Carrefour Laval
| Location |
3035 Le Carrefour Laval, Quebec H7T 1C8 |
|---|---|
| Opening date | March 28, 1974 |
| Developer | Fairview Corporation |
| Management | Cadillac Fairview |
| Owner | Cadillac Fairview |
| No. of stores and services | 300+ |
| No. of anchor tenants | 4 |
| Total retail floor area | 115,478 m2 or 1,242,990 sq ft (GLA) |
| No. of floors | 1 |
| Public transit access | Terminus Le Carrefour |
| Website | http://www.carrefourlaval.ca/ |
Carrefour Laval (corporately styled as "CF Carrefour Laval") is a super regional mall located in Laval, Quebec, Canada at the intersection of the Laurentian Highway (A-15) and Laval Freeway (A-440). At 115,478 m2 (1,242,990 sq ft), it is the largest enclosed mall in the Montreal area, and Quebec's largest mall operating on one floor.[1]
Carrefour Laval is one of the four fashion centres in the Montreal area. The others are Fairview Pointe-Claire, Les Promenades Saint-Bruno, and Les Galeries d'Anjou.
Stores
The mall has 354 stores, boutiques and restaurants. It has four anchor stores: Hudson's Bay, Sears, Simons and Rona.
Various other retailers are represented in the mall.
Since 1 November 2009, Carrefour Laval has required its food court tenants to use solid dinnerware and cutlery, which it provides, instead of the traditional foam food containers found in the vast majority of food courts.[2]
History
Planning for a new mall (1969-1973)
Construction of the mall was announced on 27 February 1969 by Steinberg's and Eaton's. The consortium announced that a 150-store mall would be built on a 20,000,000-square-foot (1,900,000 m2) property next to the Laurentian Highway, subject to the construction of the necessary infrastructure by the newly formed city of Laval.[3]
The project had been delayed after a zoning bylaw proposed by mayor Jacques Tétreault that would effectively have given the Carrefour Laval consortium a monopoly over the development of the proposed downtown core of Laval was challenged by the opposition and by members of his own party, who supported the construction of a second mall in the immediate vicinity by the Oshawa Group.[4] A zoning amendment proposed by opposition councillor Lucien Paiement (later mayor), which allowed the Oshawa Group to build its own mall was adopted. By then, Morgan's and Simpson's had joined the Carrefour Laval consortium.[4] However, Morgan's dropped out, preferring instead to anchor an expansion of the existing Centre Laval,[5] just 2.5 km (1.6 mi) away on the other side of Highway 15.
Timeline
- 1974: Carrefour Laval opens with major tenants Simpsons, Eaton's, Dupuis Frères, Pascal's and Beaucoup.[6] The L-shaped Carrefour Laval has 125 stores. Eaton's and Beaucoup anchor the ends of the mall and Simpsons is at the junction.
- 1978: Dupuis Frères closes. Wise arrives in the mall.
- 1981: Simpsons becomes "Simpson".
- 1983: The mall expands to the west with 100 new stores, a food court and a Sears department store.
- 1984: The Beaucoup concept is abandoned. Steinberg's and Miracle Mart now have their separate anchor spaces, although they remain side by side.
- 1986: Miracle Mart's name is shortened to "M". A standalone Cineplex Odeon arrives in the mall's parking lot.
- 1989: Simpsons store converted to the Bay.
- 1991: Pascal's closes.
- 1992: Steinberg's and M close.
- 1993: Work begins to convert the space that had been occupied by Steinberg's and M to accommodate what would have been the first Costco store in Canada, but this is halted when Costco and Price Club merge the same year, since there was already a Price Club store right across the highway.
- 1994: Rona opens up on what used to be the anchor spaces of Steinberg's and M the first "Rona L'entrepôt" hardware store.
- 1995: Wise closes.
- 1996: Les Ailes de la Mode and Staples become new tenants of Carrefour Laval; they occupy the space of the old Pascal's store.
- 1999: Eaton's closes
- 2000: Cadillac Fairview acquires full ownership of the mall. Until now it had been co-owned by Ivanhoe.
- 2001: Cineplex Odeon closes.
- 2002: Carrefour Laval expands with 78 new stores and anchor Simons. Part of this expansion took place on the former spots of the Eaton's store and the Cineplex Odeon movie theater which had both been demolished. The new section of the mall is characterized by its higher roof.
- 2008: A newer, expanded food court and redesign of the flooring and ceilings is underway and scheduled to be completed in two phases by 2009.[7] The food court offers now 1 200 seats.[1]
- 2011: Les Ailes de la Mode closes.
- 2012: Crate & Barrel opens, in part of Les Ailes de la Mode's past location. The rest is split between The Keg and P.F. Chang's. Also, Forever 21 opens, using the second floor of the former Dupuis store, which had remained vacant since the latter's closing.
- 2014: Staples closes.
Transit centre
An AMT bus terminal is located across boulevard le Carrefour from the Carrefour Laval. From it the STL offers frequent bus service to and from Montmorency metro station, the terminus of the orange line of the Montreal Metro.
See also
- Laval, Quebec
- List of largest enclosed shopping malls in Canada
- List of malls in Montreal
- List of shopping malls in Canada
References
- 1 2 Le Carrefour Laval. Quoted: 22 July 2015.
- ↑ "CARREFOUR LAVAL REINVENTS THE SHOPPING CENTER FOOD EXPERIENCE WITH ITS NEW DINING TERRACE" 4 November 2009
- ↑ "Super shopping centre planned". The Gazette. Montreal. 28 February 1969. p. 1. Retrieved 2010-07-19.
- 1 2 Pierre Richard (20 December 1971). "Une bataille entre 2 géants déchire le Conseil de Laval". Le Devoir (in French). Montreal. p. 1. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
- ↑ "Morgan's plans to build 110,000 square foot store". The Gazette. Montreal. 25 May 1971. p. 34. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
- ↑ Beaucoup Steinberg was a hypermarket that consisted of a Steinberg's supermarket, a Miracle Mart department store, a Le Quick restaurant and a Pik-Nik restaurant all under the same roof.
- ↑ Cadillac Fairview announces a $52M investment to revitalize Carrefour Laval and its food court
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Coordinates: 45°34′12″N 73°45′04″W / 45.57°N 73.751°W