Neighbourhood shopping centres in Montreal


This is a list of small shopping centres in the island of Montreal.
Plaza Baie d'Urfé is a small strip mall located in Baie d'Urfé, Quebec, Canada, on 90 Morgan Street across from Quebec Autoroute 20. The shopping centre is currently owned by First Capital Realty and is anchored by Maxi. It opened in 1967 but was destroyed by a fire in 1980. It was rebuilt and reopened in 1981.

Beaconsfield

Centre commercial Beaconsfield is a small indoor shopping mall located in Beaconsfield, Quebec, Canada, on 50 St. Charles Blvd. across from Quebec Autoroute 20. The anchor of this mall is a Metro Plus.
Beaconsfield opened in 1961 as an outdoor shopping centre. In 1973, it was turned into an enclosed shopping mall and the number of stores jumped from 23 to 35.
In 1992 its primary tenants were Steinberg and a Canadian Tire and the former became Metro on June 8, 1992. In 1995, Canadian Tire relocated to a new standalone store in Kirkland, Quebec, while Dollarama, Wimgym and Royal Bank took over the lease.
Formerly an Ivanhoe shopping centre, Beaconsfield was sold in 2002 to First Capital Realty by Ivanhoé Cambridge.
Royal Bank moved to a new standalone location near the mall in 2008 and the mall's northern half was demolished and was replaced entirely with glass. Metro Plus replaced the former Canadian Tire store in December 2008.

Côte Saint-Luc

Cavendish Mall

Cavendish Mall is an indoor shopping centre in Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec, Canada. It includes a food court, a multiplex movie theatre and a medical clinic: the CLSC René Cassin. A small highrise office-building is adjoined to the mall's southern half. Redeveloped in 2011, the mall was reduced to almost half its original size.
David Cronenberg's 1977 film Rabid features scenes shot in the mall.
The mall has experienced declining patronage over the past decade due to an aging population. Another serious blow was the closing of its two main anchors: Eaton's and Canadian Tire. Other notable closures included Caplan Duval, The Source, Gap, Consumers Distributing, Music World, Steinberg's, Miracle Mart, Staples, Cineplex theater and restaurants: Pumpernicks, Cattleman's and Katerina's. With the southern half of the mall vacant it had been considered a dead mall throughout the 2000s. In 2010, a large portion of the mall was demolished to make way for a new residential development.
Timeline
  • 1973: Mall opens. Anchors are Eaton's, Warshaw's, Steinberg's and Miracle Mart
  • 1978: Warshaws closes; becomes a Canadian Tire
  • : Miracle Mart closes; space divided to become Lupton Duval and Cineplex Odeon
  • 1991: Opening of J&R Kosher Meat and Delicatessen.
  • 1992: Steinberg's ceases operations; this store is taken over by IGA
  • 1995: Firestone taken over by Pneus Expert.
  • 1996: Consumers Distributing closes.
  • 1997: Scotiabank acquires National Trust
  • 1998: Eaton's closes; part of space becomes Superclub Videotron.
  • 2005: Canadian Tire closes and RadioShack becomes The Source By Circuit City
  • 2006: The Gap closes.
  • 2007: Music World, Browns Shoes and The Source close. Dollarama opens in Canadian Tire space.
  • 2009: Caplan Duval and Superclub Videotron close.
  • 2010: 40% of the mall demolished to make way for residential housing development.
  • 2011: Cavendish Mall rebranded as Quartier Cavendish.
  • 2015: Staples closes; Econofitness gym opens in its space.
  • 2018: McDonald's closes.
  • 2020: Cineplex Odeon multiplex theater closes; taken over by CinéStarz Deluxe.
  • 2022: J&R Kosher Meat and Delicatessen closes.
Consolidation and revitalization

In August 2007 the owners announced a partial demolition to reduce the mall and consolidate its tenants. In August 2010 the remaining tenants were relocated to the north end of the mall. Demolition of the south end began October 2010.
In December 2010 demolition of 40% of mall was completed, effectively removing its southern end. The mall was reduced to of space with room for 55 stores and space for a small indoor children's play area. Previously the mall was approximately. Extensive reconstruction was done in the old Caplan Duval site, where the CLSC Rene Cassin is now located. The former section of the demolished mall underwent construction of roads and sidewalks along with newly built townhouses and semi-detached homes. This included the sale of 39 lots for single-family homes.

Côte Saint-Luc

Côte Saint-Luc Shopping Centre is a small indoor shopping mall in Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec, Canada. Built in 1956 by Ivanhoe, it is now operated by First Capital Realty. It was transformed into an enclosed mall in 1970.
The first anchors of the mall were a Steinberg and Zellers. Prohome eventually took place of the Zellers store in 1987. Steinberg went bankrupt in 1992, and the store was sold as an IGA store. Prohome closed in 1997, and Rona Le Quincallier took its place. That store closed in 2005. Jean Coutu, which relocated within the mall, took part of the space, and a Caplan Duval opened in part of the former Rona space in 2010. Also, in the late 2000s, IGA's store was remodelled by counting its exterior.
Since its inception, the mall has always had only two major anchors; the current ones are IGA and Jean Coutu.
A Blockbuster store opened in the late 1990s, and closed in 2011.

Décarie Square

Décarie Square is a three-story indoor shopping mall, with two floors of retail shopping and one floor of office space, located on the outskirts of Côte Saint-Luc, a city in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The mall was constructed in 1977 at a cost of over $20 million, under the ownership of Oshawa Group. Going back as far back as the mid-1980s, it has been described as a white elephant due its extremely high vacancy rate and low shopper traffic. Even today, much of the space in the mall remains empty with for rent signs plastered on vacant shop windows.
The mall includes the chain store Winners-HomeSense and various independent discount and service shops. A fitness gym and a video lottery gambling bar are also situated within the mall. Government service offices of the SAAQ automobile licence bureau, Saint-Laurent Local Employment Center and Service Canada employment insurance center are also found within the mall, as well as the Décarie Medical Centre. The third floor is exclusively for rental office space.
By 2011, in an effort to re-purpose much of the vacant shopping space into a more profitable venture, the mall owner, Canpro Investments Ltd., moved ahead with a project to convert more than a fifth of the mall's retail space into a medical centre with room for doctors' offices. The construction and renovation cost was estimated at the time between $10 million and $15 million, and was started before any interested parties came forward or signed any leases; this was in essence a "build it and they will come strategy". The late David Azrieli, former head of Canpro, was quoted as saying "I'm willing to sign off that by August 2012 it will be ready and occupied." After a slow start, by 2017, the medical center had over 20 tenants with 30,000 square feet still available to lease. The space currently includes a walk-in clinic and various specialists' and doctors' offices.

Dollard-des-Ormeaux

Dorval

Dorval Gardens

Dorval Gardens is a shopping mall in the suburb of Dorval, in Montreal, Quebec, located on Dorval Avenue near Autoroute 20. It is the oldest shopping centre in the West Island and the fourth in Montreal after Norgate, Village Champlain and Le Boulevard. It was built in 1954 by Sam Steinberg and his Ivanhoe Corporation. The shopping centre was owned for more than 45 years by Ivanhoe but was sold in 2001. It is currently managed by CentreCorp Management Services Ltd. Anchor stores are Walmart, Hudson's Bay and Maxi.
Dorval Gardens was originally built as a large L-shaped strip mall which opened in 1954 with 35 stores. Anchor stores in 1954 were Morgan's department store and Steinberg's supermarket. Steinberg's and most of the original 35 tenants opened on April 7, 1954. A minority of tenants opened at slightly later dates including Morgan's which inaugurated on April 29, 1954. At 57, 000 square feet of floor space, it was the largest of the three suburban Morgan's locations until it was surpassed by a new store at Lawrence Plaza in North York.
Morgan's added a second floor to its store on August 28, 1961. The Morgan's store was destroyed by a major fire on April 21, 1969, which caused over $1.0million in damage and required the help of firefighters from other neighbouring West Island municipalities to contain the blaze. Following the destruction of its store, Morgan's relocated to a temporary location on the site of a former bowling alley in the same building as the Dorval Theatre. The store was rebuilt afterwards and reopened on March 4, 1970. It was rebranded as The Bay in 1972.
Dorval Gardens was converted into an enclosed shopping centre in 1968. In the 1970s, Dorval Gardens was surrounded with glass. In 1985, the mall was expanded into its current layout, doubling its number of stores: the original parts of the mall correspond to what is to the south or west of the enclosed walkway, including the spaces currently occupied by Maxi and Hudson's Bay; areas to the east or north of the walkway were added. These additions included a Pascal hardware store, which relocated from a nearby strip mall.
The Pascal store was closed and emptied in 1991, before reopening as Zellers in October 1992. Zellers closed its doors on January 22, 2012. Walmart assumed the lease and remodelled the store before opening it to the public in September 2012. This location was not one of the 39 Zellers stores that Walmart Canada acquired from Target Canada at a similar time.
In mid-1992, the Steinberg's supermarket became a Provigo despite the presence at the time of another grocery store with the same banner in the adjacent strip mall. By late 1992, the Provigo at Dorval Gardens had been rebranded to its sister chain Maxi which remains to this day.
A Dollarama operated for a number of years before closing in late 2009. After a one-year absence, Dollarama returned to the mall in the space of Pharmaprix which itself has relocated to Dollarama's former space.
Sports Experts returned to the mall, opening November 1, 2012 and occupying the same space it did in the 2000s.
Hudson's Bay announced it will be permanently closing its store location at Dorval Gardens by September 2021, after 67 years of operation.