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 built in 1963.[1] It is located across from L'Institut de réadaptation en déficience physique de Québec and close to the Videotron Centre. It is anchored by Walmart and Maxi.[1] The mall is access by Quebec Autoroute 973 and Quebec Route 138 via boulevard Wilfrid-Hamel.

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

History

Place Fleur de Lys opened on March 21, 1963, with anchors Simpsons-Sears (Sears), Steinberg and Zellers.[2] Place Fleurs de Lys is notable for having the first ever Sears department store in the province of Quebec.[3] This two level 140,000 square foot anchor space was the first French-speaking department store from the Toronto-based Simpsons-Sears Ltd.[4]

On October 17, 1968, S.S. Kresge Co Ltée opened a Kmart store.[5] As with Sears five years earlier, the Kmart at Place Fleurs de Lys was the first in the province.[5]

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.[6] 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.[7]

Kmart closed on May 31, 1995, and the Zellers in the mall relocated in its space.[8] Target 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.[9] On May 8, 2015, Walmart bought the lease of the former Target store.[10]

Primaris REIT completed its acquisition of Fleurs de Lys on July 20, 2005.[11] The mall was later managed by 20 VIC Management.[12] On August 15, 2017, Cushman & Wakefield announced it would acquire 20 VIC Management and the transaction was completed the following month in September, bringing Fleurs de Lys to its portfolio.[13][1]

Sears lasted until the end of the chain on January 14, 2018.[14]

In July 2018, the Fleurs de Lys shopping mall was purchased by Trudel Alliance from KingSett Capital for $60 million.[15] The acquisition happened in a time when the shopping mall had to deal with large vacant anchor spaces left by the departures of both Sears and Hudson's Bay.[16] The new owners have since began the process of redeveloping the mall.[15] The UQTR set up a campus for 6,000 students in the former Sears store.[17] Hart also opened a store within the former Sears building.[18] Hudson's Bay was replaced by Jysk, Dollarama and another local business.[19][20] An entire section of the mall was razed between the Sports Experts store and the former Sears building in 2021–2022.[21] Trudel has announced that it plans to build several residential towers on the site of the shopping mall, with one of the buildings already in construction as of 2023.[17]

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

See also

Other malls in Quebec City area:

References
  1. "Fleur de Lys". Cushman & Wakefield. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  2. "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.
  3. Sears Canada. "Sears History (1963-1967)". Sears Canada. Archived from the original on January 5, 2013. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  4. "Parle Francais At Quebec City Simpsons-Sears". Women's Wear Daily. New York. March 22, 1963. p. 30.
  5. "Kmart ouvrira jeudi le 17 octobre à 9:30". Le Soleil. 16 October 1968. p. 72.
  6. "Place Fleur de Lys agrandie". Le Soleil. 20 March 1980. p. A-13.
  7. "La Baie à Place Fleur de Lys : 250 nouveaux emplois". Le Soleil. 29 September 1992. p. B-12.
  8. "Kmart ferme ses deux magasins de Québec et celui d 'Arthabaska". Le Soleil. 3 March 1995. p. 72.
  9. "TARGET 'Ours is a different culture; it's a different service model'". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. September 14, 2013. p. C6.
  10. "Walmart buying 13 former Target Canada stores | The Star". thestar.com.
  11. "Primaris Retail REIT Announces $75 Million Public Offering of Trust Units". CNNMatthews Newswire. Toronto. July 18, 2005. p. 20.
  12. https://web.archive.org/web/20130928040919/http://20vic.com/retail.html
  13. https://www.lexpert.ca/archive/cushman-wakefield-completes-acquisition-of-20-vic-management-inc/351504
  14. Wright, Lisa (12 January 2018). "Final Sears stores close Sunday, marking the end of an era | The Star". thestar.com.
  15. "Real Estate Forums". www.realestateforums.com.
  16. Kucharsky, Danny (October 2, 2018). "Trudel Alliance: 20 years of growth in Quebec". renx.ca.
  17. Kucharsky, Danny (June 29, 2023). "Trudel's Fleur de lys: Quebec's $1.5B 'city within a city'". renx.ca.
  18. "Picture of the Hart store store". Google Streetview.
  19. "Picture of the Jysk store". Google Streetview.
  20. "Pictures of package delivery sign within former The Bay store". Google Streetview.
  21. "Pictures of the section demolished". Google Streetview.
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