[3] It completed all development, leasing and financing for the project; the architecture mirrored the gothic elements of the University campus buildings.

[4][5] Construction began in the spring of 2002 and the first stores opened in the fall of the same year Future Shop (now Best Buy) relocated from its original Circle Centre Mall location (across the street From The Centre Mall) where Jysk stands today.

[11] The shopping area had already lost one of its originating tenants, with the Shoppers Drug Mart location going out of business in 2012, after 10 years of operation.

By 2013, a booming economy and low retail vacancy rate prompted plans for Preston Crossing to expand further.

The restrictions had been implemented over concerns that the big box complex would take business away from other commercial districts like 8th Street, Broadway Avenue and downtown.