Galeries d'Anjou

Galeries d'Anjou (corporately styled "CF Galeries d'Anjou" since September 2015) is a shopping mall located in the Anjou borough of 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, and its Simons store is the only one in the province opened until 9:00pm all five weeknights.[3][4] The mall is roughly 1,114,000 square feet (103,500 m2) and has stores around its parking lot including Best Buy and Rona l'Entrepôt.

Galeries d'Anjou
LocationMontreal, Quebec
Address7999 Galeries d'Anjou Blvd.
Anjou, Quebec
H1M 1W9
Opening dateAugust 8, 1968
DeveloperCemp Investments (planner)
Ain & Zakuta Ltd (builder) [1]
ManagementCadillac Fairview
OwnerCadillac Fairview (50%)
Ivanhoé Cambridge (50%)
No. of stores and services+- 175
No. of anchor tenants6
Total retail floor area1,114,000 sq ft (103,500 m2).
No. of floors1
Parking6000 [2]
Websitelesgaleriesdanjou.ca

Galeries d'Anjou is one of Cadillac Fairview's four self-branded "fashion centres". The others are the Carrefour Laval, Fairview Pointe-Claire, and Les Promenades Saint-Bruno. Like Fairview Pointe-Claire (but unlike Carrefour Laval and Promenades Saint-Bruno), Galeries d'Anjou is co-owned by Ivanhoé Cambridge. Galeries d'Anjou is the smallest of the four "fashion centres" in terms of number of stores, and the only one located within the city limits of Montreal.

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] Simpson's and Eaton's were located at the extremities of the mall, with store dimensions of 180,000 and 150,000 square feet respectively.[5] Steinberg's and Dominion faced each another in the middle of the mall and were separated from one another by a small 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.[6] 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.[7]

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.[8] As a result, 65 new stores opened on March 25, 1976 in a new mall wing that was anchored a few months later by Sears which inaugurated in August 1976.[9][10][11]

In 1987, Galeries d'Anjou had approximately 170 tenants and was anchored by Simpsons, Eaton's, Sears, Steinberg's and Provigo.[12][13] Simpsons rebranded as The Bay in March 1989 and Provigo closed outright the same year.[14][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][21] 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 underwent through renovations for the second time of its history in 1993.[22] The mall did not increase in size this time, but it extensively had its floors, ceilings and door entrances redone.[23][22] Galeries d'Anjou's anchors at the time were The Bay, Eaton's, Sears and Maxi.[22]

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.[24][25] The second floor of Eaton's was taken over by The Brick four years later on April 15, 2004.[26][27]

In 2002, Maxi closed to make room for an enlarged Sports Experts and new Atmosphere opened on September 3, 2003.[28]

In August 2013, Galeries d'Anjou introduced a new section of 150,000 square feet featuring Simons and some 15 other retailers.[29][30] 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) whose building was demolished to accommodate the expansion.[31][32] Simons inaugurated on August 15, 2013 and was the chain's first store with a restaurant in it.[4] 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.[33][2]

Target acquired the lease of Zellers at Galeries d'Anjou, allowing it to open its own store on October 18, 2013.[34] 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.[33]

The Sears at Galeries d'Anjou was among the stores that closed during the chain's final day in Canada on January 14, 2018.[35]

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See also

References
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  27. "Deux autres magasins de meubles à Laval". La Presse. Montreal. 29 March 2004. p. LP3. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  28. "Déluges d'ouvertures d'Atmosphère". La Presse. Montreal. 9 February 2003. p. D53. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
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