Promenades St-Bruno (corporately known as CF Promenades St-Bruno) is a two-level
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 ...
located in
Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville
Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada, on the south bank of the Saint Lawrence River just east of Montreal. It lies on the west flank of Mont Saint-Bruno, one of the Monteregian Hills. Th ...
,
Quebec
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, Canada. Ground was broken in the spring of 1977 to build the mall and it was completed in August 1978. Les Promenades St-Bruno is the largest mall in the
Montérégie
Montérégie () is an administrative region in the southwest part of Quebec. It includes the cities of Boucherville, Brossard, Châteauguay, Longueuil, Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield and Vaudreuil-Dorion.
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and part of its consumer base come from cities as far as
Saint-Hyacinthe
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and
Sorel-Tracy
Sorel-Tracy (; ) is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada and the geographical end point of the Champlain Valley. It is located at the confluence of the Richelieu River and the St. Lawrence River, on the western edge of Lac Saint-Pierre, downstre ...
. The anchor tenants are
The Bay and
Simons Simons is a surname of Scandinavian origins and a variant of Sigmundsson, a patronymic surname with roots in proto-Germanic ''*segaz'' and ''*mundō'', giving a rough translation of "protection through victory".
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.
The Bay is the only one left among the five initial anchors, although it moved into the space that was vacated by
Simpsons
''The Simpsons'' is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, a ...
in 1989, with its original location being converted into a mall expansion in 1991. Aside from The Bay, the 1978 anchors were Simpsons,
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
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 ...
.
History
A
Steinberg's supermarket was there between 1978 and 1992, around . Steinberg's, through
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 ...
, had owned 25% of the mall and also operated a
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 ...
store side by side to the supermarket. The latter was renamed to M in August 1986. Both businesses closed in 1992. It was announced that
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 ...
would open by November 1993 in the space formerly used by Steinberg's and the M store. Zellers left the mall in 2012 and American giant retailer
Target
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** Aiming point, in field artillery, fi ...
occupied its space from 2013 to 2015. After five years of unoccupancy, the former Target location got transformed into a 130,000 square foot
public market named "CF Marché des Promenades" consisting of 40 tenants including a grocery store of 35,000 square feet.
Hudson's Bay Company
The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; french: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, HBC now owns and operates retail stores in Canada. The company's namesake business div ...
closed its Simpsons location at Promenades St-Bruno in early 1989. The existing The Bay store relocated in Simpsons' vacant space on June 22, 1989. The Bay's original location stayed vacant for over a year. A new mall wing was created with 57 shops which opened during the spring of 1991 anchored by a
Sears
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store that inaugurated on April 3.
This increased the size of the mall to nearly . Sears closed on January 14, 2018. The space that Sears occupied was dismantled to welcome a relocating Sports Experts,
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 ...
and Imaginaire.
On May 1, 2019, Sports Expers/Atmosphere left its previous location above Simons to relocate on the second floor of the former Sears store.
Winners opened on September 10, 2019, in the first floor of Sears.
Imaginaire, a retail chain from
Quebec City
Quebec City ( or ; french: Ville de Québec), officially Québec (), is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the Communauté métrop ...
, opened its first Greater Montreal location during the fall of 2019, using 15,000 square feet of the former Sears.
During the 1990s,
big box stores
A big-box store (also hyperstore, supercenter, superstore, or megastore) is a physically large retail establishment, usually part of a chain of stores. The term sometimes also refers, by extension, to the company that operates the store. The t ...
arrived around the mall, which continued well into the 2000s. While some of these stores (e.g.,
Best Buy
Best Buy Co. Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota. Originally founded by Richard M. Schulze and James Wheeler in 1966 as an audio specialty store called Sound of Music, it was rebra ...
,
Old Navy
Old Navy is an American clothing and accessories retailing company owned by multinational corporation Gap Inc. It has corporate operations in the Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The largest of the Old Navy stores are its ...
) are tenants of Promenades St-Bruno, the majority of them have no relation to the mall.
Simons picked the first floor of former
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 ...
in 2001.
Sport Experts/Atmosphere and five boutiques took over the second floor of Eaton's. Simons doubled its size in 2021 by expanding on the second floor formerly occupied by Sports Experts.
The exterior of Simons at Promenades Saint-Bruno has always been two-story high ever since the store's inception in 2001 and as such it was believed that the facade would stay the same after the expansion.
In reality, a large portion of the facade went from beige to black when the store added its second floor although the middle of the storefront, which includes the Simon's name, remained intact.
The original major tenants were
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 ...
(130,000 sq ft),
Simpsons
''The Simpsons'' is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, a ...
(135,000 sq ft),
The Bay (125,000 sq ft),
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 ...
, (130,000 sq ft) and
Steinberg's (50,000 sq ft).
Les Promenades St-Bruno was the first shopping centre in Canada to house at the same time the three upscale department stores: Simpsons, The Bay and Eaton's.
At 900,000 square feet upon inauguration, it was the second largest mall among all of Cadillac Fairview's properties across the country in 1978, surpassed at the time only by fellow Quebec shopping centre
Galeries d'Anjou
Galeries d'Anjou (formerly "CF Galeries d'Anjou") is a shopping mall located in the borough of Anjou in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Major tenants include Hudson's Bay, Simons, The Brick, Saks Off 5th, Winners and Sports Experts/Atmosphere. In add ...
.
Concomitantly, Les Promenades Saint-Bruno was the second largest mall among all shopping centres in the Montreal area. Although now wholly owned by Cadillac Fairview, Les Promenades Saint-Bruno was originally the joint property at 51% of the aforementioned company, 24.5% of
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 ...
and 24.5% of
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 ...
.
The mall was developed by Cadillac Fairview at $45 million and opened on August 23, 1978, with 170 stores.
Its history dates back to 1968 when Steinberg's Ivanhoe Corporation purchased the 200 acres site at the corner of
Autoroute 30 and
Route 116 in St-Bruno.
Eaton's became co-owner in the early 1970s and Fairview Corporation (a predecessor of Cadillac Fairview) followed suit in 1973.
A deadly
mid-air collision
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occurred above the Promenades St-Bruno on March 17, 2017, with the wreckage of one of the planes landing on the roof of the mall and the other on its parking lot.
See also
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List of largest enclosed 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 ...
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List of malls in Montreal
The following is a list of shopping centers in the region of Montreal.
Island of Montreal - City of Montreal
* Ville-Marie, Montreal
** Le 1000 de la Gauchetière
** 2020 University
** Carrefour Industrielle Alliance (formerly Simpsons (depar ...
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List of shopping malls in Canada
This article is a list of notable shopping malls in Canada by province.
Canada's first indoor mall was the Lister Block, originally opened in 1852, in Hamilton, Ontario. The Lister Block was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1924. In 2011 the bui ...
Note
References
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