Place Rosemère Explained

Place Rosemère
Address:401, boulevard Curé-Labelle
Rosemère, Quebec, Canada
J7A 3T2
Coordinates:45.63°N -73.82°W
Opening Date:August 13, 1975
Number Of Stores:200
Number Of Anchors:3
Floor Area:approx.
Floors:1 (2 in Hudson's Bay)

Place Rosemère is a super regional mall in Rosemère, Quebec, Canada. It is near the intersection of Quebec Autoroute 640 and Quebec Autoroute 15.[1] Its anchor stores are Walmart, La Baie and Best Buy. It has 200 stores, including a food court of thirteen restaurants.[2] Place Rosemère is operated by Morguard Investments.[3]

Place Rosemère began modestly when it first opened in August 1975 with approximately 65 stores at 337,000 square feet anchored by Woolco, Beaver Lumber and Dominion.[4] The Hudson's Bay Company had planned a La Baie store for the ianguration of the mall,[4] but nothing ever came out of this announcement and it's only on March 13, 1991, that it opened at Place Rosemère.[5]

Dominion was acquired by Provigo on June 15, 1981[6] and Woolco by Wal-Mart in 1995.[7]

The mall was purchased by Morguard in late 1986.[8]

A first expansion, opened in 1991, brought to the mall to 90 stores along with the newly opened La Baie store of 140,000 square feet.[8] The mall itself reached 605,677 square feet and almost doubled its floor area.[8] This expansion also relocated the Canadian Tire store into the new section.

Another expansion, opened on September 19, 2002, brought the mall to its current size and layout as Wal-Mart relocated to a new location earlier in February 2002 and a new Sears store moved to the old Wal-Mart store.[9] This expansion coincided with the closing of two other anchor stores when Canadian Tire moved to a standalone location across the street and Provigo, one of the last supermarkets to be located in a Canadian regional mall, closed its doors. Some smaller stores took the place of the old Canadian Tire store, and Zara, Pharmaprix and Dormez-Vous took the place of the old Provigo store.

A new Best Buy store opened on November 13, 2008.[10]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: About us | Place Rosemère.
  2. Web site: Place Rosemère. 2007-12-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20071203052140/http://www.placerosemere.com/Index.aspx?lang=EN-CA. 2007-12-03.
  3. https://morguardretailleasing.com/building/place-rosemere?search=
  4. News: Bay plans outlets at Place Rosemêre. Montreal Gazette. Montreal. 51. June 6, 1975.
  5. News: Bucking The Trend; The Bay flies in face of recession, opening four new stores. The Ottawa Citizen. Ottawa. E6. 20 February 1991.
  6. News: Dominion notice. Montreal Gazette. Montreal. 19. June 13, 1981.
  7. News: More than $50 M to be invested in Montreal's North Shore - Place Rosemere to increase its area by almost 50%. Canada NewsWire. Ottawa. 12 September 2001.
  8. News: Bay plans outlets at Place Rosemêre. Montreal Gazette. Montreal. B5. 13 November 1989.
  9. News: Super-regional shopping complex now in Rosemere The new Place Rosemere clocks in at over 1 million square feet. Canada NewsWire. Ottawa. 1. September 13, 2002.
  10. News: Best Buy celebrates opening of Rosemere store with free Garou performance. Canada NewsWire. Ottawa. 5 November 2008.