Fleur de Lys centre commercial
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 L'Institut de réadaptation en déficience physique de Québec and close to the Videotron Centre.
Coordinates | 46°49′21″N 71°15′07″W |
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Address | 552, boulevard Wilfrid-Hamel Quebec City, Quebec G1M 3E5 |
Opening date | March 21, 1963 [1] |
Management | Trudel Immeubles |
No. of stores and services | 150[2] |
No. of anchor tenants | 2 |
Total retail floor area | 857,571 square feet (79,671.0 m2)[2] |
No. of floors | 1 |
Parking | 4410 |
Website | www |
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]
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
- "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.
- "Fleur de Lys". Retrieved April 30, 2018.
- À PROPOS DU CENTRE (in French) Retrieved April 30, 2018.
- "Sears : ruée vers les rabais". Le Soleil. October 19, 2017.
- "Société d'Histoire Les Rivières | Il y a 50 ans Sears ouvrait son premier magasin du Québec à Vanier".
- Sears Canada. "Sears History (1963-1967)". Sears Canada. Archived from the original on January 5, 2013. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
- "Kmart ouvrira jeudi le 17 octobre à 9:30". Le Soleil. 16 October 1968. p. 72.
- "Place Fleur de Lys agrandie". Le Soleil. 20 March 1980. p. A-13.
- "La Baie à Place Fleur de Lys : 250 nouveaux emplois". Le Soleil. 29 September 1992. p. B-12.
- ICI.Radio-Canada.ca, Zone Économie-. "Il y a 25 ans, Steinberg disparaissait". Radio-Canada.ca.
- "Club Biz ouvre un 4e magasin-entrepôt, à Québec". Le Soleil. 5 May 1993. p. C-2.
- "Achat des Club Biz". Le Soleil. 22 February 1996. p. B-1.
- "Kmart ferme ses deux magasins de Québec et celui d 'Arthabaska". Le Soleil. 3 March 1995. p. 72.
- ICI.Radio-Canada.ca, Zone Économie-. "Le dernier Zellers de Québec a fermé ses portes". Radio-Canada.ca.
- ICI.Radio-Canada.ca, Zone Économie-. "De premiers Target au Québec". Radio-Canada.ca.
- "Walmart buying 13 former Target Canada stores | The Star". thestar.com.
- "La lente agonie de Sears Canada s'achève". Le Soleil. January 14, 2018.
- "Fermeture de Sears : 427 pertes d'emplois à Québec". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. October 10, 2017. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
- "Fermeture du magasin La Baie de Fleur de Lys". Le Journal de Québec. October 6, 2016. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
- Jean-Michel Genois Gagnon. "Les jours sont comptés pour La Baie à Fleur de Lys". Le Soleil. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
- Accessibility (in French) Retrieved April 30, 2018.
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