Carrefour Angrignon

Carrefour Angrignon is a shopping centre in the Montreal borough of LaSalle in Quebec, Canada. Popular stores include Hudson's Bay, Staples, Best Buy, Maxi and Famous Players. There is also a food court. Built in 1986, it is located on Newman Boulevard, at the intersection with Angrignon Boulevard.

Interior Carrefour Angrignon Food Court
Interior Carrefour Angrignon. Laura and HMV can be seen in the background.

History

Carrefour Angrignon opened in August 1986 with 200 stores and anchors from its debut were Sears, Zellers, Maxi, Eaton's and Pascal's.[1] The mall basically inaugurated on August 13 but some stores had varying opening dates (such as August 25 for Maxi).[1][2][3]

The mall underwent changes in 1991, as the former Pascal's store became a car lot for a one-year period (Rallye Honda Lasalle) prior to being split in two to become a movie theatre. Cine Entreprise built the theatre before Cine Entreprise was itself sold to Famous Players. By 1995, Famous Players and Future Shop occupied the former Cine Entreprise space. After a succession of ownership changes the movie theatre is now owned by Cineplex.

Eaton's closed in February 1998.[4] Eaton's former space is occupied by Staples, Sports Experts/Atmosphere and Economax.

Future Shop moved to a new standalone location in 2004; it was demolished and rebuilt as a Best Buy store. Fortune Cinemas replaced the Famous Players location in 2006, only to be repurchased by Cineplex a few years later.

The Cumberland Drugs chain, which replaced Kanes Super Drug Mart in 1990, became an Essaim in 1997, changing to the current Pharmaprix by 2005.

Target was assuming the lease of the Zellers store on November 13, 2013.[5] Target was closed in 2015.[6]

Sears permanently closed on January 14, 2018.[7] This leaves Maxi as the last anchor from 1986 whose supermarket at Carrefour Angrignon also happens to be its oldest location on the island of Montreal among the retailer's current stores.[3][8]

A one-level Hudson's Bay store replaced Target on August 24, 2018.[9][10][6] Sears's former location was subdivided in 2019 by L'Aubainerie and Ardene.[11]

See also

References
  1. "Carrefour Angrignon opening promo page". La Presse. Montreal. 12 August 1986. p. 15.
  2. "Grandes surfaces: Provigo talonne Super Carnaval". La Presse. Montreal. 26 August 1986. p. A9.
  3. "Maxi advertisement page". La Presse. Montreal. 2 July 1986. p. H2.
  4. "Eaton vivra" (PDF). La Presse. Montreal. 9 September 1997. p. A2.
  5. "Target Confirms Store Locations Opening in 2013". Canada Newswire. Retrieved October 22, 2012.
  6. David, Pascaline (August 9, 2018). "Carrefour Angrignon: ouverture prochaine de La Baie".
  7. "Final Sears stores close Sunday, marking the end of an era | The Star". thestar.com.
  8. "Depuis la fermeture du Maxi: un autre désert alimentaire au nord de la 40". January 21, 2016.
  9. d'Hudson, la Baie. "La Baie d'Hudson annonce l'ouverture d'un nouveau magasin au Québec". www.newswire.ca.
  10. "Hudson's Bay Company opens LaSalle store | Montreal Gazette". August 24, 2018.
  11. "Plan du centre commercial | Carrefour Angrignon". May 25, 2019. Archived from the original on May 25, 2019.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.