| Location | Downtown Montreal Atwater station |
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| Opening date | 1967 |
| Developer | Alexis Nihon Group (REIT) |
| Management | CANMARC REIT |
| Owner | CANMARC REIT |
| Architect | Dimitri Dimakopoulos |
| No. of stores and services | 100+ |
| No. of anchor tenants | 6 |
| Total retail floor area | 400,000 sq ft/37,161 m2. |
| Parking | 1235 vehicles |
| No. of floors | 3 |
| Website | Official website |
Place Alexis Nihon is a 2,400,000 square feet (222,967 m2) complex in Downtown Montreal, Quebec (on the border with Westmount), consisting of a shopping centre, two office towers, and a residential building. The shopping mall is directly connected to the Atwater metro station, which joins the building by a short tunnel with the adjacent Dawson College, and by a longer one adjoins nearby Westmount Square.
A Homburg Canada Real Estate Investment Trust property now operating under the corporate name of CANMARC Real Estate Investment Trust[1], the mall is a 2,400,000 square feet (220,000 m2) urban complex adjacent to Downtown Montreal. Some 38,000 visitors, workers and students flock to it daily.
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Built in the year of Expo 67, Place Alexis Nihon is a multi-purpose complex, featuring two office towers, a residential tower, a three-level shopping centre and a parking with over 1,100 spaces.
On October 26, 1986, a major fire heavily damaged its 16-story office building and is still considered the city's biggest fire in a skyscraper. At least six stories were destroyed in the blaze. In 2002, the service de sécurité incendie de Montréal was heavily blamed for negligence and incompetence according to the Cour d'Appel du Québec. Several tenants including the federal government sued the then-owner of the building for several million dollars.[2]
During the Dawson shooting incident on September 13, 2006, the building was fully evacuated and some workers thought there were gun shots fired in the complex. Shots did reach the building during the shooting.[3][4]
Place Alexis Nihon, at the corner of Atwater Avenue and Ste-Catherine Street West, is accessible:
The complex is directly connected to the Atwater Metro station and offers numerous services, a variety of shops and superstores, and a food court with over 25 restaurants. In the past, it had Montreal's only Ikea Store, Miracle Mart and Steinberg.
Over 100 stores, of which 6 superstores: