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Opening date
  
1963

Management
  
Place Versailles Inc.

No. of stores and services
  
225

Province
  
Québec

Number of stores and services
  
225

Developer
  
Lanabar Realty Inc.

Owner
  
Place Versailles Inc.

Opened
  
1963

Phone
  
+1 514-352-1440

Number of anchor tenants
  
4

Location
  
7275, rue Sherbrooke Est Montreal, Quebec, Canada H1N 1E9

Address
  
7275 Rue Sherbrooke E, Montréal, QC H1N 1E9, Canada

Hours
  
Closed now Monday9:30AM–9PMTuesday9:30AM–9PMWednesday9:30AM–9PMThursday9:30AM–9PMFriday9:30AM–9PMSaturday9AM–5PMSunday10AM–5PMSuggest an edit

Similar
  
Galeries d'Anjou, Place Vertu, Alexis Nihon Complex, Montreal Eaton Centre, Radisson

Profiles

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Place Versailles is a super regional mall located at the corner of Sherbrooke Street East and Highway 25 in the Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. At more than 1,100,000 square feet (100,000 m2) with 225 stores, it is one of the largest shopping centres on the island of Montreal. Its anchors are Canadian Tire, Maxi, Winners/HomeSense and Bureau en Gros.

Contents

Most of the mall is one storey high, but a section of the mall, which was added in the 1980s, has two floors. Place Versailles is situated next to the Radisson metro station and is less than 2 km south of the Galeries d'Anjou mall.

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History

Place Versailles began in 1963 with Steinberg, Miracle Mart and some 30 small stores. The mall was originally known as Place Métropolitaine in its first months but was renamed Place Versailles by 1964. Place Versailles was the first indoor shopping mall in Montreal (as opposed to a strip mall).

Place Versailles went through several expansions throughout its history.Just in the 1960s decade, the mall has expanded twice. By the end of the 1960s, Place Versailles had a Pascal hardware store. In 1973, the Hudson's Bay Company opened a la Baie department store.

From 1973 to 1986, Place Versailles was anchored by la Baie, Miracle Mart, Steinberg and Pascal. In 1986, Miracle Mart was rebranded under the M brand name. In the late 1980s, Place Versailles expanded again and a new section was built with two floors, instead of one floor as in the rest of the mall.

On May 16, 1991, the Pascal hardware chain went bankrupt and Rona - Le Quincailler, a SAQ store, and Fabricville took its place not long after. Other small tenants also took the former space of Pascal. In 1992, Steinberg was converted to Maxi and the M store closed down two months later; Zellers shortly replaced the M store.

From 1992 to 2003, it was anchored by la Baie, Zellers, Maxi, and Rona- Le Quincailler.

Decrease in sales, coupled with the presence of a larger store in nearby Galeries d'Anjou, resulted in the Hudson's Bay Company closing its la Baie store at Place Versailles in 2003. La Baie's space has since been dismantled by Winners/Homesense, Globo, Style Exchange, Safari, Sports Experts, Dollarama, McDonald's, and Librairie Raffin.

Rona closed in 2005 and Bureau en Gros took its space a year later.

Zellers closed its doors in 2012 and was replaced by Target in 2013. Target closed in 2015 and lease sold to Canadian Tire in May 2015.

References

Place Versailles Wikipedia


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