Place d'Orléans

For the bus transit terminal adjacent to this mall, see Place d'Orléans Station.
Place d'Orléans
Location 110 Place d'Orléans Drive
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
K1C 2L9
Opening date 1979
Management Primaris Retail REIT
Owner Primaris Retail REIT
No. of stores and services 175
No. of anchor tenants 3
Total retail floor area 734,477 sq ft or 68,235.1 m2
Website http://www.placedorleans.com

Place d'Orléans is a large shopping mall in the eastern end of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in the community of Orléans. The property is about 740,000 sq ft (69,000 m2).[1] It has two large department stores (Sport Chek and Hudson's Bay) and about 175 small shops, including a food court. The Bay expanded in 1999, taking over a large section of the north side's upper level, and reducing the number of smaller shops. Other prominent shops included the Market Fresh grocery store (the company pulled out of Ontario, due to declining profits, on December 30, 2005, now Boathouse and Goodlife Fitness fill the vacated space), and, once the focus of the mall, Walmart. In early May 2006, Zellers opened a new store in the large retail space vacated by Walmart. In 2013, Zellers closed and was replaced by Target, but closed in 2015.

Built in 1979, but having expanded to its current size in 1990 and had its grand re-opening in August of same year. Place d'Orléans was one of the last enclosed malls built in Canada. Like many of its counterparts in North America, Place d'Orléans has been struggling to survive in the era of the big-box "power centres". Over the years it has seen anchors come and go, such as Eaton's, Woolco, Robinson's, Consumers Distributing and Walmart, which was replaced by Zellers. Place d'Orléans has taken on non-traditional tenants: a large portion of the second floor has been leased to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). However, RCMP is moving out of Place d'Orléans in 2015. The move is occurring in stages between July–September. No tenant is known at this time to be taking over their space in the mall. Walmart has relocated to the newly developed shopping area along Innes Road, and St. Joseph Boulevard has continued to stagnate.

Anchors and majors

Former anchors

References

  1. ↑ Oxford Properties
  2. ↑ Ladurantaye, Steven (October 9, 1999). "Eaton's closes as liquidation winds down". Ottawa Business Journal. Retrieved June 3, 2015.

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Coordinates: 45°28′40″N 75°30′59″W / 45.47778°N 75.51639°W / 45.47778; -75.51639

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