Centre Laval is a

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located in the Chomedey district of Laval,

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, Canada, at the corner of Saint-Martin West and Le Corbusier boulevard. It is a 10-minute walk from the Montmorency metro station in nearby

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. Centre Laval is paired with Quartier Laval, a power centre across the street owned by the same company, with which it makes a shopping complex called DUO. Though located only away from the bigger and more popular

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, Centre Laval is a large shopping mall in its own right with nearly of retail space. It has 130 shops, services and department stores, including anchors

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, Bureau en Gros,

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, and Décathlon. Other tenants of importance include

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and Ares. There is also a branch of the

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History

Centre Laval began in 1968 as a indoor shopping mall with 50 stores anchored by

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theatre,

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and Steinberg's. It was notably the first shopping centre with a SAQ store. Centre Laval literally doubled its size on August 17, 1972, by expanding to the south for a new total of over 100 merchants. Three new mall wings were added and the old area of the shopping centre was renovated. The expansion was supposed to be anchored by

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. But by the time the expansion was completed, the Morgan chain had already been renamed to The Bay and the store at Centre Laval inaugurated under the new banner.

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baseball players

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and Terry Humphrey were present at Centre Laval on August 17 to sign autographs. In January 1994, it was announced that

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would buy the Woolco retail chain to establish a Canadian presence under its own name. Bureau en Gros acquired the lease of the bankrupt office supply chain Club Biz and inaugurated its Centre Laval store on June 1, 1996. Club Biz, which was founded in 1991 by executives of Steinberg's, had taken over in 1993 the space at Centre Laval of the defunct supermarket following the latter's closing in 1992. Walmart left Centre Laval in November 2012 to relocate as a Walmart Supercentre on the site formerly occupied by Centre 2000. Walmart's location at Centre Laval was demolished to allow a

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store on its location that operated from 2013 to 2015. The store closed when Target took the decision to withdraw all its Canadian operations. As of October 2017, part of that space was occupied by a Sportium sport equipment store. In 2018 more space is being occupied by a Avril Supermarché Santé supermarket, and

and

opened its first store in the province on October 3, 2018. In June 2020, it was announced that Sportium would close like all locations from that retail banner. Décathlon opened on December 19, 2020. The second floor of Hudson's Bay was closed around 2020 or 2021 and all of its merchandise is now on the first level. It is one of four locations tested by Hudson's Bay as part of a pilot project where the stores are used as showrooms so that "customers can easily place online orders for products not available in-store". Hudson's Bay closed on June 1, 2025.

Ownership

In April 2007, Homburg Invest Inc acquired Alexis Nihon REIT and thereby officially took ownership of the shopping centre. Centre Laval was transferred to Homburg Canada REIT in 2009 which eventually changed to Canmarc Real Estate Investment Trust in September 2011. Since March 2012, Centre Laval is owned and managed by Cominar following its acquisition of Canmarc.

References

External links

Official website
{{Malls in Montreal Buildings and structures in Laval, Quebec Shopping malls established in 1968 Shopping malls in Quebec 1968 establishments in Quebec

History

Ownership

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