| Location | 3003 Le Carrefour Laval, Quebec |
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| Opening date | March 28, 1974 |
| Developer | Fairview Corporation |
| Management | Cadillac Fairview |
| Owner | Cadillac Fairview |
| No. of stores and services | 300+ |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 |
| Total retail floor area | 115,478 m2/1,242,990 sq ft (GLA) |
| Parking | Outdoor and multi-floor indoor |
| No. of floors | 1 |
| Website | http://www.carrefourlaval.ca/ |
Carrefour Laval is a super regional mall located in Laval, Quebec, Canada at the intersection of the Laurentian Highway (A-15) and Laval Freeway (A-440). At 115,478 m2 (1,242,990 sq ft), it is the largest enclosed mall in the Montreal area and also Quebec's largest mall operating on one floor, like all enclosed malls in Laval.
Carrefour Laval is one of the four fashion centres in the Montreal area that also include Fairview Pointe-Claire, Les Promenades Saint-Bruno and Les Galeries d'Anjou.
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The mall has more than 300 stores, boutiques and restaurants. It has five major anchor stores; they are: the Bay, Sears, Simons, Rona and Staples.
Various other retailers are represented in the mall, including Vero Moda, Top Shop, ONLY, Jack & Jones, Forever 21, Stuart Weitzman, Lacoste, Guess Accesoiries, Steve Madden, H&M, Zara, HMV, Le Château, Rockport Store, Sports Experts, Old Navy, Browns, B2, American Eagle Outfitters, Renaud-Bray, La Senza, Banana Republic, Subway, A&W, Marciano, Guess Gap, Aldo Groupe, Stone Ridge, Tommy Hilfiger, Aveda, The Body Shop, Crabtree & Evelyn, Telus, Rogers, Fido, Levi's, LensCrafters, Parasuco, Energie/Miss Sixty, GEOX, ECCO, Mephisto Concept Store, Oakley, Mexx, Printwell, Starbucks Coffee Shop, Jacob, Swarovski, The Children's Place, EB Games, Sephora, Joshua Perets, Bath & Body Works, Stitches, MAC Cosmetics, AIX Armani Exchange, BCBG Max Azria, American Apparel among others.
Banking services include the Bank of Montreal.
Since 1 November 2009, Carrefour Laval requires its food court tenants to use solid dinnerware and cutlery, which it provides, instead of the traditional foam containers found in the vast majority of food courts.[1]
Carrefour Laval has a reputation of being a stepping door for many international retail chains looking to gain a foothold either in the province, the country or even North America.
Construction of the mall was first announced on 27 February 1969 by Steinberg's and Eaton's. The consortium announced that a 150-store mall would be built on a 20,000,000-square-foot (1,900,000 m2) property next to the Laurentian Highway, subject to the construction of the necessary infrastructure by the newly formed city of Laval.[2]
The project had been delayed after a zoning bylaw proposed by mayor Jacques Tétreault that would effectively have given the Carrefour Laval consortium a monopoly over the development of the proposed downtown core of Laval was challenged by the opposition and by members of his own party, who supported the construction of a second mall in the immediate vicinity by the Oshawa Group.[3] A zoning amendment proposed by opposition councillor Lucien Paiement (later mayor), which allowed the Oshawa Group to build its own mall was adopted. By then, Morgan's and Simpson's had joined the Carrefour Laval consortium.[3] However, Morgan's dropped out, preferring instead to anchor an expansion of the existing Centre Laval,[4] just 2.5 km (1.6 mi) away on the other side of Highway 15.
An AMT bus terminal is located across boulevard le Carrefour from the Carrefour Laval. From it the STL offers frequent bus service to and from Montmorency metro station, the terminus of the orange line of the Montreal Metro.