shopping centre
A shopping center (American English) or shopping centre (Commonwealth English), also called a shopping complex, shopping arcade, shopping plaza or galleria, is a group of shops built together, sometimes under one roof.
The first known collec ...
s in the
island of Montreal
The Island of Montreal (french: Île de Montréal) is a large island in southwestern Quebec, Canada, that is the site of a number of municipalities including most of the city of Montreal and is the most populous island in Canada. It is the main ...
.
Baie d'Urfé
Plaza Baie d'Urfé
Plaza Baie d'Urfé is a small strip mall located in Baie d'Urfé, Quebec, Canada on 90 Morgan Street across from
Quebec Autoroute 20
Autoroute 20 is a Quebec Autoroute, following the Saint Lawrence River through one of the more densely populated parts of Canada, with its central section forming the main route of the Trans-Canada Highway from the A-25 interchange to the A-8 ...
. The shopping centre is currently owned by
First Capital Realty
First Capital REIT is a Canadian public real estate company, specializing in retail real estate, and based in Toronto, Ontario. It is one of the largest retail landlords in Canada.
History
First Capital was founded in 1994 as Centrefund Realt ...
and is anchored by
Provigo
Provigo is a grocery retailer based in Quebec, Canada, consisting of over 300 stores and franchises throughout the province. It operates a retailing chain of stores and distribution warehouses. It is owned by Loblaw Companies Limited.
The chain ...
. It opened in 1967 but was destroyed by a fire 1980. It was rebuilt and reopened in 1981.
Beaconsfield
Beaconsfield
Centre commercial Beaconsfield is a small indoor shopping mall (one of the smallest in the
West Island
The West Island () is the unofficial name given to the cities, towns and boroughs at the western end of the Island of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada. It is generally considered to consist of the Lakeshore municipalities of Dorval, Pointe-Cla ...
) located in
Beaconsfield, Quebec
Beaconsfield is a suburb on the Island of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, part of the Greater Montreal region locally referred to as the West Island. It is a prestigious residential community located on the north shore of Lac Saint-Louis, bordered on t ...
, Canada on 50 St. Charles Blvd. across from
Quebec Autoroute 20
Autoroute 20 is a Quebec Autoroute, following the Saint Lawrence River through one of the more densely populated parts of Canada, with its central section forming the main route of the Trans-Canada Highway from the A-25 interchange to the A-8 ...
. The anchor of this mall is a
Metro Plus
Metro Inc. is a Canadian food retailer operating in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario. The company is based in Montreal, Quebec with head office at 11011 Boulevard Maurice-Duplessis. Metro is the third largest grocer in Canada, after Loblaw ...
.
It was completed in April 1961 by
Ivanhoe Corporation
''Ivanhoe: A Romance'' () by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. Set in England in the Middle Ages, this novel marked a shift away from Scott’s prior practice of setting st ...
.
In 1992 its primary tenants were Steinberg and a Canadian Tire and the former became
Metro
Metro, short for metropolitan, may refer to:
Geography
* Metro (city), a city in Indonesia
* A metropolitan area, the populated region including and surrounding an urban center
Public transport
* Rapid transit, a passenger railway in an urba ...
. In 1995, Canadian Tire relocated to a new standalone store in
Kirkland, Quebec
Kirkland is an on-island suburb on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is named after Charles-Aimé Kirkland, a Quebec provincial politician. It was incorporated as a town in 1961.
Kirkland is primarily a residential comm ...
, while
Dollarama
Dollarama is a Canadian dollar store retail chain headquartered in Montreal. Since 2009 it is Canada's largest retailer of items for five dollars or less. Dollarama has over 1400 stores and has a presence in every province of Canada; Ontario has ...
, Wimgym & Royal Bank took over the lease.
The mall was sold to
First Capital Realty
First Capital REIT is a Canadian public real estate company, specializing in retail real estate, and based in Toronto, Ontario. It is one of the largest retail landlords in Canada.
History
First Capital was founded in 1994 as Centrefund Realt ...
in 2002.
Royal Bank moved to a new standalone location near the mall in 2008 and the mall's northern half was demolished (except for the former Metro store) and was replaced entirely with glass.
Metro Plus
Metro Inc. is a Canadian food retailer operating in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario. The company is based in Montreal, Quebec with head office at 11011 Boulevard Maurice-Duplessis. Metro is the third largest grocer in Canada, after Loblaw ...
replaced the former Canadian Tire store in December 2008.
Côte Saint-Luc
Cavendish Mall
Cavendish Mall (also known as Quartier Cavendish) is an indoor
shopping centre
A shopping center (American English) or shopping centre (Commonwealth English), also called a shopping complex, shopping arcade, shopping plaza or galleria, is a group of shops built together, sometimes under one roof.
The first known collec ...
in
Côte Saint-Luc
Côte Saint-Luc (; also spelled Côte-Saint-Luc, and known historically in English as Cote St. Luke) is a city on the island of Montreal in Quebec, Canada.
Geography
Along with Hampstead and Montreal West, Côte Saint-Luc forms an enclave within ...
, Quebec, Canada. It includes a
food court
A food court (in Asia-Pacific also called food hall or hawker centre) is generally an indoor plaza or common area within a facility that is contiguous with the counters of multiple food vendors and provides a common area for self-serve dinner. I ...
, a multiplex movie theatre and a medical clinic: the ''CLSC René Cassin''. A small highrise office-building is adjoined to the mall's southern half. Redeveloped in 2011, the mall was reduced to almost half its original size.
David Cronenberg
David Paul Cronenberg (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror genre, with his films exploring visceral bodily transformation ...
's 1977 film ''
Rabid
Rabies is a viral disease that causes encephalitis in humans and other mammals. Early symptoms can include fever and tingling at the site of exposure. These symptoms are followed by one or more of the following symptoms: nausea, vomiting, vio ...
'' features scenes shot in the mall.
The mall has experienced declining patronage over the past decade due to an aging population. Another serious blow was the closing of its two main anchors: Eaton's and Canadian Tire. Other notable closures included Caplan Duval, The Source, Gap, Consumers Distributing, Music World, Steinberg's, Miracle Mart, Staples, Cineplex theater and restaurants: Pumpernicks, Cattleman's and Katerina's. With the southern half of the mall vacant it had been considered a dead mall throughout the 2000s. In 2010, a large portion of the mall was demolished to make way for a new residential development.
Timeline
*1973: Mall opens. Anchors are
Eaton's
The T. Eaton Company Limited, later known as Eaton's, was a Canadian department store chain that was once the largest in the country. It was founded in 1869 in Toronto by Timothy Eaton, an immigrant from what is now Northern Ireland. Eaton's grew ...
,
Warshaw's
Saint Laurent Boulevard, also known as Saint Lawrence Boulevard (officially in french: boulevard Saint-Laurent), is a major street in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. A commercial artery and cultural heritage site, the street runs north–south through ...
, Steinberg's &
Miracle Mart
Miracle Mart was a chain of discount department stores with locations in Ontario and Quebec, Canada based in Saint-Laurent, Quebec. The chain was renamed to simply M in the mid-1980s.
History
The company was founded in early 1961 as Miracle Mart ...
*1978: Warshaws closes; becomes a Canadian Tire
*:
Miracle Mart
Miracle Mart was a chain of discount department stores with locations in Ontario and Quebec, Canada based in Saint-Laurent, Quebec. The chain was renamed to simply M in the mid-1980s.
History
The company was founded in early 1961 as Miracle Mart ...
closes; space divided to become Lupton Duval (later Caplan Duval) &
Cineplex Odeon
Cineplex Inc. (formerly Cineplex Galaxy) is a Canadian movie theatre and family entertainment centre chain headquartered in Toronto.
The company was formed in 2003 via the acquisition of Loews Cineplex's Canadian operations (which included t ...
*1991: Opening of
J&R Kosher
J&R Kosher Meat and Delicatessen is a Montreal kosher butcher and delicatessen established in 1952 by Robert Nemes, a Holocaust survivor and immigrant from Romania. It is currently at 5800 Cavendish Blvd in the heart of the city's Jewish community. ...
Meat and Delicatessen.
*1992: Steinberg's ceases operations; this store is taken over by
IGA Iga may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Ambush at Iga Pass, a 1958 Japanese film
* Iga no Kagemaru, Japanese manga series
* Iga, a set of characters from the Japanese novel '' The Kouga Ninja Scrolls''
Biology
* ''Iga'' (beetle), a gen ...
*1995: Firestone taken over by Pneus Expert.
*1996:
Consumers Distributing
Consumers Distributing (known in Quebec as Distribution aux Consommateurs, and informally as Consumers) was a catalogue store in Canada and the United States that operated from 1957 to 1996. At its peak, the company operated 243 outlets in Canad ...
closes.
*1997:
Scotiabank
The Bank of Nova Scotia (french: link=no, Banque de Nouvelle-Écosse), operating as Scotiabank (french: link=no, Banque Scotia), is a Canadian multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. One of Canada ...
acquires National Trust
*1998: Eaton's closes; part of space becomes
Superclub videotron
A superclub is a very large or superior nightclub, often with several rooms with different themes. The term was first coined in Mixmag, the British electronic dance and clubbing magazine, in 1995, referring to the new wave of clubs such as Min ...
.
*2005: Canadian Tire closes &
RadioShack
RadioShack, formerly RadioShack Corporation, is an American retailer founded in 1921.
At its peak in 1999, RadioShack operated over 8,000 worldwide stores named RadioShack or Tandy Electronics in the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Austra ...
The Gap The Gap may refer to:
Places Australia
* The Gap, New South Wales, a locality near Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
* The Gap, Northern Territory, a suburb of Alice Springs, Northern Territory
* The Gap, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland
...
closes.
*2007:
Music World
Music World Corporation is an American music production and music publishing company, representing hundreds of song and music cue titles for a small clientele of composers and lyricists including the company founder. The company was founded in 195 ...
, Browns Shoes & The Source close. Dollarama opens in (part of) Canadian Tire space.
*2009: Caplan Duval and Superclub Videotron close.
*2010: 40% of the mall demolished to make way for residential housing development.
*2011: Cavendish Mall rebranded as Quartier Cavendish.
*2015: Staples closes; Econofitness gym opens in its space.
*2018:
McDonald's
McDonald's Corporation is an American Multinational corporation, multinational fast food chain store, chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They rechri ...
closes.
*2020:
Cineplex Odeon
Cineplex Inc. (formerly Cineplex Galaxy) is a Canadian movie theatre and family entertainment centre chain headquartered in Toronto.
The company was formed in 2003 via the acquisition of Loews Cineplex's Canadian operations (which included t ...
multiplex theater closes; taken over by CinéStarz Deluxe.
Consolidation and revitalization
In August 2007 the owners announced a partial demolition to reduce the mall and consolidate its tenants. In August 2010 the remaining tenants were relocated to the north end of the mall. Demolition of the south end began October 2010.
In December 2010 demolition of 40% of mall was completed, effectively removing its southern end. The mall was reduced to of space (for let) with room for 55 stores and space for a small indoor children's play area. Previously the mall was approximately . Extensive reconstruction was done in the old Caplan Duval site, where the CLSC Rene Cassin is now located. The former section of the demolished mall underwent construction of roads and sidewalks along with newly built townhouses and semi-detached homes. This included the sale of 39 lots for single-family homes.
Côte Saint-Luc
Côte Saint-Luc Shopping Centre is a small indoor shopping mall in
Côte Saint-Luc
Côte Saint-Luc (; also spelled Côte-Saint-Luc, and known historically in English as Cote St. Luke) is a city on the island of Montreal in Quebec, Canada.
Geography
Along with Hampstead and Montreal West, Côte Saint-Luc forms an enclave within ...
, Quebec, Canada. Built in 1956 by
Ivanhoe
''Ivanhoe: A Romance'' () by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. Set in England in the Middle Ages, this novel marked a shift away from Scott’s prior practice of setting st ...
, it is now operated by
First Capital Realty
First Capital REIT is a Canadian public real estate company, specializing in retail real estate, and based in Toronto, Ontario. It is one of the largest retail landlords in Canada.
History
First Capital was founded in 1994 as Centrefund Realt ...
. It was transformed into an enclosed mall in 1970.
The first anchors of the mall were a Steinberg & Zellers. Prohome eventually took place of the Zellers store in 1987. Steinberg went bankrupt in 1992, and the store was sold as an
IGA Iga may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Ambush at Iga Pass, a 1958 Japanese film
* Iga no Kagemaru, Japanese manga series
* Iga, a set of characters from the Japanese novel '' The Kouga Ninja Scrolls''
Biology
* ''Iga'' (beetle), a gen ...
store. Prohome closed in 1997, and Rona Le Quincallier took its place. That store closed in 2005. Jean Coutu, which relocated within the mall, took part of the space, and a Caplan Duval opened in part of the former Rona space in 2010. Also, in the late 2000s, IGA's store was remodelled by counting its exterior.
Since its inception, the mall has always had only two major anchors; the current ones are IGA & Jean Coutu (occupying the former Zellers/Prohome/Rona space).
A
Blockbuster
Blockbuster or Block Buster may refer to:
*Blockbuster (entertainment) a term coined for an extremely successful movie, from which most other uses are derived.
Corporations
* Blockbuster (retailer), a defunct video and game rental chain
** Bl ...
store opened in the late 1990s, and closed in 2011.
Decarie Square
Decarie Square is a three-story indoor shopping mall, with two floors of retail shopping and one floor of office space, located on the outskirt of
Côte Saint-Luc
Côte Saint-Luc (; also spelled Côte-Saint-Luc, and known historically in English as Cote St. Luke) is a city on the island of Montreal in Quebec, Canada.
Geography
Along with Hampstead and Montreal West, Côte Saint-Luc forms an enclave within ...
, a city in
Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian ...
, Quebec, Canada.
The mall was constructed in 1977 at a cost of over $20 million, under the ownership of
Oshawa Group
Oshawa ( , also ; 2021 population 175,383; CMA 415,311) is a city in Ontario, Canada, on the Lake Ontario shoreline. It lies in Southern Ontario, approximately east of Downtown Toronto. It is commonly viewed as the eastern anchor of the Gr ...
. Going back as far back as the mid-1980s, it has been described as a
white elephant
A white elephant is a possession that its owner cannot dispose of, and whose cost, particularly that of maintenance, is out of proportion to its usefulness. In modern usage, it is a metaphor used to describe an object, construction project, sch ...
due its extremely high vacancy rate and low shopper traffic. Even today, much space in the mall remains empty with for renting signs plastered on vacant shop windows.
The mall includes the chain store
Winners
Winners Merchants International L.P is a chain of off-price Canada, Canadian department stores owned by TJX Companies.
It offers brand name clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, fine jewelry, beauty products, and housewares. Products are at a ...
-
HomeSense
HomeSense (stylized as Homesense in Europe and the United States) is a Canadian chain of discount home furnishing stores owned by TJX Companies. It originated in Canada in 2001, and was expanded to Europe in 2008 and the United States in 2017. O ...
and various independent discount and service shops. A fitness gym and a video lottery gambling bar are also situated within the mall. Government service offices of the SAAQ automobile licence bureau, Saint-Laurent Local Employment Center and
Service Canada
Service Canada is the program operated by Employment and Social Development Canada to serve as a single-point of access for the Government of Canada's largest and most heavily used programs, such as the Social Insurance Number, the Employment ...
employment insurance center are also found within the mall, as well as the Decarie Medical Centre. The third floor is exclusively for rental office space.
By 2011, in an effort to re-purpose much of the vacant shopping space into a more profitable venture, the mall owner, Canpro Investments Ltd., moved ahead with a project to convert more than a fifth of the 486,000 square foot mall's retail space into a medical centre (spanning 3 floors) with room for doctors' offices. The construction and renovation cost was estimated at the time between $10-million to $15-million and was started before any interested parties came forward or signed any leases; in essence a built-it-and-they-will-come strategy. The late
David Azrieli
David Joshua Azrieli, ( he, דוד יהושע עזריאלי; 10 May 1922 – 9 July 2014) was an Israeli-Canadian real estate tycoon, developer, designer, architect, and philanthropist. With an estimated net worth of US$3.1 billion as of M ...
, former head of Canpro, was quoted as saying "I'm willing to sign off that by August 2012 it will be ready and occupied." After a slow start, by 2017, the medical center had over 20 tenants with 30,000 square feet still available to lease. The space currently includes a walk in clinic, various specialists and doctor's offices.
Dollard-des-Ormeaux
Galeries des Sources
Galeries des Sources (originally West Island Mall until 1988) is an indoor
shopping mall
A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term "mall" originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that is, the term was used to refe ...
owned by Cogir located in the bordering cities of
Dollard-des-Ormeaux
Dollard-des-Ormeaux (; commonly referred to as D.D.O. or simply Dollard) is a predominantly English-speaking suburb of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is located on the Island of Montreal. The town was named after French martyr Adam ...
,
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
&
Dorval
Dorval () is an on-island suburban city on the island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. In 2016, the Canadian Census indicated that the population increased by 4.2% to 18,980. Although the city has the largest surface area in Montré ...
,
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
, Canada on Des Sources Blvd. &
Quebec Autoroute 40
Autoroute 40, officially known as Autoroute Félix-Leclerc outside Montreal and Metropolitan Autoroute/Autoroute Métropolitaine within Montreal, is an Autoroute on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in the Canadian province of Quebec. It ...
. Popular stores include
Marché Adonis
Marché Adonis is a supermarket chain operating in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario. The company is based in Montreal, Quebec. In 2011, Metro Inc. acquired a majority stake (55.5%) (CAD$153.8 million) in Marché Adonis.
History
A ...
,
Cinemas Guzzo
A movie theater (American English), cinema (British English), or cinema hall (Indian English), also known as a movie house, picture house, the movies, the pictures, picture theater, the silver screen, the big screen, or simply theater is a ...
, Canadian Tire and
Bureau en Gros
Staples Canada ULC, operating as Staples (also known in Quebec as Bureau en Gros; formerly known as The Business Depot and later Staples Business Depot), is a Canadian office supply retail chain owned by Sycamore Partners. The corporation is ...
.
There are restaurants in this mall with no indoor entrances, including the
Bellepro's
La Belle Province ( en, The Beautiful Province) is a well-known fast food restaurant chain in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is also known as ''LBP'', ''LB'', ''BP'', ''La Belle Pro'', ''Belle Pro'', ''La Belle'' or ''Labelle'', as nicknames. ...
restaurant, Marathon Souvlaki (occupying some of the old M Store space and Jack Astor's). Other stores with no indoor entrances are the clinics, the Guzzo movie theatre, a Canadian Tire & Optimum.
The mall opened on October 4, 1966, and was anchored by Steinberg's and
Miracle Mart
Miracle Mart was a chain of discount department stores with locations in Ontario and Quebec, Canada based in Saint-Laurent, Quebec. The chain was renamed to simply M in the mid-1980s.
History
The company was founded in early 1961 as Miracle Mart ...
. It was built by
Ivanhoe Corporation
''Ivanhoe: A Romance'' () by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. Set in England in the Middle Ages, this novel marked a shift away from Scott’s prior practice of setting st ...
which also was the original manager of the mall until January 2002.
The mall was expanded in 1986, and Steinberg moved out to the expanded space, becoming a Marché Du Jour (later Steinberg Plus in 1988 & Xtra in 1991). In addition, Miracle Mart was renamed M Store, and reducing the space of the store as well, giving part of the former Miracle Mart space to
Bouclair
Bouclair Inc. is a Canadian privately owned company and a lifestyle brand that offers home fashion and decor products including furniture, window coverings, bedding, lighting, home accents, wall decor and seasonal products through its own retai ...
. The Steinberg space (not counting Marché Du Jour/Steinberg Plus/Xtra) was left vacant until Canadian Tire occupied it in 1991. A mechanic centre was built as a result of expansion of the former Steinberg store that time. After Canadian Tire moved in, it kept the old Steinberg outdoor entrance, which has since been demolished. In 1992, the Xtra store & M Store closed after Steinberg went bankrupt; Super C &
Club Biz
Club may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Club'' (magazine)
* Club, a '' Yie Ar Kung-Fu'' character
* Clubs (suit), a suit of playing cards
* Club music
* "Club", by Kelsea Ballerini from the album ''kelsea''
Brands and enterprises ...
replaced the former Xtra store. In 1993, the west mall entrance was discontinued in favor of a Coconuts
play park
A playground, playpark, or play area is a place designed to provide an environment for children that facilitates play, typically outdoors. While a playground is usually designed for children, some are designed for other age groups, or people w ...
(which closed in early 1999; now a dental office & pediatric medical centre). Winners occupied the former M space in 1994, alongside a Club Ultima. Club Ultima closed in 1996, with a 10-screen Cinemas Guzzo occupying the old space in 1998. Club Biz went bankrupt, and its previously occupied site became
Bureau en Gros
Staples Canada ULC, operating as Staples (also known in Quebec as Bureau en Gros; formerly known as The Business Depot and later Staples Business Depot), is a Canadian office supply retail chain owned by Sycamore Partners. The corporation is ...
which officially launched on June 1, 1996 (though the store had already opened its doors before that date).
Also, Consumers Distributing left the mall in 1996, with its current tenants Corbeil Appliances occupying the first half of it in 1998. The second half was occupied by a Stokes warehouse store.
There is no mall entrance to Cinemas Guzzo. There was no outdoor entrance to Club Ultima, thus the indoor Club Ultima entrance became a Rubino shoes store. The Rubino shoes store moved to the old Stokes warehouse store in the early 2000s, with EconoSport occupying the old Rubino space, and it is currently used by Benix & Co.
In the late 2000s, Bouclair reduced its space, and an Elixir restaurant took the other half of the former Bouclair space. Following the expansion of
Canadian Tire
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited is a Canadian retail company which operates in the automotive, hardware, sports, leisure and housewares sectors. Its Canadian operations include: Canadian Tire (including Canadian Tire Petroleum gas stations a ...
in 2009, the mall entrance for Canadian Tire was closed, and L'Aubainerie Entrepôt took the old mall entrance. By 2011, Quebec's only Rob McIntosh store closed; the space remains empty as of today.
Dorval
Dorval Gardens
Dorval Gardens (French: Les Jardins Dorval) is a shopping mall in the suburb of
Dorval
Dorval () is an on-island suburban city on the island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. In 2016, the Canadian Census indicated that the population increased by 4.2% to 18,980. Although the city has the largest surface area in Montré ...
, in
Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian ...
,
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
, located on Dorval Avenue near Autoroute 20. It is the oldest shopping centre in the
West Island
The West Island () is the unofficial name given to the cities, towns and boroughs at the western end of the Island of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada. It is generally considered to consist of the Lakeshore municipalities of Dorval, Pointe-Cla ...
Village Champlain
This is a list of small shopping centres (mostly neighbourhood shopping centres) in the island of Montreal.
*A neighbourhood shopping centre is an industry term in North America for a shopping centre with of gross leasable area, typically ancho ...
Sam Steinberg
Samuel Steinberg, (December 25, 1905 – May 24, 1978) was a Hungarian-born Canadian businessman, investor and philanthropist. He was an immigrant to Canada who transformed the grocery store founded by his mother, Steinberg's Supermarket, into ...
and his
Ivanhoe Corporation
''Ivanhoe: A Romance'' () by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. Set in England in the Middle Ages, this novel marked a shift away from Scott’s prior practice of setting st ...
. The shopping centre was owned for more than 45 years by Ivanhoe but was sold in 2001. It is currently managed by CentreCorp Management Services Ltd. Anchor stores are Walmart, Hudson's Bay (closing in late 2021) and Maxi.
Dorval Gardens was originally built as a large L-shaped
strip mall
A strip mall, strip center or strip plaza is a type of shopping center common in North America where the stores are arranged in a row, with a sidewalk in front. Strip malls are typically developed as a unit and have large parking lots in front. ...
which opened in 1954 with 35 stores. Anchor stores in 1954 were
Morgan's
Henry Morgan & Company (colloquially Morgan's) was a Canadian department store chain founded by Henry Morgan in 1845. The first store was located in Montreal, and expanded to include 11 stores in Ontario and Quebec before being bought by Hudson's ...
department store and Steinberg's supermarket. Steinberg's and most of the original 35 tenants opened on April 7, 1954. A minority of tenants opened at slightly later dates including Morgan's which inaugurated on April 29, 1954. At 57, 000 square feet of floor space, it was the largest of the three suburban Morgan's locations until it was surpassed by a new store at Lawrence Plaza in
North York
North York is one of the six administrative districts of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located directly north of York, Old Toronto and East York, between Etobicoke to the west and Scarborough to the east. As of the 2016 Census, it had a popu ...
.
Morgan's added a second floor to its store in 1961. The Morgan's store was destroyed by a major fire on April 21, 1969, which caused over $1,000,000 in damage and required the help of firefighters from other neighbouring
West Island
The West Island () is the unofficial name given to the cities, towns and boroughs at the western end of the Island of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada. It is generally considered to consist of the Lakeshore municipalities of Dorval, Pointe-Cla ...
municipalities to contain the blaze. Morgan's was rebuilt afterwards and reopened in March 1970 after occupying a temporary location in the site of a former
bowling alley
A bowling alley (also known as a bowling center, bowling lounge, bowling arena, or historically bowling club) is a facility where the sport of bowling is played. It can be a dedicated facility or part of another, such as a Meetinghouse, clubhous ...
in the same building as the Dorval Theatre. It was rebranded as The Bay in 1972.
It was converted into an enclosed shopping centre in 1968. In the 1970s, Dorval Gardens was surrounded with glass (save for Steinberg's and The Bay). In 1985, the mall was expanded into its current layout, doubling its number of stores: the original parts of the mall correspond to what is to the south or west of the enclosed walkway, including the spaces currently occupied by Maxi and Hudson's Bay; areas to the east or north of the walkway were added. These additions included a
Pascal
Pascal, Pascal's or PASCAL may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Pascal (given name), including a list of people with the name
* Pascal (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
** Blaise Pascal, Fren ...
hardware store, which relocated from a nearby strip mall.
The Pascal store was closed and emptied in 1991, before reopening as
Zellers
Zellers was a Canadian discount department retail chain and is currently a brand name owned by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). Founded in 1931 in London, Ontario, in later decades it was based in Brampton, Ontario. Zellers was acquired by HBC i ...
in October 1992. Zellers closed its doors on January 22, 2012. Walmart assumed the lease and remodelled the store before opening it to the public in September 2012. This location was not one of the 39 Zellers stores that Walmart Canada acquired from
Target Canada
Target Canada Co. was the Canadian subsidiary of the Target Corporation, the eighth-largest retailer in the United States. Formerly headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, the subsidiary was formed with the acquisition of Zellers store leases fr ...
at a similar time.
In mid-1992, the Steinberg's supermarket became a Provigo despite the presence at the time of another grocery store with the same banner in the adjacent strip mall (located on 960 Herron Road). By late 1992, the Provigo at Dorval Gardens had been rebranded to its sister chain Maxi which remains to this day.
A
Dollarama
Dollarama is a Canadian dollar store retail chain headquartered in Montreal. Since 2009 it is Canada's largest retailer of items for five dollars or less. Dollarama has over 1400 stores and has a presence in every province of Canada; Ontario has ...
operated for a number of years before closing in late 2009. After a one-year absence, Dollarama returned to the mall in the space of
Pharmaprix
Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. (named Pharmaprix in Quebec) is a Canadian retail pharmacy chain based in Toronto, Ontario. It has more than 1,300 stores in nine provinces and two territories.
The company was founded by pharmacist Murray Koffler in 1962 ...
which itself has relocated to Dollarama's former space.
Sports Experts
Sports Experts Inc. is a major Canadian sports-retailer franchise primarily located in Quebec. It is part of FGL Sports (formerly The Forzani Group), itself part of the Canadian Tire group.
History
Sports Experts was founded in 1967. It was purch ...
returned to the mall, opening November 1, 2012 and occupying the same space it did in the 2000s (formerly Cohoes in the 1990s and early 2000s).
Hudson's Bay announced it will be permanently closing its store location at Dorval Gardens by September 2021, after 67 years of operation.
Montreal
1400 Sauvé Ouest (defunct)
The mall formerly located at 1400 Sauvé Ouest was an indoor shopping centre anchored by Maxi and Canadian Tire. Over the years, it fell into disrepair and was finally demolished in 2017 in order to clear the land for a new mixed-used development. The new project is composed of 5 high-rise residential towers, with commercial space available on street level.
Boulevard Shopping Centre
Le Boulevard Shopping Centre is a small indoor
shopping centre
A shopping center (American English) or shopping centre (Commonwealth English), also called a shopping complex, shopping arcade, shopping plaza or galleria, is a group of shops built together, sometimes under one roof.
The first known collec ...
Pie-IX Boulevard
Pie-IX Boulevard (french: boulevard Pie-IX, pronounced in both English and French), named after Pope Pius IX, is a major boulevard in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It runs for roughly in a northwest–southeast direction between Henri Bourassa Boulev ...
in
Montreal
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. The mall was officially inaugurated on September 29, 1953, with 32 stores. It was the third shopping centre built in the Montreal area, preceded by Norgate and
Village Champlain
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.
Le Boulevard is built in the shape of a L and is composed of 70 stores. The former The Bay store (originally Morgan's) and
Metro Plus
Metro Inc. is a Canadian food retailer operating in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario. The company is based in Montreal, Quebec with head office at 11011 Boulevard Maurice-Duplessis. Metro is the third largest grocer in Canada, after Loblaw ...
(originally Steinberg's) each border a side of the mall, with Canadian Tire (formerly Pascal's) being in the middle. Geographically, Le Boulevard is situated partly in the Saint-Michel neighbourhood and partly in the former city of Saint-Leonard. The mall is just a block north of the Rosemont neighbourhood.
Le Boulevard is managed by Crofton Moore. The mall underwent extensive renovations in the 2000s. New tenants in the revitalized centre include Urban Planet,
Dollarama
Dollarama is a Canadian dollar store retail chain headquartered in Montreal. Since 2009 it is Canada's largest retailer of items for five dollars or less. Dollarama has over 1400 stores and has a presence in every province of Canada; Ontario has ...
,
La Senza
La Senza Corporation is a Canadian fashion retailer that sells women's lingerie and intimate apparel. The La Senza brand is currently owned by Regent which operates and owns La Senza stores in Canada and the United States and uses a franchise mo ...
, Tim Hortons, Jean Coutu, Lunetterie New Look, and others. Longtime tenants of the mall include the
Royal Bank of Canada
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC; french: Banque royale du Canada) is a Canadian multinational financial services company and the largest bank in Canada by market capitalization. The bank serves over 17 million clients and has more than 89,000& ...
.
The Bay closed its Le Boulevard location on September 14, 2018, a few days shy of the store's 65th anniversary. Its first floor was occupied by a Surplus RD furniture store, but closed in 2021.
Le Boulevard was slated to close on December 1, 2021, after 68 years and be demolished to accommodate the addition of new stations of the
Montreal Metro Blue Line
The Blue Line (french: Ligne bleue) is one of the four lines of the Montreal Metro in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was the fourth to be built, notwithstanding its alternate official name of "Line 5" ( Line 3 was planned, but never built). Unlike ...
. However it was later announced that the shopping mall will remain open and that only its parking lot will be used for the extension of the Blue Line. Since the
Société de transport de Montréal
The Société de transport de Montréal (STM; en, Montreal Transit Corporation) is a public transport agency that operates transit bus and rapid transit services in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Established in 1861 as the "Montreal City Passenger Ra ...
had already been forced by a provincial court to purchase the entire mall from owner Crofton Moore as part of its
expropriation
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of the land, Le Boulevard was get a new landlord. Société de transport de Montréal gave the right to operate the shopping centre to its subsidiary Transgesco which in turn hired the service of
Colliers International
Colliers is a Canada-based diversified professional services and investment management company with approximately 18,000 employees in more than 400 offices in 63 countries.
The firm provides services to commercial real estate users, owners, inv ...
to support it and to manage the operations of Le Boulevard.
Comparison of anchor spaces:
Zellers
A small
Zellers
Zellers was a Canadian discount department retail chain and is currently a brand name owned by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). Founded in 1931 in London, Ontario, in later decades it was based in Brampton, Ontario. Zellers was acquired by HBC i ...
store was in the Boulevard shopping centre from about 1955 until 1976. It directly touched the north side of the Morgan/Bay store. After Zellers closed, The Bay expanded into the former space of Zellers and merged it into its own store.
Today, the old Zellers space can be recognized as the section of the vacant Bay store that had one floor (in contrast to the original section of The Bay which had 2 floors). The basement of The Bay, which was closed to the public in 2011, was also part of this defunct Zellers store.
Carré Lucerne
Carré Lucerne is a new mixed-used development that opened in 2018, and is located in Town of Mount-Royal owned by First Capital Realty. Formerly known as Centre commercial VMR, and Initially opened on May 8, 1956, as an outdoor strip mall with 22 stores, the property was demolished in 2015. The main anchors are Provigo and
Pharmaprix
Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. (named Pharmaprix in Quebec) is a Canadian retail pharmacy chain based in Toronto, Ontario. It has more than 1,300 stores in nine provinces and two territories.
The company was founded by pharmacist Murray Koffler in 1962 ...
.
Carrefour de La Pointe
Carrefour de La Pointe is small indoor mall and one of the few enclosed malls in Montreal's
Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles
Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles is a suburban borough (''arrondissement'') on the eastern tip of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at the eastern end of the Island of Montreal.
Geography
The borough is located at ...
borough. It first opened on August 26, 1976, with
Steinberg
Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH (trading as Steinberg) is a German musical software and hardware company based in Hamburg. It develops music writing, recording, arranging, and editing software, most notably Cubase, Nuendo, and Dorico. It also ...
and
Zellers
Zellers was a Canadian discount department retail chain and is currently a brand name owned by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). Founded in 1931 in London, Ontario, in later decades it was based in Brampton, Ontario. Zellers was acquired by HBC i ...
as anchors.
In 1981, the mall was sold to First City & ABRIM, then ABRIM & SITQ in 1990, later
Ivanhoé Cambridge
Ivanhoé Cambridge Inc. is a Canadian real estate company based in Montreal, Quebec. With assets around the globe, its areas of activity are investment, development, asset management, operations and leasing. The company's real estate portfolio c ...
and then to its current owners Creccal Placements Ltée in 2004. By June 2012, Zellers closed down, and was replaced by the current
Walmart
Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores from the United States, headquarter ...
in October 2012.
The mall also has minor tenants such as
Reitmans
Reitmans Canada Ltd. is a Canadian retailing company, specializing in women's clothing. The company operates several store brands, includinReitmans National Bank
In banking, the term national bank carries several meanings:
* a bank owned by the state
* an ordinary private bank which operates nationally (as opposed to regionally or locally or even internationally)
* in the United States, an ordinary p ...
, Jean Coutu & Dollarama, as well as two in-mall restaurants: Prince d'Orient and Montaza. There are also free-standing SAQ Sélection &
Tim Hortons
Tim Hortons Inc., commonly nicknamed Tim's, or Timmie's is a Canadian multinational coffeehouse and restaurant chain. Based in Toronto, Tim Hortons serves coffee, doughnuts, and other fast-food items. It is Canada's largest quick-service rest ...
buildings.
Carrefour Langelier
Carrefour Langelier is a small indoor shopping mall located in the St. Léonard borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada on the corner of Langelier Blvd. & Jean-Talon Blvd. The major anchors are
Walmart
Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores from the United States, headquarter ...
TD Canada Trust
TD Canada Trust, frequently shortened to simply TD, is the commercial banking operation of TD Bank Group in Canada. TD Canada Trust offers a range of financial services and products to more than 10 million Canadian customers through more than 1,1 ...
, Jean Coutu & Dollarama.
The mall opened in 1970 as Centre Langelier with 50 tenants anchored by the Marché Union &
Woolco
Woolco was an American-based discount retail chain. It was founded in 1962 in Columbus, Ohio, by the F. W. Woolworth Company. It was a full-line discount department store unlike the five-and-dime Woolworth stores which operated at the time. At its ...
. In the 1970s, the Marché Union evolved into Aliments Hypermarché and after IGA Boniprix; it eventually closed in the 1990s.
In 1994, Walmart replaced Woolco. A standalone
Burger King
Burger King (BK) is an American-based multinational chain store, chain of hamburger fast food restaurants. Headquartered in Miami-Dade County, Florida, the company was founded in 1953 as Insta-Burger King, a Jacksonville, Florida–based res ...
used to exist at the mall, but was closed in 2009 and demolished in 2011. By 2012, the
Cinémas Guzzo
Cinémas Guzzo is a regional chain of movie theaters located in the Canadian province of Quebec. There are currently 10 Méga-Plex locations and 1 Cinema location, all within the greater Montreal area.
History
Cinemas Guzzo was started by Angel ...
theatre was sold to Ciné Starz.
In October 2012, Walmart transitioned to a Walmart Supercentre, without an increase in size of its retail space. It remains to this day the last of the original 1994 Walmart Canada stores in the
Montreal Island
The Island of Montreal (french: Île de Montréal) is a large island in southwestern Quebec, Canada, that is the site of a number of municipalities including most of the city of Montreal and is the most populous island in Canada. It is the main ...
that is still located in its former Woolco space.
Centre Le Cavalier (defunct)
Centre Le Cavalier was a shopping mall located in the LaSalle borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada located on Champlain Blvd., next to the Place LaSalle shopping centre. The major anchors were Maxi &
Walmart
Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores from the United States, headquarter ...
.
The mall began in 1971 with a
Woolco
Woolco was an American-based discount retail chain. It was founded in 1962 in Columbus, Ohio, by the F. W. Woolworth Company. It was a full-line discount department store unlike the five-and-dime Woolworth stores which operated at the time. At its ...
, Wise & Dominion Stores. By the late 70s, Wise had pulled out of the mall and its space was divided between
Canada Post
Canada Post Corporation (french: Société canadienne des postes), trading as Canada Post (french: Postes Canada), is a Crown corporation that functions as the primary postal operator in Canada. Originally known as Royal Mail Canada (the opera ...
's sorting office and 3 boutiques on the mall. By the 1980s, Dominion became Provigo. By 1992, Provigo became
Héritage
Héritage was a banner of discount grocery stores owned by Provigo to market smaller supermarkets in Quebec. Launched in February 1982 by Provigo, the first store was located on 3565 Taschereau Boulevard in Saint-Hubert, Quebec.
The size of a ...
. In 1994, Wal-Mart took the former space of
Woolco
Woolco was an American-based discount retail chain. It was founded in 1962 in Columbus, Ohio, by the F. W. Woolworth Company. It was a full-line discount department store unlike the five-and-dime Woolworth stores which operated at the time. At its ...
Walmart
Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores from the United States, headquarter ...
. In 1995, Héritage was renamed Maxi. In the summer of 1999 the Maxi store in this mall was shuttered and used by Walmart as extra storage space. In 2002, Walmart closed and they relocated to a standalone location next to the
Carrefour Angrignon
Carrefour Angrignon is a shopping centre in the Montreal borough of LaSalle, Quebec, Canada. Popular stores include Hudson's Bay, Staples, Best Buy, Maxi and Famous Players. There is also a food court. Built in 1986, it is located on Newm ...
shopping centre and the last stores were also closed.
The mall was demolished in sections between 2002 and 2003. The former Walmart store was removed in the autumn of 2002 to be replaced by an
IGA Extra
IGA, Inc., is an American chain of grocery stores that operates in more than 41 countries. Unlike the chain store business model, IGA operates as a franchise through stores that are owned separately from the brand. Many of these stores operate i ...
store. Shortly thereafter, the former Provigo was demolished to allow for construction of condos. Canada Post and
Scotiabank
The Bank of Nova Scotia (french: link=no, Banque de Nouvelle-Écosse), operating as Scotiabank (french: link=no, Banque Scotia), is a Canadian multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. One of Canada ...
stayed in the mall right until the end in 2003. In the early 2000s space that had formerly been a Sunnys gas bar was cleared (upon demolition it was landscaped) and paved into new parking space to allow the vacant parking space adjacent to the
Caisse Populaire
A credit union, a type of financial institution similar to a commercial bank, is a member-owned nonprofit financial cooperative. Credit unions generally provide services to members similar to retail banks, including deposit accounts, provision ...
Centre Domaine is small indoor shopping centre located in the Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada at the corner of Sherbrooke St. & Langelier Blvd., on Granby Av. It is a two-minute walk from the Langelier métro station and about 1 km from the nearby larger
Place Versailles
Place Versailles is a shopping mall located at the corner of Sherbrooke Street East and Highway 25 in the Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. At more than http://cmm.qc.ca/vision2025/vision2025_docdeclencheur_4 ...
shopping centre. A shopping mall formerly managed by
Cadillac Fairview
The Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited is a Canadian company that invests in, owns, and manages commercial real estate, mainly in Canada and the United States. As of March 2017, the company had 73 properties, encompassing 38 million square feet ...
, it is currently operated by
First Capital Realty
First Capital REIT is a Canadian public real estate company, specializing in retail real estate, and based in Toronto, Ontario. It is one of the largest retail landlords in Canada.
History
First Capital was founded in 1994 as Centrefund Realt ...
. The anchors are
Metro Plus
Metro Inc. is a Canadian food retailer operating in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario. The company is based in Montreal, Quebec with head office at 11011 Boulevard Maurice-Duplessis. Metro is the third largest grocer in Canada, after Loblaw ...
and
Walmart Canada
Walmart Canada is the Canadian subsidiary of Walmart which is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario. It was founded on March 17, 1994, with the purchase of the Woolco Canada chain from the F. W. Woolworth Company.
Originally consisting of disco ...
.
It opened on August 13, 1959, with 25 tenants anchored by Steinberg and Woolworth, and were shortly joined by Zellers and
Horizon
The horizon is the apparent line that separates the surface of a celestial body from its sky when viewed from the perspective of an observer on or near the surface of the relevant body. This line divides all viewing directions based on whether i ...
department store.
Horizon was succeeded by Eaton's Bargain in 1979 and the original Zellers store in the mall closed in 1980. The latter was substituted mainly by
Rossy
Rossy is a Canadian regional chain of variety stores located primarily in the provinces of Quebec, Newfoundland, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada.
The company was founded by Michael Rossy in 1949. During the 1960s to the 1990s, different Ro ...
in 1981, while Eaton's Bargain closed in 1982. After an absence of 3 years, Zellers returned to the mall in 1983, this time as an
anchor store
In retail, an "anchor tenant", sometimes called an "anchor store", "draw tenant", or "key tenant", is a considerably larger tenant in a shopping mall, often a department store or retail chain. They are typically located at the ends of malls. Wit ...
, assuming the lease of the former Eaton's Bargain store. The new Zellers was slightly bigger than the Horizon/Eaton's store it replaced because its
Family Restaurant
Restaurants fall into several industry classifications, based upon menu style, preparation methods and pricing, as well as the means by which the food is served to the customer. This article mainly describes the situation in the USA, while catego ...
stood on a portion of the old Zellers that closed in 1980.
In the 1980s, Woolworth was losing ground in Quebec and the store in the mall was shut down. Its space has since been subdivided.
By 1992, the Steinberg supermarket chain went bankrupt and the store at the mall was sold to
Metro Inc.
Metro Inc. is a Canadian food retailer operating in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario. The company is based in Montreal, Quebec with head office at 11011 Boulevard Maurice-Duplessis. Metro is the third largest grocer in Canada, after Loblaw ...
The Metro became a Metro Plus after the supermarket expansion in the early 2000s.
In June 2012, Zellers closed and was replaced by
Walmart
Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores from the United States, headquarter ...
in October 2012.
Forest
Centre commercial Forest is a small
shopping mall
A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term "mall" originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that is, the term was used to refe ...
in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in the borough of
Montréal-Nord
Montreal North (french: Montréal-Nord) is a borough (''arrondissement'') of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It consists entirely of the former city of Montréal-Nord on Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec. It was amalgamated into t ...
. It is located on Pie-IX boulevard. The anchor was a
Bureau en Gros
Staples Canada ULC, operating as Staples (also known in Quebec as Bureau en Gros; formerly known as The Business Depot and later Staples Business Depot), is a Canadian office supply retail chain owned by Sycamore Partners. The corporation is ...
(Staples). Others stores includes Pharmaprix, Dollarama,
Rossy
Rossy is a Canadian regional chain of variety stores located primarily in the provinces of Quebec, Newfoundland, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada.
The company was founded by Michael Rossy in 1949. During the 1960s to the 1990s, different Ro ...
and a Yellow shoe source. There is a
St-Hubert
St-Hubert BBQ Ltd is a chain of Canadian casual dining restaurants best known for its rotisserie chicken. St-Hubert is most popular in Quebec, and in other French-Canadian areas such as Eastern Ontario and New Brunswick. St-Hubert is the 16t ...
restaurant in the parking lot, at the eastern part of the mall. Formerly an
Ivanhoe
''Ivanhoe: A Romance'' () by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. Set in England in the Middle Ages, this novel marked a shift away from Scott’s prior practice of setting st ...
mall, it is now owned by
RioCan
RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust is the second-largest real estate investment trust (REIT) in Canada. It has an enterprise value of approximately $14 billion, and owns 289 primarily retail properties, with a net leasable area of 44 million ...
.
Defunct grocery stores chain Steinberg originally built a supermarket on this land in December 1955. In September 1956, a
strip mall
A strip mall, strip center or strip plaza is a type of shopping center common in North America where the stores are arranged in a row, with a sidewalk in front. Strip malls are typically developed as a unit and have large parking lots in front. ...
anchored by Woolworth at the other end was added to form the Forest shopping centre, making this Steinberg one of the most profitable for the company. In the early 1970s, the mall was enclosed.
In the 1980s, facing difficulties with others supermarket chains, the Steinberg became a ''Steinberg Super Marché'', more akin to the 21st century supermarket. In 1992, when Steinberg went bankrupt,
Provigo
Provigo is a grocery retailer based in Quebec, Canada, consisting of over 300 stores and franchises throughout the province. It operates a retailing chain of stores and distribution warehouses. It is owned by Loblaw Companies Limited.
The chain ...
bought the store and after being a Provigo for a while, it was converted to
Héritage
Héritage was a banner of discount grocery stores owned by Provigo to market smaller supermarkets in Quebec. Launched in February 1982 by Provigo, the first store was located on 3565 Taschereau Boulevard in Saint-Hubert, Quebec.
The size of a ...
(Provigo's former discount supermarket banner). After being Héritage, it became a Maxi.
Woolworth, which had survived the company's waves of closures in the 1980s, finally succumbed in 1994 when the chain folded in the country. Rossy replaced Woolworth.
When
Loblaws
Loblaws Inc. is a Canadian supermarket chain with stores located in the provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan. Headquartered in Brampton, Ontario, Loblaws is a subsidiary of Loblaw Companies Limited, C ...
(after having bought Maxi in 1998) opened a new Loblaws location south of the mall, the Maxi supermarket was closed and the space was taken by Bureau en Gros. Some years later, a Casa Grecque restaurant opened in a small part of the Bureau en Gros.
In spring 2011, due to
Blockbuster
Blockbuster or Block Buster may refer to:
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* Blockbuster (retailer), a defunct video and game rental chain
** Bl ...
financial difficulties, one third of all Blockbusters in Quebec were closed, including the location in the mall. The space formerly occupied has been taken by the Dollarama store.
Galeries Lachine
Galeries Lachine is small indoor shopping centre located at the intersection of 32e Avenue & Rue Remembrance in Lachine. this enclosed shopping centre offers 45 units totalling 167,383 sq. ft featuring retailers such as Maxi, Pharmaprix, Dollarama,
and Rossy.
Galeries Lachine opened in 1971. The original tenants of the mall were Steinberg and
Miracle Mart
Miracle Mart was a chain of discount department stores with locations in Ontario and Quebec, Canada based in Saint-Laurent, Quebec. The chain was renamed to simply M in the mid-1980s.
History
The company was founded in early 1961 as Miracle Mart ...
(renamed simply to M in 1987). It was one of the many malls in Montreal that used to be owned by
Ivanhoe
''Ivanhoe: A Romance'' () by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. Set in England in the Middle Ages, this novel marked a shift away from Scott’s prior practice of setting st ...
.
it now the property of
RioCan
RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust is the second-largest real estate investment trust (REIT) in Canada. It has an enterprise value of approximately $14 billion, and owns 289 primarily retail properties, with a net leasable area of 44 million ...
.
Galeries Normandie
Galeries Normandie is a small indoor shopping mall located in the
Ahuntsic-Cartierville
Ahuntsic-Cartierville ( (local accent)) is a borough (''arrondissement'') of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The borough was created following the 2002 municipal reorganization of Montreal. It comprises two main neighbourhoods, Ahuntsic, ...
borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada on the corner of De Salaberry Ave. &
Quebec Autoroute 15
Autoroute 15 (also called the Décarie Expressway (English) or Autoroute Décarie (French) between the Turcot and Décarie Interchanges in Montreal and the Laurentian Autoroute (English) or Autoroute des Laurentides (French) north of Autorout ...
. The major anchors are
IGA Extra
IGA, Inc., is an American chain of grocery stores that operates in more than 41 countries. Unlike the chain store business model, IGA operates as a franchise through stores that are owned separately from the brand. Many of these stores operate i ...
,
Rossy
Rossy is a Canadian regional chain of variety stores located primarily in the provinces of Quebec, Newfoundland, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada.
The company was founded by Michael Rossy in 1949. During the 1960s to the 1990s, different Ro ...
&
Bureau En Gros
Staples Canada ULC, operating as Staples (also known in Quebec as Bureau en Gros; formerly known as The Business Depot and later Staples Business Depot), is a Canadian office supply retail chain owned by Sycamore Partners. The corporation is ...
. Within the mall, there are standalone
McDonald's
McDonald's Corporation is an American Multinational corporation, multinational fast food chain store, chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They rechri ...
Tim Hortons
Tim Hortons Inc., commonly nicknamed Tim's, or Timmie's is a Canadian multinational coffeehouse and restaurant chain. Based in Toronto, Tim Hortons serves coffee, doughnuts, and other fast-food items. It is Canada's largest quick-service rest ...
/
Thai Express
Thai Express is a chain of restaurants serving Thai cuisine. It opened its first restaurant at Holland Village in Singapore in May 2002. Since then, there have been other outlets in Malaysia, China and Vietnam.
History
The idea of a restaurant ...
buildings.
The mall began on August 22, 1961, with
Pascal
Pascal, Pascal's or PASCAL may refer to:
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* Pascal (given name), including a list of people with the name
* Pascal (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
** Blaise Pascal, Fren ...
Greenberg
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for a total of 31 tenants. On July 13, 1981, the Dominion store in this mall became Provigo. Pascal went bankrupted on May 16, 1991. Pascal's location was converted between mall space &
Rossy
Rossy is a Canadian regional chain of variety stores located primarily in the provinces of Quebec, Newfoundland, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada.
The company was founded by Michael Rossy in 1949. During the 1960s to the 1990s, different Ro ...
, even though Pascal had a second floor (now office spaces). In 1990/91, the Steinberg became Xtra, the new discount supermarket division for the group. By 1992, Xtra was converted to IGA when Steinberg went bankrupt.
Loblaws
Loblaws Inc. is a Canadian supermarket chain with stores located in the provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan. Headquartered in Brampton, Ontario, Loblaws is a subsidiary of Loblaw Companies Limited, C ...
acquired Provigo in 1998, and Provigo closed in 2007. Provigo's vacant space became Baron Sports for a little while until the IGA moved to the former Provigo space and expanded the space to become the current IGA Extra. Later on, the former Steinberg store was divided to both a Bureau En Gros &
Pharmaprix
Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. (named Pharmaprix in Quebec) is a Canadian retail pharmacy chain based in Toronto, Ontario. It has more than 1,300 stores in nine provinces and two territories.
The company was founded by pharmacist Murray Koffler in 1962 ...
(which can only be accessed outdoor). By 2011,
Blockbuster
Blockbuster or Block Buster may refer to:
*Blockbuster (entertainment) a term coined for an extremely successful movie, from which most other uses are derived.
Corporations
* Blockbuster (retailer), a defunct video and game rental chain
** Bl ...
closed down.
Galeries Saint-Laurent
Galeries Saint-Laurent is a small indoor shopping centre located on Marcel-Laurin Blvd, north of Côte-Vertu Blvd., in the Bois-Franc neighbourhood of St. Laurent. Some of its tenants include
Giant Tiger
Giant Tiger Stores Limited is a Canadian discount store chain which operates over 260 stores across Canada. The company's stores operate under the Giant Tiger banner in Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island ...
Bank of Montreal
The Bank of Montreal (BMO; french: Banque de Montréal, link=no) is a Canadian multinational investment bank and financial services company.
The bank was founded in Montreal, Quebec, in 1817 as Montreal Bank; while its head office remains in ...
. It opened on October 31, 1973, with 60 stores anchored by
Horizon
The horizon is the apparent line that separates the surface of a celestial body from its sky when viewed from the perspective of an observer on or near the surface of the relevant body. This line divides all viewing directions based on whether i ...
, Zellers and a
Dominion
The term ''Dominion'' is used to refer to one of several self-governing nations of the British Empire.
"Dominion status" was first accorded to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, South Africa, and the Irish Free State at the 1926 ...
supermarket. It was built on land formerly owned by
Canadair
Canadair Ltd. was a civil and military aircraft manufacturer in Canada. In 1986, its assets were acquired by Bombardier Aerospace, the aviation division of Canadian transport conglomerate Bombardier Inc.
Canadair's origins lie in the establishm ...
.
Méga Centre Côte-Vertu
Méga Centre Côte-Vertu is a power centre located in Montreal, Quebec's St. Laurent borough at the corner of Côte-Vertu Blvd. & Bégin Street. The main anchors are Rona L'entrepôt,
Michaels
Michaels Stores, Inc., more commonly known as Michaels, is a privately held chain of 1,252 American and Canadian arts and crafts stores, as of January 2021. It is one of North America's largest providers of arts, crafts, framing, floral and wall ...
,
Bureau En Gros
Staples Canada ULC, operating as Staples (also known in Quebec as Bureau en Gros; formerly known as The Business Depot and later Staples Business Depot), is a Canadian office supply retail chain owned by Sycamore Partners. The corporation is ...
Walmart
Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores from the United States, headquarter ...
.
The mall began in the Spring 1973 as Le Bazar, an enclosed mall, with exactly 50 stores. Original anchors were Steinberg,
Woolco
Woolco was an American-based discount retail chain. It was founded in 1962 in Columbus, Ohio, by the F. W. Woolworth Company. It was a full-line discount department store unlike the five-and-dime Woolworth stores which operated at the time. At its ...
, as well as a
Pascal
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** Blaise Pascal, Fren ...
furniture store that had opened before the others in 1972.
In the 1990s, it also housed a
Toys "R" Us
Toys "R" Us is an American toy, clothing, and baby product retailer owned by Tru Kids (doing business as Tru Kids Brands) and various others. The company was founded in 1957; its first store was built in April 1948, with its headquarters loc ...
store. During the 2000s, the indoor mall format and Le Bazar name were both retired. Previously, there was also a Bikini Village warehouse and a
Future Shop
Future Shop was a Canadian electronics store chain. It was established in 1982 by Hassan Khosrowshahi. By 1990, the chain had become the country's largest retailer of computer and consumer electronics. In January 2013, the company operated 139 l ...
in the shopping centre.
Le Bazar had Canada's first Club Price in 1986. It had replaced the former Woolco store.
Norgate
Norgate
shopping centre
A shopping center (American English) or shopping centre (Commonwealth English), also called a shopping complex, shopping arcade, shopping plaza or galleria, is a group of shops built together, sometimes under one roof.
The first known collec ...
(French: Galeries Norgate) is a
strip mall
A strip mall, strip center or strip plaza is a type of shopping center common in North America where the stores are arranged in a row, with a sidewalk in front. Strip malls are typically developed as a unit and have large parking lots in front. ...
in
Saint-Laurent, Quebec
Saint-Laurent () is a borough of the city of Montreal, Canada, located in the northern part of the island. Although it is no longer an independent city, it is still commonly known as Ville Saint-Laurent (''City of Saint-Laurent'') or by its initi ...
. It was designed by
architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...
Max Kalman and built in 1949. It officially opened its doors on December 6, 1950. It is the oldest shopping centre in Montreal. It is also one of the first major shopping centres in the province and the oldest strip mall in the country. It inaugurated with more than 15 tenants and parking space for 750 cars.
Norgate was expanded in 1956 and houses were built directly north of the shopping centre to form a residential district, known as Les Habitations Norgate, that was eventually renovated in the 1970s. The 1956 extension can be recognized today as the two southernmost tenant spaces occupied by the
Pharmaprix
Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. (named Pharmaprix in Quebec) is a Canadian retail pharmacy chain based in Toronto, Ontario. It has more than 1,300 stores in nine provinces and two territories.
The company was founded by pharmacist Murray Koffler in 1962 ...
drug store and the Cité Santé Saint-Laurent medical clinic. Back then, the expansion had brought a Zellers store which was located where Pharmaprix is now.https://croftonmoore.com/images/dyn/proprietes_19_27.pdf
On March 10, 2008, the anchor tenant,
Provigo
Provigo is a grocery retailer based in Quebec, Canada, consisting of over 300 stores and franchises throughout the province. It operates a retailing chain of stores and distribution warehouses. It is owned by Loblaw Companies Limited.
The chain ...
supermarket, suffered a partial roof collapse due to the weight of snow from the intense snowfall occurring from March 8 through March 10.
Norgate is located between
Décarie Boulevard
Autoroute 15 (also called the Décarie Expressway (English) or Autoroute Décarie (French) between the Turcot and Décarie Interchanges in Montreal and the Laurentian Autoroute (English) or Autoroute des Laurentides (French) north of Autorout ...
and ''Saint-Germain Street'' as well as between ''rue Rochon'' and
Côte-Vertu Boulevard
Côte-Vertu Boulevard (french: Boulevard de la Côte-Vertu) is a boulevard in the Saint-Laurent borough in Montreal, Quebec. It crosses the borough from north-east to south-west of the Air Canada Technical Center to the west of the Chomedey High ...
. The shopping centre is L-shaped, fronting the street at the bottom of the L and its related short-side. The bottom of the L coincides with rue Rochon, the short side of the bottom and the long leg of the L correspond with Décarie. The long part of the L sits in the middle of the parking lot, with loading docks along the back, and parking spaces all around, running parallel to Decarie. The back and front of the L open onto parking lots. Across Décarie Boulevard from Norgate lies the
Côte-Vertu Côte-Vertu may refer to:
*Côte-Vertu Boulevard, in Saint-Laurent and Dorval (Montreal)
*Côte-Vertu station, a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Saint-Laurent
*Terminus Côte-Vertu, an Exo bus terminus partly north and partly south of the ...
Metro
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* Metro (city), a city in Indonesia
* A metropolitan area, the populated region including and surrounding an urban center
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Place Bourassa is a small indoor shopping centre located in the borough of
Montréal-Nord
Montreal North (french: Montréal-Nord) is a borough (''arrondissement'') of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It consists entirely of the former city of Montréal-Nord on Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec. It was amalgamated into t ...
, Montreal, at the corner of Lacordaire Boulevard and
Henri Bourassa Boulevard
Henri Bourassa Boulevard (officially in french: Boulevard Henri-Bourassa) is a major east–west street located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Located in the north of the Montreal Island, island of Montreal, it runs parallel to Gouin Boulevard. Sp ...
. The mall has 54 stores, with and its anchor tenants are Super C and
Canadian Tire
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited is a Canadian retail company which operates in the automotive, hardware, sports, leisure and housewares sectors. Its Canadian operations include: Canadian Tire (including Canadian Tire Petroleum gas stations a ...
.
It opened in 1966 with Steinberg and
Hart
Hart often refers to:
* Hart (deer)
Hart may also refer to:
Organizations
* Hart Racing Engines, a former Formula One engine manufacturer
* Hart Skis, US ski manufacturer
* Hart Stores, a Canadian chain of department stores
* Hart's Reptile W ...
as anchors.
The mall expanded on Lacordaire Boulevard with the addition of
Zellers
Zellers was a Canadian discount department retail chain and is currently a brand name owned by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). Founded in 1931 in London, Ontario, in later decades it was based in Brampton, Ontario. Zellers was acquired by HBC i ...
which opened on March 10, 1971, the same date as the store at
Place Newman
This is a list of small shopping centres in the island of Montreal.
Baie d'Urfé
Plaza Baie d'Urfé
Plaza Baie d'Urfé is a small strip mall located in Baie d'Urfé, Quebec, Canada on 90 Morgan Street across from Quebec Autoroute 20. The sho ...
. 35 other stores were added two months later in May 1971.
When the Steinberg supermarket company went out of business in 1992, the store was sold to
Metro
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* Metro (city), a city in Indonesia
* A metropolitan area, the populated region including and surrounding an urban center
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and by 1997, the Metro store was converted to its sister chain Super C.
During the
January 1998 North American ice storm
The North American Ice Storm of 1998 (also known as Great Ice Storm of 1998) was a massive combination of five smaller successive ice storms in January 1998 that struck a relatively narrow swath of land from eastern Ontario to southern Quebec, ...
, at least 25% of the roof of the Zellers store collapsed. As a result, Zellers announced it would temporarily close 12 of its stores in the province for inspection and roof de-icing. The administrators of Place Bourassa closed as well the entire shopping mall for inspection due to the Zellers collapse.
Ivanhoe
''Ivanhoe: A Romance'' () by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. Set in England in the Middle Ages, this novel marked a shift away from Scott’s prior practice of setting st ...
and its descendant
Ivanhoe Cambridge
''Ivanhoe: A Romance'' () by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. Set in England in the Middle Ages, this novel marked a shift away from Scott’s prior practice of setting ...
owned and managed the mall from its construction in 1966 to 2006. The mall is currently owned and managed by SmartCentres.
The Zellers store closed in 2014 is now a Canadian Tire.
Place Frontenac
Place Frontenac is a small indoor mall locate located next to the Frontenac metro station. The shopping centre is attached to a residential rental developpement called Tours Frontenac. Some of the tenants include an IGA supermarket, a Familiprix pharmacy and a McDonald's restaurant. There are proposals and discussions being held to redevelop the property.
Place LaSalle
Place LaSalle is a strip mall located in the LaSalle borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The major anchors are Super C,
Hart
Hart often refers to:
* Hart (deer)
Hart may also refer to:
Organizations
* Hart Racing Engines, a former Formula One engine manufacturer
* Hart Skis, US ski manufacturer
* Hart Stores, a Canadian chain of department stores
* Hart's Reptile W ...
, and to a lesser extent, Pharmaprix.
Place LaSalle was opened in the 1960s with a Steinberg, Miracle Mart and Greenberg as the main anchors. There was also an outparcel that was home to a
Fina
FINA (french: Fédération internationale de natation, en, International Swimming Federation, link=yes) (to be renamed as World Aquatics by ) is the international federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for administer ...
Service Centre (this would later become McDonald's and Yellow shoes). Along with the now-defunct Centre Le Cavalier, Place LaSalle was one of the first indoor malls in LaSalle.
Initially the mall was built as a 2 store unit (Miracle Mart and Steinbergs) with a Fina service centre outparcel (later McDonald's); the mall was added shortly after with a section going from the end of Miracle Mart towards Gagné street. In the early 1980s, the mall was extended towards the Steinberg store (Steinberg only gained mall access with this renovation). There was an attempt in 1988 to modernize the mall due to competition from other malls. This included a new entrance facing Champlain leading to an attempt at creating a food court. Around this time the former Greenberg space became Géant des Aubaines (it later became Dollarama)
In April 1987, Miracle Mart was renamed as M. In 1991, in an effort to compete with Maxi,
Héritage
Héritage was a banner of discount grocery stores owned by Provigo to market smaller supermarkets in Quebec. Launched in February 1982 by Provigo, the first store was located on 3565 Taschereau Boulevard in Saint-Hubert, Quebec.
The size of a ...
and Super C, the Steinberg was converted to Sélex, a discount supermarket. By 1992, when the Steinberg group went bankrupt, Sélex became a
Metro
Metro, short for metropolitan, may refer to:
Geography
* Metro (city), a city in Indonesia
* A metropolitan area, the populated region including and surrounding an urban center
Public transport
* Rapid transit, a passenger railway in an urba ...
, and the M store was closed. In 1994, a 12-screen
Cineplex Odeon
Cineplex Inc. (formerly Cineplex Galaxy) is a Canadian movie theatre and family entertainment centre chain headquartered in Toronto.
The company was formed in 2003 via the acquisition of Loews Cineplex's Canadian operations (which included t ...
and a GoCart track took over the lease of M. In the early 2000s, Hart replaced the GoCart track. Somewhat around the mid/late-2000s, the Metro store was converted as a Metro Plus. In May 2010, Metro Plus was converted to Super C and Pharmaprix was relocated to a standalone building, joining the
McDonald's
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(which has since been demolished & rebuilt due to the classic look of the building), Tim Hortons & SAQ buildings. In November 2020, the
Cineplex Odeon
Cineplex Inc. (formerly Cineplex Galaxy) is a Canadian movie theatre and family entertainment centre chain headquartered in Toronto.
The company was formed in 2003 via the acquisition of Loews Cineplex's Canadian operations (which included t ...
theater closed.
Since then, the mall has started to experience such a decline, making Place LaSalle a
dead mall
A dead mall (also known as a ghost mall, zombie mall, or abandoned mall) is a shopping mall with a high vacancy rate or a low consumer traffic level, or that is deteriorating in some manner.
Many malls in North America are considered "dead ...
due to increased competition up against larger rival
Carrefour Angrignon
Carrefour Angrignon is a shopping centre in the Montreal borough of LaSalle, Quebec, Canada. Popular stores include Hudson's Bay, Staples, Best Buy, Maxi and Famous Players. There is also a food court. Built in 1986, it is located on Newm ...
& smaller rival
Place Newman
This is a list of small shopping centres in the island of Montreal.
Baie d'Urfé
Plaza Baie d'Urfé
Plaza Baie d'Urfé is a small strip mall located in Baie d'Urfé, Quebec, Canada on 90 Morgan Street across from Quebec Autoroute 20. The sho ...
. To ensure its death, lease renewals were refused by management, in favour of dividing the land between condominiums and the more profitable outdoor mall concept. In mid-October 2011, a
National Bank of Canada
The National Bank of Canada (french: Banque Nationale du Canada) is the sixth largest commercial bank in Canada. It is headquartered in Montreal, and has branches in most Canadian provinces and 2.4 million personal clients. National Bank is the ...
opened next to the SAQ. Place LaSalle is currently under heavy renovation, but is still open. The new mall should open in Winter.
In 2011,
Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire is a Canadian indie rock band, consisting of husband and wife Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, alongside Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury and Jeremy Gara. The band's current touring line-up also includes former core member S ...
filmed parts of their music video for 'Sprawl II' inside Place LaSalle and its parking lot.
Place Newman
Place Newman is a small indoor shopping mall located in the LaSalle borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada on Dollard Ave. corner Newman Blvd. The major tenants are Maxi,
Rossy
Rossy is a Canadian regional chain of variety stores located primarily in the provinces of Quebec, Newfoundland, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada.
The company was founded by Michael Rossy in 1949. During the 1960s to the 1990s, different Ro ...
, Bouclair Maison, Dollarama, and
Winners
Winners Merchants International L.P is a chain of off-price Canada, Canadian department stores owned by TJX Companies.
It offers brand name clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, fine jewelry, beauty products, and housewares. Products are at a ...
. There is a standalone
Wendy's
Wendy's is an American international fast food restaurant chain founded by Dave Thomas (1932–2002) on November 15, 1969, in Columbus, Ohio. Its headquarters moved to Dublin, Ohio, on January 29, 2006. As of December 31, 2018, Wendy's was the ...
restaurant location.
Built in 1971 by
Ivanhoe Corporation
''Ivanhoe: A Romance'' () by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. Set in England in the Middle Ages, this novel marked a shift away from Scott’s prior practice of setting st ...
, roughly at the same time as Galeries Lachine, it was sold in September 2002 to
RioCan
RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust is the second-largest real estate investment trust (REIT) in Canada. It has an enterprise value of approximately $14 billion, and owns 289 primarily retail properties, with a net leasable area of 44 million ...
. Place Newman's anchors from 1971 until 1992 were
Steinberg
Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH (trading as Steinberg) is a German musical software and hardware company based in Hamburg. It develops music writing, recording, arranging, and editing software, most notably Cubase, Nuendo, and Dorico. It also ...
and
Zellers
Zellers was a Canadian discount department retail chain and is currently a brand name owned by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). Founded in 1931 in London, Ontario, in later decades it was based in Brampton, Ontario. Zellers was acquired by HBC i ...
; the former went bankrupt in 1992 and the latter closed its Place Newman store circa 2001.
In mid-1992, Steinberg's became
Provigo
Provigo is a grocery retailer based in Quebec, Canada, consisting of over 300 stores and franchises throughout the province. It operates a retailing chain of stores and distribution warehouses. It is owned by Loblaw Companies Limited.
The chain ...
, which would in turn be converted into Maxi in late 1992. The store was remodelled, making the supermarket have an outdoor entrance for the first time in this mall.
The anchor space of Zellers was dismantled and is now the home of Rossy, Au Vieux Duluth and a few others.
Schools near by Place Newman are Saint Lawrence Academy Junior/Senior and Children's World.
Place Viau
Place Viau is a new multi-level open-air shopping centre on top of a building that includes a Walmart store and other retail/commercial space, all connected with convenient pedestrian and vehicular access, vertical transportation and surface and covered parking. Other big tenants include Marshalls, Michaels and Dollarama. The mall was built in 2012, after an existing strip mall housing a Zellers, which was also called Place Viau, was demolished.
Plaza Côte-des-Neiges
Plaza Côte-des-Neiges is a mid-size two stories indoor mall located in the
Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (, ) is a borough (''arrondissement'') of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The borough was created following the 2002 municipal reorganization of Montreal. It comprises two main neighbourhoods, Côte-des-Neiges a ...
borough
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History
In the Middle Ag ...
of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by Gestion Plaza Côte-des-Neiges. The Plaza has space for over 100 stores. They include a medical clinic, a dental clinic, daycare centre, a
movie theatre
A movie theater (American English), cinema (British English), or cinema hall (Indian English), also known as a movie house, picture house, the movies, the pictures, picture theater, the silver screen, the big screen, or simply theater is a ...
, restaurants and many small independent businesses. The plaza was officially opened on October 3, 1968, with 68 stores anchored by
Miracle Mart
Miracle Mart was a chain of discount department stores with locations in Ontario and Quebec, Canada based in Saint-Laurent, Quebec. The chain was renamed to simply M in the mid-1980s.
History
The company was founded in early 1961 as Miracle Mart ...
, Steinberg's and Wise.
In October 1985, Plaza Côtes-des-Neige announced an expansion to add 46 more stores and a Canadian Tire. The mall owner had to reacquire the lease of Miracle Mart in order to find the necessary space for the expansion. Miracle Mart left in June 1985.
Zellers opened a new store at Plaza Côtes-des-Neiges on August 10, 1991. A Cineplex Odeon opened the same month on August 29, 1991. 20 years later, Walmart Canada acquired the lease from Zellers to open its own store in October 2012. Like Canadian Tire, Dollarama, Marché Fu Tai or any other store at Plaza Côtes-des-Neiges, Walmart has no outdoor entrance and can only accessed from inside the mall.
Van Horne
Centre commercial Van Horne is a
strip mall
A strip mall, strip center or strip plaza is a type of shopping center common in North America where the stores are arranged in a row, with a sidewalk in front. Strip malls are typically developed as a unit and have large parking lots in front. ...
located
Côte-des-Neiges
Côte-des-Neiges (, ) is a neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at the geographic centre of the Island of Montreal on the western slope of Mount Royal and is part of the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
Côt ...
borough located next to the Plamondon metro station. The shopping centre was built by Steinberg in 1955. Due to its small size, it never transitonned into an indoor shopping centre as did most Ivanhoe strip malls in the 1960s and 1970s such as
Dorval Gardens
This is a list of small shopping centres in the island of Montreal.
Baie d'Urfé
Plaza Baie d'Urfé
Plaza Baie d'Urfé is a small strip mall located in Baie d'Urfé, Quebec, Canada on 90 Morgan Street across from Quebec Autoroute 20. The shopp ...
,
Wilderton
This is a list of small shopping centres (mostly neighbourhood shopping centres) in the island of Montreal.
*A neighbourhood shopping centre is an industry term in North America for a shopping centre with of gross leasable area, typically ancho ...
,
Place Sainte-Foy
Place Sainte-Foy is an upscale shopping mall located in the former city of Sainte-Foy, Quebec City, Sainte-Foy of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. It is owned by Ivanhoé Cambridge.
The Anchor store, anchors are La Maison Simons, Simons, Signature M ...
or St-Martin in
Laval
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People
* House of Laval, a French noble family originating from the town of Laval, Mayenne
* Laval (surname)
Places Belgium
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. Despite its size and generic layout, it is considered a strong shopping centre even today. It was home to a popular Jewish
delicatessen
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Brown Derby that has since been replaced by the equally busy
Tim Hortons
Tim Hortons Inc., commonly nicknamed Tim's, or Timmie's is a Canadian multinational coffeehouse and restaurant chain. Based in Toronto, Tim Hortons serves coffee, doughnuts, and other fast-food items. It is Canada's largest quick-service rest ...
. Steinberg rebranded as
IGA Iga may refer to:
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in 1992.
It was sold in 2002 to
First Capital Realty
First Capital REIT is a Canadian public real estate company, specializing in retail real estate, and based in Toronto, Ontario. It is one of the largest retail landlords in Canada.
History
First Capital was founded in 1994 as Centrefund Realt ...
by
Ivanhoé Cambridge
Ivanhoé Cambridge Inc. is a Canadian real estate company based in Montreal, Quebec. With assets around the globe, its areas of activity are investment, development, asset management, operations and leasing. The company's real estate portfolio c ...
.
Village Champlain
Village Champlain is located in the borough of
Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve is a Montreal borough, borough of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada located in the southeastern end of the island.
History
''See Mercier, Montreal, Mercier and Hochelaga-Maisonneuve#History, Hochelaga-Maisonneuve ...
,
Montreal
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, at the corner of Sherbrooke Street East and Honoré-Beaugrand, adjacent to the
Honoré-Beaugrand station
Honoré-Beaugrand station is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and is the eastern terminus of the Green Line. I ...
. The centre is located in the eponymous Village Champlain neighborhood; a primarily residential area bordered by the streets
Sherbrooke
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, Liebert, Hochelaga and Boucherville.
The shopping centre opened to the public on September 15, 1953 though its formal inauguration occurred on September 22. Anchor stores upon inauguration were Steinberg and Woolworth for a total of 18 tenants sprawled over 150,000 square feet. Although a generic strip mall with fewer than 20 tenants, Village Champlain is notable for being one of the oldest shopping centres in Montreal, second only to Norgate. Its inauguration ceremony had been attended by high-profile business and political figures including Montreal mayor
Camillien Houde
Camillien Houde (August 13, 1889 – September 11, 1958) was a Quebec politician, a Member of Parliament, and a four-time mayor of Montreal – one of the few Canadian politicians to have served at all three levels of government.
Political c ...
and MP
Marcel Monette
Marcel Monette (28 January 1895 – 17 January 1966) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Saint-Édouard-de-Napierville, Quebec and became a baker by career.
He was first elected at the Mercier ridi ...
, and the shopping centre could serve a population of up to 22,000 families at its opening and 500 cars on its parking lot. Today it includes well-known contemporary tenants like Jean Coutu,
St-Hubert
St-Hubert BBQ Ltd is a chain of Canadian casual dining restaurants best known for its rotisserie chicken. St-Hubert is most popular in Quebec, and in other French-Canadian areas such as Eastern Ontario and New Brunswick. St-Hubert is the 16t ...
,
Subway
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* Subway, a term for underground rapid transit rail systems
* Subway (underpass), a type of walkway that passes underneath an obstacle
* Subway (George Bush Interconti ...
M&M Food Market
M&M Food Market (french: link=no, Les aliments M&M), formerly known as M&M Meat Shops, is a Canadian frozen food retail chain. The company is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, and has locations in all ten provinces, the Yukon and the Northwes ...
,
Bulk Barn
Bulk Barn is a Canadian bulk foods store founded in September 1982 by Carl O'Field. The store sells common to somewhat specialty foods, such as those that are vegan and non genetically modified. Though the store cannot be considered zero waste
...
and a
Toronto Dominion Bank
Toronto-Dominion Bank (french: links=no, Banque Toronto-Dominion), doing business as TD Bank Group (french: links=no, Groupe Banque TD), is a Canadian multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. ...
that has been there since 1953 (when it was still
The Dominion Bank
The Dominion Bank was a Canadian bank that was chartered in 1869 and based in Toronto, Ontario. On February 1, 1955, it merged with the Bank of Toronto to form the Toronto-Dominion Bank, which is known as the present-day TD Bank Group.
History
...
). The former spaces of Steinberg and Woolworth are now occupied respectively by a Dollar Max variety store and Bulk Barn.
Village Montpellier
Village Montpellier, also known as Centre commercial Place Montpellier is located at 740 Côte-Vertu Ouest boulevard. It is a small neighborhood indoor mall located in the
Ville Saint-Laurent
Saint-Laurent () is a borough of the city of Montreal, Canada, located in the northern part of the island. Although it is no longer an independent city, it is still commonly known as Ville Saint-Laurent (''City of Saint-Laurent'') or by its initi ...
borough. The biggest tenants are a Metro Plus super market and Jean Coutu pharmacy. It is currently managed by Développement Métro. There are talks of redeveloping the mall into a mixed-use project.
Wilderton
Centre commercial Wilderton is a small indoor mall in the
Côte-des-Neiges
Côte-des-Neiges (, ) is a neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at the geographic centre of the Island of Montreal on the western slope of Mount Royal and is part of the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
Côt ...
borough and bordering
Outremont
Outremont is an affluent residential borough (''arrondissement'') of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It consists entirely of the former city on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec. The neighbourhood is inhabited largely by franc ...
. It is located on Van Horne Avenue between Wilderton and Darlington Avenues. Its anchors are
Metro
Metro, short for metropolitan, may refer to:
Geography
* Metro (city), a city in Indonesia
* A metropolitan area, the populated region including and surrounding an urban center
Public transport
* Rapid transit, a passenger railway in an urba ...
, Dollarama and Pharmaprix.
The shopping centre was built by
Steinberg
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in 1959 through
Ivanhoe
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.Its original anchors were Steinberg and Woolworth. In 1970, Wilderton was converted from a strip mall to an indoor one. Steinberg rebranded as Metro in 1992. The mall was acquired by First Capital Realty in 2002.
Redevelopment
In 2016, First Capital announced plans to demolish the property and redeveloped it into a mixed-use residential and commercial project. The new complex will continue with the Wilderton namesake.
The western portion of the mall, which housed the Metro grocery store and the Royal Bank, was demolished circa 2019. As part of the first phase of Wilderton's transformation, a brand new building was built on the mall's parking for the Royal Bank,
Tim Hortons
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and several other tenants. Another two-story building is currently under construction for Metro, Pharmaprix, SAQ, and residences for seniors.
As of 2021, the eastern part of the old shopping mall is still standing with all of its tenants.
Pointe-Claire
Centre Terrarium
Centre Terrarium (formerly Terrarium Pointe-Claire until 1997) is as
strip mall
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with two sectors located in
Pointe-Claire
Pointe-Claire (, ) is a Quebec local municipality within the Urban agglomeration of Montreal on the Island of Montreal in Canada. It is entirely developed, and land use includes residential, light manufacturing, and retail. As of the 2021 ce ...
, Quebec. Popular stores include
Walmart
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,
The Home Depot
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,
Domino's Pizza
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Tim Hortons
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,
Pier 1 Imports
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Subway
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* Subway (George Bush Interconti ...
. It also houses a free-standing
TD Canada Trust
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.
The mall began in the 1970s with a
Kmart
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The company was inc ...
, a CIBC and a
Dominion
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supermarket (which pulled out of the mall in 1983 even though the space had remained empty until
Famous Players
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moved to that space). It was Pointe Claire's third-largest indoor shopping mall behind
Fairview Pointe-Claire
Fairview Pointe-Claire (corporately styled as "CF Fairview Pointe-Claire") is the largest shopping mall in the West Island and one of the biggest on the Island of Montreal. It is located in the city of Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada, at the interse ...
and
Plaza Pointe-Claire
This is a list of small shopping centres in the island of Montreal.
Baie d'Urfé
Plaza Baie d'Urfé
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until the indoor space was converted to sports stores in 2005.
In October 1983, Kmart announced that it would close all of its stores in the Montreal area for January 28, 1984 including Ponte-Claire's. In April 1984, it was reported that a Zellers department store would "open shortly in a location vacated by a competitor in the Montreal suburb of Pointe Claire". The opened Zellers happened on October 31, 1984. It was the first Zellers store to sell fur coats. In August 2000, the store was enlarged from 66,000 square feet to 110,000 square feet.
When it was an indoor shopping mall, most stores, such as
Domino's Pizza
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and
CIBC
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were moved to Complexe Pointe-Claire) or other nearby locations. Other tenants such as Famous Players, L'Ile du Dollar, Coiffure Maxicolor and Talons were closed in the indoor mall. Around 2010, Bernard Trottier Sports closed down, and Dollarama took its vacant space the following year. The Zellers store closed in 2013 and
Target
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took over its space. The Target store closed in 2015, and Walmart took over its space in 2016.
Complexe Pointe-Claire
Complexe Pointe Claire is one of the
West Island
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's largest strip malls, located in
Pointe-Claire
Pointe-Claire (, ) is a Quebec local municipality within the Urban agglomeration of Montreal on the Island of Montreal in Canada. It is entirely developed, and land use includes residential, light manufacturing, and retail. As of the 2021 ce ...
, Quebec, Canada, on Saint-Jean Boulevard at the
Quebec Autoroute 40
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. Owned by Westcliff, the major anchors of this mall are Maxi & Cie,
Marshalls
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,
Chapters
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Books
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* Chapter book, a story book intended for intermediate readers, generally age 7–10
* Chapters (bookstore), Canadian big box bookstore ...
and
Toys "R" Us
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. Restaurants are
Subway
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Transportation
* Subway, a term for underground rapid transit rail systems
* Subway (underpass), a type of walkway that passes underneath an obstacle
* Subway (George Bush Interconti ...
, , Sushi Shop and Le Chocolat Belge, as well as a McKibbins pub to name a few.
The mall opened in 1987 with Maxi, Litrerie Etc. and
Toys "R" Us
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as anchors. Toys "R" Us actually opened before the shopping centre in October 1986.
A six-screen
Cineplex Odeon
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The company was formed in 2003 via the acquisition of Loews Cineplex's Canadian operations (which included t ...
theatre opened in 1988. By 1995, Litrerie Etc. and
Consumers Distributing
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were both closed.
Future Shop
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and Globo Shoes shortly took over the former spots. The following year,
Red Lobster
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(which withdrew from Quebec at the time) and the
National Bank of Canada
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were closed; the latter would reappear during the time when Maxi & Cie replaced Maxi in 1997. The Nature Pet Centre was relocated to Red Lobster's old location; welcoming the old Nature Pet Centre site to house the current Chapters. A Dic Ann's restaurant operated within the mall, but closed down in 1999. The former Dic Ann's space is now
Reitmans
Reitmans Canada Ltd. is a Canadian retailing company, specializing in women's clothing. The company operates several store brands, includinReitmans CIBC
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and the Nature Pet Centre replaced the old Cineplex Odeon site (which closed in 2001); causing closure of the National Bank inside the Maxi & Cie store and the current Nature Pet Centre entrance was where it housed Dollar ou Deux. The old Nature Pet Centre location became a J. Schreters store, which also in turn, closed.
Today,
Addition Elle
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is located at the former Red Lobster site. Cohoes went bankrupt in 2005, and that store had been there since the mall's inception. A McKibbins takes the former Cohoes space.
Best Buy
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closed the Future Shop in 2015. It was replaced by Marshalls in 2017.
Plaza Pointe-Claire
Plaza Pointe-Claire is an indoor
shopping centre
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The first known collec ...
in
Pointe-Claire
Pointe-Claire (, ) is a Quebec local municipality within the Urban agglomeration of Montreal on the Island of Montreal in Canada. It is entirely developed, and land use includes residential, light manufacturing, and retail. As of the 2021 ce ...
,
Quebec
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(a suburb of
Montreal
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). It is located on 269 St. Jean Boulevard near Autoroute 20. The mall was originally known as the Pointe-Claire shopping centre. Its first anchor store, Steinberg super market opened its doors on September 19, 1957. After the rest of the mall was completed, the inauguration was held on October 16, 1958, making it the first shopping centre in Pointe-Claire.
Tenant stores include
Metro
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* Rapid transit, a passenger railway in an urba ...
,
Uniprix
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,
TD Canada Trust
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Swiss Vienna Patisserie
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*Swiss people
Places
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*Swiss, Wisconsin
Other uses
*Swiss-system tournament, in various games and sports
*Swiss International ...
. Most stores are independently operated. Its original tenants were Steinberg's and Woolworth.
See also
*
List of shopping malls in Montreal
The following is a list of shopping centers in the Greater Montreal, region of Montreal.
Island of Montreal - City of Montreal
* Ville-Marie, Montreal
** 1000 de La Gauchetière, Le 1000 de la Gauchetière
** 2020 University
** Carrefour Indust ...
*
List of shopping malls in Greater Longueuil
This is a list of shopping centres in the Urban agglomeration of Longueuil, in the Montérégie region of Quebec.
Boucherville Carrefour de la Rive-Sud
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*
List of largest shopping malls in Canada
Greater than 70,000 m2
The following is a list of Canada's largest enclosed shopping malls, by reported total retail floor space, or gross leasable area (GLA) with and over. In cases where malls have equal areas, they are further ranked by the n ...