Place Sainte-Foy is an upscale shopping mall located in the former city of Sainte-Foy of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. It is owned by Ivanhoé Cambridge and managed by JLL.
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| Location | Quebec City, Quebec, Canada |
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| Coordinates | 46°46′25″N 71°16′44″W / 46.7735°N 71.279°W |
| Address | 2450, boulevard Laurier |
| Opening date | November 27, 1958 |
| Developer | Ivanhoe Corporation |
| Management | JLL |
| Owner | Ivanhoé Cambridge |
| No. of stores and services | 135 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 |
| Total retail floor area | 590,000 sq ft (55,000 m2) |
| No. of floors | 1 |
| Parking | 3000 |
| Website | www |
The anchors are Simons, Signature Maurice Tanguay, Metro, Saks Off 5th and Archambault. The mall has 135 stores covering 590,000 square feet (54,800 square metres)[1] including the first Apple Store in the Capitale-Nationale. The mall is situated next to Université Laval and to the shopping malls Laurier Québec and Place de la Cité.
Place Sainte-Foy originated in November 1957 with only a Steinberg supermarket and evolved into the shopping centre that inaugurated a year later on November 27, 1958.[2][3] It was built and managed by Ivanhoe Corporation.[2][4] Initially a strip mall, Place Sainte-Foy was enclosed in 1964, becoming Ivanhoe's first shopping centre to convert.[5] From 2004 to 2012, Place Sainte-Foy was owned in equal proportions by Ivanhoé Cambridge and Commerzbank AG (Commerz Real) of Germany.[6][7] Ivanhoé Cambridge continued to be manager of the mall during those years.[6]
There have been a number of prominent department stores throughout the mall's history. A new Eaton store opened around September 1975 and lasted until the demise of the chain in 1999.[8][9] Eaton was located where is today the Maurice Tanguay furniture store which moved to Place Ste-Foy in 2001 from an existing location in Quebec City.[10] Holt Renfrew was in the shopping mall for 50 years, from 1965 to 2015.[11] There was also a Miracle Mart in the mall starting in the 1960s that later became a M store.[12][13] Les Ailes de la Mode selected Place Sainte-Foy to open a store in 1997 that eventually closed around 2014-2015.[14][15] Simons has been at Place Sainte-Foy since 1961 and doubled its size in 2007.[16]
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- ^ "Place Ste-Foy". CityKnown.com. Archived from the original on August 28, 2014. Retrieved March 13, 2022.
- ^ a b "Place Ste-Foy celebrates 60 years of success, avant-garde and experiences". Ivanhoé Cambridge. November 27, 2018.
- ^ "60th anniversary of Place Ste-Foy". Place Ste-Foy. Ivanhoé Cambridge.
- ^ "Ivanhoe Corp. advertisement". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. April 6, 1957. p. 37.
- ^ "'Converted' centres up sales shopping centres". Montreal Gazette. November 10, 1971. p. 29.
- ^ a b "Ivanhoe Cambridge sells 50% stake in 6 shopping centres, office building". CBC News. July 6, 2004. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
- ^ "Ivanhoé Cambridge acquires 100% ownership of four shopping centres in Quebec, Nova Scotia and British Columbia". Ivanhoé Cambridge. August 2, 2012.
- ^ "Eaton's advertising". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. September 10, 1975. p. 46.
- ^ Mahood, Casey (August 21, 1999). "Eaton's prepares to close for good Chain unveils plan to wind down and liquidate stock". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. p. A1.
- ^ "A family history". Tanguay.
- ^ Patterson, Craig (January 26, 2015). "Holt Renfrew Closes Three Locations as it Embarks on $300 Million Expansion".
- ^ "Miracle Mart advertisement page". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. October 1, 1966. p. 6.
- ^ "M advertisement". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. December 1, 1990. p. A19.
- ^ Patterson, Craig (March 24, 2014). "Les Ailes to close Ste-Foy and Brossard stores".
- ^ Patterson, Craig (January 22, 2015). "Place Ste-Foy to Undergo $50 Million Redevelopment".
- ^ "Our Story". Simons.