross the street, much, for stuff and most won’t drive across the street for fear of losing their parking spot.
Windsor people also want to park as closely as possible to the mall entrance. The best parking tends to be near the Chapters, the Target, and the movie theater. It’s a bit farther from the entrances but parking isn’t as tight.
Oh yeah, years ago, not predicting the rise of the SUV, they made all the spots extra narrow. So expect panel dings if you park closer.
The mall has seen expansion over the years. The area with the food court was the first major expansion and Windsor people lined up for weeks to see new stores and new colors. It was almost as if you found a door in your home you never noticed before and there were three new rooms behind the door. And each room had some shiny stuff in it. And maybe a neon sign. If humans are a result of cross breeding between a chimp and a pig, as the Daily Mail quite authoritatively tells us, Windsor people may well be the result of a cross breeding between chimps and magpies.

I admit it. As soon as I’m out of the tunnel, my GPS is pointed towards Devonshire Mall. I should know the way by now, though the 401 E or W option always turns me around, since apparently navigating without a pointy mountain or some kind of ocean throws me off at the best of times. But when I come to Canada on a day shopping trip, I will inevitably find myself here.
In part, I come to Devonshire out of convenience. Devonshire Mall is Windsor’s equivalent of the ubiquitous multi-​floor indoor plaza anchored by two department stores found in nearly every major Canadian city. If you grew up in Victoria or St Johns or Winnipeg, Devonshire will be no surprise. In between the Bay and Chapters, the Canadian response to Barnes and Noble-​Amazon-​defunct Borders (really it’s closest comparison), there are any number of shops except the one I covet most: Zara. A girl can wish, right? There is a Mexx, definitely a plus for those of us who can’t find one on the American side, and a host of smaller chain shops.
What really earns a four-​star rating is how compact all the services are. It has a branch of the Canadian post office, a Shopper’s Drug Mart for prescriptions or makeup, Timmy’s for dosing up on caffeine, and the banks all on hand. For dual citizens like me living on the other side of the river, being able to do all my transactions in one place is huge, especially when I’m strapped for time.
Several of the shops are only accessible from the exterior, notably Stitches. Parking near the entrance with Tim Horton’s and TD Bank, which leads to the main court, is always a headache and then some. I prefer to park farther out and walk. The addition of a new Target here where the old Zellers was promises to make an elaborate, difficult traffic section even worse in the future, especially because Howard Avenue crosses through a major shopping district.

Good Mall for the city of Windsor, only issue is getting out there… I know I know, drive ur car you say… That’s not the point, what Windsor needs is a Mall Downtown to accomodate the inner town, with cinemas and food courts… I will add though that Devonshire has good choices for shopping, it’s nice to walk around the Mall and just check things out… The sport stores are cool, and u can find some wild deals on expensive items… Need to mention that you can buy Butter Chicken Poutine in the food court, and check out Blue Notes for sick deals!

Over a million square feet in size? Check.
More than 175 stores? Check.
Honestly, there’s very little to dislike about the Devonshire Shopping Mall (DSM.) From Chapters (Canada’s version of Barnes & Noble) to The Bay (Canada’s equivalent of Macy’s) to more chains and independent stores unique to just Canada, the mall is a shopaholic’s (possibly me) heaven.
Additionally, there are two food courts. One boasts a Western diet type of foods — think high fat, high carbs, high chance of diabetes following the meal — that features favorites such as KFC and A&W. Amusingly enough, the dining area for that food court is right in the middle of mall traffic. making it rather difficult for that glutton to shove an entire cinnamon roll from Cinnabon down his or her throat. The other food court features healthier options such as Yogen Fruz (deservant of its own review later) and Simply Salads. The seating here was more secluded and far from the high traffic areas.
Parking is plentiful, and I can’t imagine the lots being half full even on a busy day. The multiple potholes leading to the mall, however, are disastrous and impossible to avoid. Drive with care.