Carrefour Laval

Carrefour Laval
Location 3035 Le Carrefour
Laval, Quebec
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 (branded "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 also Quebec's largest mall operating on one floor.[1]

Carrefour Laval is one of the four fashion centres in the Montreal area that also include Fairview Pointe-Claire, Les Promenades Saint-Bruno and Les Galeries d'Anjou.

Stores

Logo used until September 21, 2015

The mall has 354 stores, boutiques and restaurants. It has four anchor stores; they are: the 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 first 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

A shish taouk platter from Zouki's at the Carrefour Laval food court, served in the mall's custom-made dinnerware.

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

References

  1. 1 2 Le Carrefour Laval. Quoted: 22 July 2015.
  2. "CARREFOUR LAVAL REINVENTS THE SHOPPING CENTER FOOD EXPERIENCE WITH ITS NEW DINING TERRACE" 4 November 2009
  3. "Super shopping centre planned". The Gazette (Montreal). 28 February 1969. p. 1. Retrieved 2010-07-19.
  4. 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.
  5. "Morgan's plans to build 110,000 square foot store". The Gazette (Montreal). 25 May 1971. p. 34. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
  6. 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.
  7. 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 / 45.57; -73.751

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