In June 2024, Gabriela Mendes was walking through the mall on a Friday when she stopped mid-sentence. "This is not the Sheridan Mall I'm used to," she said, watching workers finish the signage for a new Italian restaurant where a food court used to be. She grew up in the neighborhood. She remembers Papa Luigi's Pizza and Smitty's Pancakes. What she was looking at instead was Il Fornello, a wood-fired pizza chain with thirty years in Toronto, setting up shop in a building most Sheridan residents had quietly written off years ago.
That reaction is two years old now, and it still describes what's true today. The mall at 2225 Erin Mills Parkway has worn three names since 1969: Sheridan Mall, Eaton Sheridan Place, Sheridan Centre. It's now called Sherwood Village, and after two years of the new tenant mix settling in, it's still worth walking through even if you don't need anything from Shoppers Drug Mart.
What's Actually In There Now
The tenant list reads like nothing that's occupied this building before, and none of it is brand new anymore. Il Fornello, which opened in June 2024, is still running with its attached Cafe Alba serving coffee, pastries and gelato. Golf On, an indoor golf simulator lounge, has been operating for two years now, offering Trackman-equipped bays where you can play a round without leaving Erin Mills Parkway. Aplus Sports, a training facility, opened a few days before Il Fornello did back in 2024. Lambton Galleries, selling kitchen and bath fixtures, moved in around the same stretch. And Rally at Sherwood Village has built out somewhere between 15 and 17 indoor pickleball courts, open daily from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., with group clinics and private lessons for anyone who wants to get better at the sport that's taken over the GTA.
Here's the shift in plain terms, two years in:
| Then (pre-2024) | Now (Sherwood Village) |
|---|---|
| Food court, mostly closed units | Il Fornello + Cafe Alba |
| Empty retail bays | Golf On Lounge (Trackman simulators) |
| Vacant storefront | Aplus Sports training facility |
| Vacant storefront | Lambton Galleries (kitchen, bath) |
| Underused back corridor | Rally pickleball, 15-plus courts |
| Metro, Shoppers Drug Mart, Bank of Nova Scotia | Still there, unchanged |
The old anchors that made it through decades of turnover, Metro, Shoppers, the Bank of Nova Scotia, are still exactly where they were. Everything built around them is new.
Why This Might Not Last Forever
Here's the part that changes how you should think about the timing. The building isn't just getting new tenants. It's getting demolished, in pieces, on a schedule that's already begun.
In April 2026, INsauga reported that the KFC and Taco Bell at the corner of Erin Mills Parkway and Lincoln Green Way are being torn down to make room for a 15-storey residential building, the first of two planned for the site. Combined, those two buildings are expected to bring 631 residential units to a property that has spent the last decade mostly empty. Earlier that same year, in February 2026, UrbanToronto reported a separate proposal for a 24-storey infill rental tower at 1970 to 1980 Fowler Drive, designed by Core Architects for Starlight Capital, adding another 285 units nearby.
Neither of these is the full redevelopment plan. That plan, when it eventually moves forward, calls for the mall itself to be rebuilt in phases around a mix of mid-rise and high-rise buildings, some reaching close to 30 storeys, with the mall's retail footprint shrinking as residential space expands around it. None of that has a confirmed start date. What's already underway, the KFC and Taco Bell teardown and the Fowler Drive tower proposal, are the first concrete steps.
So the Sherwood Village you can walk into right now, pizza oven running, pickleball paddles cracking, golf simulators lit up in the old food court, exists in a window between two versions of this building. The mall spent a decade half-empty waiting to be redeveloped. For the past two years it's been full of things people actually want to do, while the redevelopment that will eventually change its footprint is only now starting to break ground at its edges. Enjoy the current mix while it lasts, because a construction schedule that's already begun at two corners of the property doesn't stay contained to two corners forever.
What Never Actually Left
While the tenant list turned over completely, one thing at this mall has stayed put for three decades: the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra's Giant Used Book Sale. Last year's edition marked the 30th anniversary, four days of fiction, vinyl, DVDs and sheet music, all sold for a dollar, all cash only, with proceeds funding the orchestra's season and its youth program. It's held every September in the same building that's now hosting golf simulators and wood-fired pizza, which is its own small proof that Sherwood Village's constant hasn't been its stores. It's been the things the community built around it.
The Sheridan Homelands Ratepayers Association runs the rest of that calendar. Family Fun Day, Shakespeare in the Park, a Pumpkin Parade in the fall, and an annual Christmas Lights contest are all organized by SHORA, the same association that's kept Sheridan Homelands functioning as a distinct, self-governing pocket since the neighborhood was built out in the 60s and 70s.
And if you want something to do before summer ends, the City of Mississauga is running its Sheridan Community Ride on August 26, 2026. It starts at Sheridan Park and winds through the trails of Sherwood Forest, with routes ranging from 8 to 16 kilometres for riders of any level. It's free, it's in-person, and it's one of a series the city is running from May through October across different neighborhoods, so if the date doesn't work, the route stays posted for the rest of the year.
The Next Few Weeks, If You Live Here
If you've been avoiding the mall out of habit, this is the season to go back. Register for the August 26 ride if trails are more your speed than pickleball. Book a bay at Golf On if you haven't touched a club since last winter, or grab a court at Rally, which has grown into 15-plus dedicated courts since it opened in 2024. Watch for the Symphony's book sale announcement in early September, since the exact dates shift slightly year to year but the format, four days, dollar pricing, cash only, hasn't changed since it started three decades ago.
None of this requires you to think about real estate. But if you've lived in Sheridan long enough to remember the mall before any of this, you already know that neighborhoods here don't announce their changes loudly. They just quietly become something else, and one day you're standing in a golf simulator lounge where the food court used to be, wondering when exactly that happened.
If you're curious what any of this means for your own property, whether it's the redevelopment activity nearby or just wanting a read on where Sheridan sits in the broader Mississauga market, Shahid Khawaja RE tracks these shifts closely. Get My Valuation whenever you're ready to talk specifics.
