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| - The PTC is a decent mall; Ajax is devoid of a centralized mall and the next best thing (for shopping) would be the Scarborough Town Centre (which is great for shopping but absolutely NUTS with people all the time) or the Oshawa Centre (which is significantly smaller and filled with a lot of dirty/sketchy people). PTC is clean, not overly populated and you can shop easily and move around with lots of bags or a stroller or whatever without too much difficulty. For a leisurely shopper, this is a great place to mosey around and for the in and out shopper, its good for that too with MANY entrances and exits to get you to your store of choice as fast as possible.
While the PTC has come leaps and bounds in the past few years, throwing out some super crappy stores for very nice replacements, like Bath and Body Works, it's still a plain old mall. Considering that the Eaton's Centre is less than an hour away AND that the STC is within 15 minutes, if I had serious cash to spend, I wouldn't do it at this mall. For every day shopping or to browse, this IS a good mall for a few reasons. The mall really gets busy on Saturday and Sunday usually around or after lunch. If you want a few quiet hours of shopping, head there in the AM on either of these days and you'll find it nice and quiet. There's a good base selection of stores in this mall, not everything, but lots of stuff to keep you occupied and to give you choice to price things out for your options. There's also a movie theatre attached and an East Side Marios so you could easily make a day of shopping into an evening with friends or spouse.
A significant amount of time and money has been spent renovating the entire mall to make it look modern and bright; the food court used to be dingy and dark and wasn't very popular, but now on weekends, its packed to the brim. Some good food choices in this food court, like Jimmy the Greek and Roasty Jack (YUM try the turkey club, its amazing) and a lot more selection than they used to have.
There's a frequent rotation of the stores in here as I noted before so in the past few years and probably over the next few, more good stores will be arriving in this mall. The Zeller's wing is still crappyish but they're working on it: the womens' gym and urban behavior has revitalized that end of the mall (or started to). For you clothes shoppers, note that most stores in this mall are at the 'B' or 'C' level of inventory so they will likely NOT have all of the stock listed on their websites. And I think there's actually only ONE "outlet" store in this mall and that would be Campus Crew, who always has their merch on sale for like 40-50% off.
Overall, I'm a fan of this mall because I am/was from Pickering and spent significant time here working at various locations and this was my main place to shop. If you're on foot, you can make it to lots of other stores in the area and it's right across from the library and prime public transit stops.
A note to daz M.: there hasn't been a Buffalo in the PTC in the past 10 years - it used to be where the La Vie en Rose is but it's long gone now. And the mall rats are still there; they're just not as grungy as they were in the 90's.
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