I still classify this as a tourist mall but it still has its practicalities. It's a tourist attraction so ya it will be open when other malls are closed sometimes...
It's a huge mall, huge. Restaurants, stores, a subway station at either end but it's most convenient to just traverse though say from Queen to Dundas while staying inside.
Renovations? Chains? This place has both in what seems to be a forever type thing. The Hudson's Bay on the Queen end and whatever US based department store on the Dundas side. Open spaces, multiple levels, see through elevators and a renovated Urban Eatery. How new is this place? The Richtree open market cafeteria style restaurant has taken over the older dungeon type bottom floor mini-open concept type of eatery what once was the old tucked away overcrowded and noisy southern food court.
My favorite entrance/exit has to be the side with Trinity Square side that leads towards City Hall and Trinity Church.
There is no more Eaton's (to which the entire mall was named) which was the department store at the Dundas end of the mall but the name lives on.
Update: Eaton's formally Sears north side department store will be Nordstroms.