In October 2019, the mall was closed due to changing demographics in the area and departure of the Walmart store.

[1][2][3] Lincoln Fields Shopping Centre was developed out of a project named "Cinema City", proposed in 1964.

The proposed CA$25 million complex would feature over 80 stores across three floors, a three-screen movie theatre and four luxury apartment buildings with a planned opening date of March 1967.

The site's original developers eventually sold the land to a new team who instead proposed a $3.8 million single-story shopping mall.

[6] 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.