Place Vertu is a shopping mall in the borough of Saint-Laurent in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located on Côte-Vertu Boulevard, at the corner of Cavendish Boulevard. The mall is about 830,000 square feet (77,109.5 m2) in size, and has a high-rise building.
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| Location | Montreal, Quebec |
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| Coordinates | 45°29′56″N 73°42′24″W / 45.498767°N 73.706631°W |
| Address | 3131, boulevard de la Côte-Vertu Saint-Laurent, Quebec H4R 1Y8 |
| Opening date | August 28, 1975 |
| Developer | Cambridge Leaseholds Limited |
| Management | Westcliff |
| Owner | LaSalle Investment Management |
| No. of stores and services | 155 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 |
| No. of floors | 1 (2 in Continental) (excluding highrise building) |
| Parking | Outdoor or multi-level |
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| Website | www |
Stores
editAnchors are Canadian Tire, Marché Adonis, Sports Experts/Atmosphere, Winners, Dollarama, and Uniprix. There is also a food court. The mall has many outlets.
History
editPlace Vertu's anchors on its debut on August 28, 1975 were The Bay, Kmart and Dominion for a total of 110 stores.[1] Although Sears was also among the original tenants that signed with Place Vertu, it opened its doors two months after the other stores on October 29.[2][3] At its opening, Place Vertu was larger than Fairview Pointe-Claire and it also briefly surpassed Galeries d'Anjou which was being expanded at the time.[4] The only shopping centre in the Montreal area that was larger than Place Vertu during that period was Carrefour Laval.[4]
The mall was expanded in the 1980s when a corridor was added, going from the center court to a new Pascal's hardware store. Another corridor with an office tower was added in the mid-1980s from The Bay to Pascal's.
Dominion was converted into a Provigo on July 13, 1981,[5] Pascal's former space occupied by Zellers in 1991, Provigo was converted once more into a Maxi in 1994 and Kmart's former store space was occupied by Canadian Tire in 2000. Maxi closed in 2001. The Bay closed in May 2007; Zellers relocated to The Bay's vacated location in the same year.[6]
Since 2008, the mall has been renovated and now include tenants such as Urban Planet, Dollarama, Laura/Laura+/Laura Petite Outlet, Browns Outlet, Starbucks Coffee (taking Subway's old space after that location moved to the food court). Marché Adonis took the space of Maxi in 2009. Additionally, the mall space between Zellers and the food court was turned into a Winners (which had moved from the strip mall across the street) and the existing tenants from this section were relocated elsewhere in the mall. Zellers old space (formerly Pascal's) remained empty, but was replaced by Gold's Gym in 2012.
After more than 20 years in the mall, Zellers closed in December 2012[7] and was succeeded the following year by Target,[8] but it was closed in 2015, and Sports Experts/Atmosphere relocated to that space in November 10, 2016, using only 53,000 square feet of the emplacement.[9]
Sears closed in October 2017 and is replaced by Continental/Joe Fresh.
Ownership
editPlace Vertu was originally the property of Cambridge Leaseholds with co-ownership by both Simpsons-Sears and the Hudson's Bay Company.[10] It was one of Cambridge's only shopping malls in the province of Quebec.[11]
In 2001, Cambridge merged with Ivanhoe to become Ivanhoe Cambridge;[12] Place Vertu became the property of this combined company.[6] Ten years later, in 2011, Ivanhoe Cambridge sold the mall to H&R REIT.[13]
Public transit
editSTM buses stop around the mall, while the Exo buses stop nearby at Côte-Vertu and Beaulac.
| Société de transport de Montréal | |||
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 121 Sauvé/Côte-Vertu
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 128 Saint-Laurent
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| 171 Henri-Bourassa
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| 174 Côte-Vertu Ouest
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| 177 Thimens
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| 196 Parc-Industriel-Lachine
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| 213 Parc-Industriel-Saint-Laurent
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| 225 Hymus
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 371 Décarie
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| La Presqu'Île sector | |||
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| 40 Express Vaudreuil - Terminus Côte-Vertu | |||
| Exo Laurentides sector | |||
| Route.[16] | |||
| 499 Service Express Terminus Côte-Vertu / Deux-Montagnes | |||
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Place Vertu opening advertisement page". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. 28 August 1975. p. 13.
- ^ "Sears taps the middle market". Montreal Star. Montreal. October 24, 1975. p. B5.
- ^ "Sears opening second store". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. 27 October 1975. p. 14.
- ^ a b "110-store complex nearly ready". Montreal Star. Montreal. August 16, 1975. p. A13.
- ^ "Dominion notice". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. July 11, 1981. p. 9.
- ^ a b "Place Vertu Renovations". MTLURB.com - Forum sur le développement immobilier du Grand Montréal. November 29, 2007.
- ^ "The end of the run for a former "Hudson's Bay" store". Flickr. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
- ^ "Target to Open First Stores in Quebec and Nova Scotia". Target Corporation.
- ^ Goldenberg, Joel (9 November 2016). "Sports Experts to fill Place Vertu Target space tomorrow". The Suburban. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
- ^ "National local merchants offer wide choice to public". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. 28 August 1975. p. 14.
- ^ "Mall Listing". 29 August 1999. Archived from the original on 29 August 1999. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Our history". 6 February 2017.
- ^ "Primaris Retail REIT buys five shopping centres". The Globe and Mail. 24 May 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
- ^ "Shopping center Place Vertu | Westcliff Group". Westcliff.
- ^ "The Westcliff Group". Place Vertu. November 28, 2017.
- ^ "Plan of Terminus Côte-Vertu". Archived from the original on 2011-12-09. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
External links
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