Fleur de Lys centre commercial

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Fleur de Lys centre commercial
Coordinates46°49′21″N 71°15′07″W / 46.8224°N 71.252°W / 46.8224; -71.252Coordinates: 46°49′21″N 71°15′07″W / 46.8224°N 71.252°W / 46.8224; -71.252
Address552, boulevard Wilfrid-Hamel
Quebec City, Quebec
G1M 3E5
Opening dateMarch 21, 1963 [1]
ManagementTrudel Immeubles
No. of stores and services150[2]
No. of anchor tenants2
Total retail floor area857,571 square feet (79,671.0 m2)[2]
No. of floors1
Parking4410
Websitewww.fdlcentrecommercial.com (in French)

Fleur de Lys centre commercial (formerly and still commonly called Place Fleur de Lys) is a shopping mall located in the Vanier borough of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, managed by Trudel Immeubles since July 2018, and was last renovated in 2004.[2] It is located across from and close to the Videotron Centre.

With its 150 stores, Fleur de Lys centre commercial is located in an urban area near various development projects.[3] It is anchored by Walmart and Maxi.[2]

History[]

Place Fleur de Lys opened on March 21, 1963 with anchors Simpsons-Sears (Sears), Steinberg and Zellers.[1] Place Fleurs de Lys is notable for having the first ever Sears department store in the province of Quebec.[4][5][6]

On October 17, 1968, S.S. Kresge Co Ltée opened a Kmart store. As with Sears five years earlier, the Kmart at Place Fleurs de Lys was the first in the province.[7]

In March 1980, Place Fleur de Lys expanded from 650 000 square feet to 850 000 to reach 170 stores including a new Pascal hardware store.[8] After Pascal closed, its former space of 75 000 square feet was converted into another mall expansion of 145 000 square feet anchored by a single level The Bay store which opened on October 7, 1992.[9]

Steinberg went bankrupt in 1992 and its store at Fleur de Lys was not converted into another supermarket.[10][9] It was instead replaced on May 5, 1993 by Club Biz, an office supply retailer founded by former executives of the Steinberg supermarket chain, which operated until 1996.[11][12] Club Biz at Place Fleur de Lys was the chain's only store located outside the Montreal area.[12]

Kmart closed on May 31, 1995 and the Zellers in the mall relocated in its space.[13] Zellers at Fleur de Lys was the last remaining store of the chain in Quebec City by the time it closed on March 14, 2013.[14] Target had acquired the lease of Zellers and opened a store at Fleur de Lys on October 18, 2013 as part of the retailer's second wave of openings in Quebec.[15] In 2015, Walmart bought the lease of the former Target store.[16]

Sears lasted until the end of the chain on January 14, 2018.[17][18] The departure of Sears came four months after the mall had lost another department store, The Bay, which closed on September 23, 2017.[19][20]

LUDOVICA Miniland mini blocks exhibition piece at Fleur de Lys centre commercial, in 2018, depicting Montreal′s Olympic Village

Access[]

The mall is access by Quebec Autoroute 973 and Quebec Route 138 via boulevard Wilfrid-Hamel.

Réseau de transport de la Capitale has a number of regular bus routes serving the mall.[21]

See also[]

  • List of largest enclosed shopping malls in Canada

Other malls in Quebec City area:

References[]

  1. ^ a b "2 articles on the same page (Maintentant, quatre succursales au Québec) and (Révolution dans la garde-robe masculine)". Le Soleil. March 20, 1963. p. 58.
  2. ^ a b c d "Fleur de Lys". Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  3. ^ À PROPOS DU CENTRE (in French) Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  4. ^ "Sears : ruée vers les rabais". Le Soleil. October 19, 2017.
  5. ^ "Société d'Histoire Les Rivières | Il y a 50 ans Sears ouvrait son premier magasin du Québec à Vanier".
  6. ^ Sears Canada. "Sears History (1963-1967)". Sears Canada. Archived from the original on January 5, 2013. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  7. ^ "Kmart ouvrira jeudi le 17 octobre à 9:30". Le Soleil. 16 October 1968. p. 72.
  8. ^ "Place Fleur de Lys agrandie". Le Soleil. 20 March 1980. p. A-13.
  9. ^ a b "La Baie à Place Fleur de Lys : 250 nouveaux emplois". Le Soleil. 29 September 1992. p. B-12.
  10. ^ ICI.Radio-Canada.ca, Zone Économie-. "Il y a 25 ans, Steinberg disparaissait". Radio-Canada.ca.
  11. ^ "Club Biz ouvre un 4e magasin-entrepôt, à Québec". Le Soleil. 5 May 1993. p. C-2.
  12. ^ a b "Achat des Club Biz". Le Soleil. 22 February 1996. p. B-1.
  13. ^ "Kmart ferme ses deux magasins de Québec et celui d 'Arthabaska". Le Soleil. 3 March 1995. p. 72.
  14. ^ ICI.Radio-Canada.ca, Zone Économie-. "Le dernier Zellers de Québec a fermé ses portes". Radio-Canada.ca.
  15. ^ ICI.Radio-Canada.ca, Zone Économie-. "De premiers Target au Québec". Radio-Canada.ca.
  16. ^ "Walmart buying 13 former Target Canada stores | The Star". thestar.com.
  17. ^ "La lente agonie de Sears Canada s'achève". Le Soleil. January 14, 2018.
  18. ^ "Fermeture de Sears : 427 pertes d'emplois à Québec". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. October 10, 2017. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  19. ^ "Fermeture du magasin La Baie de Fleur de Lys". Le Journal de Québec. October 6, 2016. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  20. ^ Jean-Michel Genois Gagnon. "Les jours sont comptés pour La Baie à Fleur de Lys". Le Soleil. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  21. ^ Accessibility (in French) Retrieved April 30, 2018.

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