St. Laurent Centre

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St. Laurent Centre
St Laurent Mall.JPG
An entrance to the mall
Address1200 St. Laurent Boulevard
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
K1K 3B8
Opening dateOctober 4, 1967
OwnerMorguard REIT
No. of stores and services195
Total retail floor area90,200 square metres (971,000 sq ft)
No. of floors3
Parkingover 4600 spaces
Public transit accessOttawa - Line 1 Confederation Line.svg St-Laurent station
Websitehttp://www.stlaurent-centre.com

The St. Laurent Centre (also known as St. Laurent) is a major shopping centre located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is owned and operated by Morguard REIT. The shopping mall is located just north of Highway 417 at the corner of St. Laurent Boulevard and Coventry Road.

It opened its doors in October 1967 housing 50 retailers with Simpson-Sears (later rebranded Sears), Freimans and Dominion as original anchors.[1] It is the first regional shopping centre in Ottawa.[2] Sears, the last original anchor, closed on January 8, 2018, due to bankruptcy of the chain.[3][4] Hudsons Bay is currently the mall's oldest anchor tenant, having purchased Freimans in December 1971 and rebranding the store to The Bay in June 1973.[5] On March 13, 1991, Hudson's Bay moved to its current two level location as part of a mall expansion.[6][7] It is adjacent to the former space of The Bay and 50% larger.[8] The former store was converted to a food court, office space, and other retailers.

St. Laurent is the third largest mall in terms of total space in the National Capital Region with 880,736 sq ft of leasable area,[9] although a large portion of the mall's gross leasable area is utilized by non-retail tenants. It is currently the 27th largest mall in Canada. The owner has applied to the City of Ottawa for land-use planning approvals to permit an expansion of the mall, bringing the overall size to 121,000 square metres (1,300,000 sq ft). If approved, the expansion would make St. Laurent the tenth largest mall in Canada.[10] The expansion is currently on hold indefinitely, although a modernization program is underway.[11]

The shopping centre has a total of 195 stores and services on three levels. The centre also hosts a large amount of non-retail tenants including office space, a large dental clinic, a Goodlife gym, a second-run theatre and two specialized colleges (Herzig College and Everest College).

Transportation[]

Public Transit[]

OC Transpo's St. Laurent Station is connected to the mall. It has three levels: the underground O-Train Confederation Line platforms, the intermediate mezzanine which connects to the shopping centre, and a local bus platform on the upper level where OC Transpo routes 5, 7, 14 and 18 all end or start their trips. The tunnel-level is accessible via escalators and elevators from the mall. OC Transpo also has a client service kiosk. The original Transitway station opened in 1987 and the mall had an expansion of about 80 stores at the same time. [1] On June 28, 2015, the underground Transitway platforms closed for Confederation Line construction. The station reopened on September 14, 2019, when Confederation Line service began.

Intercity Bus[]

Rider Express offers a Toronto-Kingston-Ottawa service departing from Entrance 3 of the St. Laurent Centre.[12][13]

Megabus stop is in bus part of St-Laurent Station.[14]

St-Laurent Centre logo

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Giant Ottawa Mart Opens". Women's Wear Daily. New York. 4 October 1967. p. 22.
  2. ^ http://www3.sympatico.ca/john.winter/1960s.htm
  3. ^ http://www.capitalmodern.ca/modern/works/sears-st-laurent/
  4. ^ "'Too little, too late': Sears a cautionary tale for other retailers | CBC News".
  5. ^ https://ottawa.citynews.ca/remember-this/remember-this-freimans-becomes-the-bay-1854496
  6. ^ "HBC Annual Report 1991" (PDF). McGill Digital Archives. August 25, 2021. Retrieved August 25, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ "BUSINESS / Week in review". The Ottawa Citizen. Ottawa. 10 March 1991. p. E8.
  8. ^ "Bucking The Trend; The Bay flies in face of recession, opening four new stores". The Ottawa Citizen. Ottawa. 20 February 1991. p. E6.
  9. ^ "St. Laurent Centre". morguardretailleasing.com. Morguard Real Estate Investment Trust. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  10. ^ St. Laurent Shopping Centre located in Ottawa, Shopping-Canada.com. Quoted: 30 August 2015
  11. ^ "St. Laurent mall expansion put off because business is booming, owner says | Ottawa Sun".
  12. ^ "Locations". Rider Express. Retrieved 8 July 2021. Ottawa - Our stop is moved to St Laurent Shopping Center in front of Entrance 3
  13. ^ "Toronto/Ottawa". Rider Express. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  14. ^ https://ca.megabus.com/stops

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Coordinates: 45°25′19″N 75°38′20″W / 45.422°N 75.639°W / 45.422; -75.639

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