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Galeries d'Anjou
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LocationMontreal, Quebec, Canada
Address7999, boulevard Galeries d'Anjou
Opening dateAugust 8, 1968
DeveloperCemp Investments (planner)
Ain & Zakuta Ltd (builder) [1]
ManagementIvanhoé Cambridge
OwnerIvanhoé Cambridge
No. of stores and services160[2]
No. of anchor tenants6
Total retail floor area1,114,000 sq ft (103,500 m2).
No. of floors1
Parking6000 [3]
Public transit access STM Bus 44, 95, 141 and 460
Websitelesgaleriesdanjou.ca

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. Galeries d'Anjou has the sole location of Saks Off 5th in the Greater Montreal area.[4] Formerly a shopping mall managed by Cadillac Fairview, it is now wholly-owned and operated by Ivanhoé Cambridge.

In addition to the main indoor shopping centre, Galeries d'Anjou has several stores around its parking lot including Best Buy and Rona l'Entrepôt. It constitutes, along with Place Versailles, the super-regional malls in eastern Montreal. Galeries d'Anjou is currently over 1,100,000 square feet (100,000 m2) and was by far the largest shopping mall on the Island of Montreal throughout the 1970s and much of the 1980s.

History

In 1967, the part of Radisson Street in Anjou was renamed Galeries d'Anjou Boulevard in honor of the upcoming shopping mall.

Galeries d'Anjou opened in 1968 with 85 stores.[5] Its original anchors were the department stores Simpsons and Eaton's, and the supermarkets Steinberg's and Dominion.[5] Simpsons and Eaton's were located at the extremities of the mall, with store dimensions of 180,000 and 150,000 square feet respectively.[5] Simpsons always had three levels but only its first and second floors were used to sell merchandise (its basement was at the time reserved for store services and an employees' cafeteria).[6] Steinberg's and Dominion faced each another in the middle of the mall and were separated from one another by a corridor.[5] As a whole, Galeries d'Anjou was 800,000 square feet during its inauguration and was built on the site of a former golf course.[7] At the time, the mall was the joint property of Simpsons Limited and Cemp Investments, and managed by Fairview Corporation.[5] Upon its opening, Galeries d'Anjou was the second largest shopping mall in Canada after Yorkdale in Toronto.[8]

In 1975, Simpsons and Cadillac Fairview announced the expansion of Galeries d'Anjou to bring the total size of the shopping centre from 750,000 to 1.1 million square feet.[9] As a result, 65 new stores opened on March 25, 1976 in a new mall wing.[10] This new section was anchored a few months later by Sears which inaugurated in August 1976.[11][12]

In 1987, Galeries d'Anjou had approximately 170 tenants and was anchored by Simpsons, Eaton's, Sears, Steinberg's and Provigo.[13][14] Simpsons rebranded as The Bay in March 1989 and Provigo closed outright the same year.[15][16]

Steinberg's outlived its rival Provigo by three years in the mall until the chain's demise in 1992.[17][18] Coincidentally, Steinberg's was rebranded as Provigo for a brief time in 1992 before being converted into a Maxi supermarket later in the year.[19][20] The space of the original and unrelated Provigo (formerly Dominion) that closed in 1989 was revitalized into a food court, also in 1992.

Galeries d'Anjou's anchors in 1993 were The Bay, Eaton's, Sears and Maxi.[21]

After Eaton's declared bankruptcy in 1999, Hudson's Bay Company acquired the lease of its first floor at Galeries d'Anjou for a new Zellers store that opened in Spring 2000.[22][23] The second floor of Eaton's was taken over by The Brick four years later on April 15, 2004.[24][25]

In 2002, Maxi closed to make room for an enlarged Sports Experts and new Atmosphere opened on September 3, 2003.[26]

In August 2013, Galeries d'Anjou introduced a new section of 150,000 square feet featuring Simons and some 15 other retailers.[27][28] Simons itself was built on the mall's parking lot, while the small tenants took the site of the old food court (previously Dominion/Provigo) that was demolished to accommodate the expansion.[29][30] Simons inaugurated on August 15, 2013 and was the chain's first store with a restaurant in it.[31] The food court was relocated on the other side of the shopping centre near Zellers and replaced a former Old Navy store whose lease wasn't renewed in 2011 due to a lack of retail space at the time in the mall.[32][3]

Target acquired the lease of Zellers at Galeries d'Anjou, allowing it to open its own store on October 18, 2013.[33] After Target closed all its stores in Canada in April 2015, its space at Galeries d'Anjou was left vacant for two years. Winners, Saks Off 5th and a returning Old Navy opened in 2017 in the former Target location.[32] In spite of these major arrivals, a small space of the former Target store was still unoccupied.[34] It has since been filled by a Cacao 70 chocolatier shop and a Copper Branch restaurant, both of which are accessible only from outside.[35] Moreover, a Dollarama opened up on the second floor and appears to have taken the space of a downsizing The Brick.[36][29]

The Sears at Galeries d'Anjou was among the stores that closed during the chain's final day in Canada on January 14, 2018.[37] As of 2021 the former store remains vacant though it is seen as a possible site for the new terminus of the Montreal Metro Blue Line.[38]

In May 2021, Ivanhoé Cambridge became the sole owner of the mall by acquiring Cadillac Fairview's share of Galeries d'Anjou in exchange for Ivanhoé Cambridge's share of Fairview Pointe-Claire.[38] Prior to this, the two shopping centres were co-owned in equal proportions by Cadillac Fairview and Ivanhoé Cambridge, with Cadillac Fairview serving as manager of both malls.[39]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Services municipaux autorisés pour le Centre commercial régional d'Anjou". La Presse. Montreal. 3 May 1967. p. 3. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  2. ^ https://galeriesdanjou.com/en/galeries-danjou/
  3. ^ a b "Galeries d'Anjou: Simons s'en vient et Old Navy s'en va". La Presse. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
  4. ^ "En difficulté, Saks OFF 5TH n'ira pas au Centre Eaton". La Presse. November 10, 2018.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Les Galeries d'Anjou above all a place for people". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. 8 August 1968. p. 18.
  6. ^ "Simpsons boasts expanded service, innovations". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. 8 August 1968. p. 23.
  7. ^ "$16,000,000 pour construire les Galeries sur l'emplacement de l'ancien terrain de golf" (PDF). Photo Journal. Montreal. 14 August 1968. p. 23. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  8. ^ "Montreal boom comes to halt as projects move to suburbs". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. 15 February 1968. p. B2.
  9. ^ "$8 millions pour agrandir les Galeries d'Anjou". La Presse. Montreal. 12 March 1975. p. C2. Retrieved 2017-10-14.
  10. ^ "Les Galeries d'Anjou". La Presse. Montreal. 24 March 1976. p. H2.
  11. ^ Sears Canada. "Sears History (1973-1977)". Sears Canada. Archived from the original on 2013-01-19. Retrieved 2017-10-11.
  12. ^ "Simpson advertising page". La Presse. Montreal. 18 August 1976. p. A21.
  13. ^ "NOEL VRAIMENT VOUS". La Presse. Montreal. 4 November 1987. p. A18. Retrieved 2017-10-12.
  14. ^ ""La féerie de Noël" promo". L'Artisan. Repentigny. 4 December 1987. p. 19. Retrieved 2017-10-14.
  15. ^ "The Bay advertisement page". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. 11 March 1989. p. 24.
  16. ^ "Galeries d'Anjou stores list". 1990-1991 Montreal phone book. Bell Canada. 1989-12-01. p. 802.
  17. ^ "Galeries d'Anjou stores list". 1991-1992 Montreal phone book. Bell Canada. 1991-12-01. p. 803.
  18. ^ "Les bannières Steinberg tombent jour après jour". La Presse. Montreal. 11 July 1992. p. A19.
  19. ^ "Provigo stores location". 1992-1993 Montreal phone book. Bell Canada. p. 1663.
  20. ^ "Galeries d'Anjou stores list". 1992-1993 Montreal phone book. Bell Canada. p. 810.
  21. ^ "CADILLAC FAIRVIEW à Anjou". La Presse. Montreal. 10 May 1993. p. D10. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
  22. ^ "La Baie achète des magasins d'Eaton". Le Devoir. Montreal. 30 November 1999. p. B4. Retrieved 2017-10-31.
  23. ^ "Une fin d'année lucrative à la Baie d'Hudson". La Presse. Montreal. 10 March 2000. p. C2. Retrieved 2017-10-31.
  24. ^ "Brick Warehouse s'implante au Québec". La Presse. Montreal. 2 April 2004. p. C8. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
  25. ^ "Deux autres magasins de meubles à Laval". La Presse. Montreal. 29 March 2004. p. LP3. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  26. ^ "Déluges d'ouvertures d'Atmosphère". La Presse. Montreal. 9 February 2003. p. D53. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  27. ^ "Galeries d'Anjou celebrates makeover milestone Phases I and II of $86-million transformation now complete Phase III underway". Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec | CDPQ | Long-term institutional investor | Asset manager. March 27, 2017.
  28. ^ . January 16, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150116185737/http://www.lesgaleriesdanjou.ca/SiteCollectionDocuments/R%C3%A9pertoire_ANJ.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 16, 2015. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  29. ^ a b https://web.archive.org/web/20140211181327/http://www.lesgaleriesdanjou.ca/SiteCollectionDocuments/Rep.%20Avril%202013.pdf
  30. ^ . October 8, 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20081008185408/http://www.galeriesdanjou.ca/rtecontent/document/Repertoire.PDF. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 8, 2008. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  31. ^ "Simons ouvre (enfin) à Anjou". La Presse. August 14, 2013.
  32. ^ a b "De Nouvelles chaînes s'installeront aux galeries d'Anjou". Retrieved October 24, 2012.
  33. ^ ICI.Radio-Canada.ca, Zone Économie-. "De premiers Target au Québec". Radio-Canada.ca.
  34. ^ https://retail-insider.com/retail-insider/2017/06/galeries-danjou/
  35. ^ "Google Street View (Cacao 70/Copper Branch)".
  36. ^ https://galeriesdanjou.com/en/map/#/
  37. ^ "Final Sears stores close Sunday, marking the end of an era | The Star". thestar.com.
  38. ^ a b https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2021/05/22/la-caisse-et-fairview-font-un-echange-de-245m
  39. ^ https://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/2021-04-29/centres-commerciaux/partie-de-monopoly-entre-geants-de-l-immobilier.php

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