Fleur de Lys centre commercial (formerly and still commonly called Place Fleur de Lys) is a shopping mall located in the Vanier borough of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada built in 1963.[1] It is located across from L'Institut de réadaptation en déficience physique de Québec and close to the Videotron Centre. It is anchored by Walmart and Maxi.[1] The mall is access by Quebec Autoroute 973 and Quebec Route 138 via boulevard Wilfrid-Hamel.
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| Coordinates | 46°49′21″N 71°15′07″W / 46.8224°N 71.252°W |
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| Address | 552, boulevard Wilfrid-Hamel Quebec City, Quebec G1M 3E5 |
| Opening date | March 21, 1963 |
| Management | Trudel Immeubles |
| No. of stores and services | 150[1] |
| No. of anchor tenants | 2 |
| Total retail floor area | 857,571 square feet (79,671.0 m2)[1] |
| No. of floors | 1 |
| Parking | 4410 |
| Website | www |
History
editPlace Fleur de Lys opened on March 21, 1963, with anchors Simpsons-Sears (Sears), Steinberg and Zellers.[2] Place Fleurs de Lys is notable for having the first ever Sears department store in the province of Quebec.[3] This two level 140,000 square foot anchor space was the first French-speaking department store from the Toronto-based Simpsons-Sears Ltd.[4]
On October 17, 1968, S.S. Kresge Co Ltée opened a Kmart store.[5] As with Sears five years earlier, the Kmart at Place Fleurs de Lys was the first in the province.[5]
In March 1980, Place Fleur de Lys expanded from 650 000 square feet to 850 000 to reach 170 stores including a new Pascal hardware store.[6] After Pascal closed, its former space of 75 000 square feet was converted into another mall expansion of 145 000 square feet anchored by a single level The Bay store which opened on October 7, 1992.[7]
Kmart closed on May 31, 1995, and the Zellers in the mall relocated in its space.[8] Target acquired the lease of Zellers and opened a store at Fleur de Lys on October 18, 2013, as part of the retailer's second wave of openings in Quebec.[9] On May 8, 2015, Walmart bought the lease of the former Target store.[10]
Primaris REIT completed its acquisition of Fleurs de Lys on July 20, 2005.[11] The mall was later managed by 20 VIC Management.[12] On August 15, 2017, Cushman & Wakefield announced it would acquire 20 VIC Management and the transaction was completed the following month in September, bringing Fleurs de Lys to its portfolio.[13][1]
Sears lasted until the end of the chain on January 14, 2018.[14]
In July 2018, the Fleurs de Lys shopping mall was purchased by Trudel Alliance from KingSett Capital for $60 million.[15] The acquisition happened in a time when the shopping mall had to deal with large vacant anchor spaces left by the departures of both Sears and Hudson's Bay.[16] The new owners have since began the process of redeveloping the mall.[15] The UQTR set up a campus for 6,000 students in the former Sears store.[17] Hart also opened a store within the former Sears building.[18] Hudson's Bay was replaced by Jysk, Dollarama and another local business.[19][20] An entire section of the mall was razed between the Sports Experts store and the former Sears building in 2021–2022.[21] Trudel has announced that it plans to build several residential towers on the site of the shopping mall, with one of the buildings already in construction as of 2023.[17]
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See also
editOther malls in Quebec City area:
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "Fleur de Lys". Cushman & Wakefield. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
- ^ "2 articles on the same page (Maintentant, quatre succursales au Québec) and (Révolution dans la garde-robe masculine)". Le Soleil. March 20, 1963. p. 58.
- ^ Sears Canada. "Sears History (1963-1967)". Sears Canada. Archived from the original on January 5, 2013. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
- ^ "Parle Francais At Quebec City Simpsons-Sears". Women's Wear Daily. New York. March 22, 1963. p. 30.
- ^ a b "Kmart ouvrira jeudi le 17 octobre à 9:30". Le Soleil. 16 October 1968. p. 72.
- ^ "Place Fleur de Lys agrandie". Le Soleil. 20 March 1980. p. A-13.
- ^ "La Baie à Place Fleur de Lys : 250 nouveaux emplois". Le Soleil. 29 September 1992. p. B-12.
- ^ "Kmart ferme ses deux magasins de Québec et celui d 'Arthabaska". Le Soleil. 3 March 1995. p. 72.
- ^ "TARGET 'Ours is a different culture; it's a different service model'". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. September 14, 2013. p. C6.
- ^ "Walmart buying 13 former Target Canada stores | The Star". thestar.com. 8 May 2015.
- ^ "Primaris Retail REIT Announces $75 Million Public Offering of Trust Units". CNNMatthews Newswire. Toronto. July 18, 2005. p. 20.
- ^ "20 VIC Management Inc". Archived from the original on 2013-09-28.
- ^ "Cushman & Wakefield completes acquisition of 20 VIC Management Inc".
- ^ Wright, Lisa (12 January 2018). "Final Sears stores close Sunday, marking the end of an era | The Star". thestar.com.
- ^ a b "Real Estate Forums". www.realestateforums.com.
- ^ Kucharsky, Danny (October 2, 2018). "Trudel Alliance: 20 years of growth in Quebec". renx.ca.
- ^ a b Kucharsky, Danny (June 29, 2023). "Trudel's Fleur de lys: Quebec's $1.5B 'city within a city'". renx.ca.
- ^ "Picture of the Hart store". Google Streetview.
- ^ "Picture of the Jysk store". Google Streetview.
- ^ "Pictures of package delivery sign within former The Bay store". Google Streetview.
- ^ "Pictures of the section demolished". Google Streetview.
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