Jardins Dorval
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Les Jardins Dorval (called Dorval Gardens in English) is one of the oldest shopping centres in Quebec. It is situated in the Montreal suburb of Dorval, Quebec, and located on Dorval Avenue near Autoroute 20. It was built in 1954 by the Ivanhoe Corporation which remained its owner until 2001 when it sold the mall to Edgecombe Property Management.
Popular stores include The Bay, Dollarama, Sports Expert, Zellers, Pharmaprix and Maxi. It is the West Island's fourth-largest shopping mall in size after Fairview Pointe-Claire, Galeries des Sources and Plaza Pointe-Claire. There is also a food court, with restaurants such as Scores and Pik-Nik.
Tenants in 1954 were Morgan's and Steinberg's. Morgan's suffered a major fire in the late 1960s and was rebuilt afterwards; it became The Bay in 1972. A Pascal hardware store was added in 1987 after moving from the nearby strip mall. The Pascal store was closed and emptied in 1990. In 1992, the Steinberg's grocery store became a Provigo, which in turn became Maxi a year later. Pascal's former location became a Zellers in 1993.
Jardins Dorval was originally built as an outdoor L shaped strip mall. It was enclosed in the 1970s with glass and in the 1980s was fully renovated into how the mall is currently seen, doubling its number of stores. The original part of the mall corresponds to what is currently South or West to the interconnecting walkway, including the spaces occupied today by Maxi and The Bay. What was added after the renovations is everything that is East or North to the walkway, as well as the walkway itself.
