Place d'Orléans
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| Location | 110 Place d'Orléans Drive Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1C 2L9 |
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| Opening date | 1979 |
| Management | Primaris Retail REIT |
| Owner | Primaris Retail REIT |
| No. of stores and services | 175 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 3 |
| Total retail floor area | 734,477 sq ft or 68,235.1 m2 |
| Website | http://www.placedorleans.com |
Place d'Orléans is a large shopping mall in the eastern end of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in the community of Orléans. The property is about 740,000 sq ft (69,000 m2).[1] It has two large department stores (Sport Chek and Hudson's Bay) and about 175 small shops, including a food court. The Bay expanded in 1999, taking over a large section of the north side's upper level, and reducing the number of smaller shops. Other prominent shops included the Market Fresh grocery store (the company pulled out of Ontario, due to declining profits, on December 30, 2005, now Boathouse and Goodlife Fitness fill the vacated space), and, once the focus of the mall, Walmart. In early May 2006, Zellers opened a new store in the large retail space vacated by Walmart. In 2013, Zellers closed and was replaced by Target, but closed in 2015.
Built in 1979, but having expanded to its current size in 1990 and had its grand re-opening in August of same year. Place d'Orléans was one of the last enclosed malls built in Canada. Like many of its counterparts in North America, Place d'Orléans has been struggling to survive in the era of the big-box "power centres". Over the years it has seen anchors come and go, such as Eaton's, Woolco, Robinson's, Consumers Distributing and Walmart, which was replaced by Zellers. Place d'Orléans has taken on non-traditional tenants: a large portion of the second floor has been leased to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). However, RCMP is moving out of Place D'Orleans in 2015. The move is occurring in stages between July–September. No tenant is known at this time to be taking over their space in the mall. Wal-Mart has relocated to the newly developed shopping area along Innes Road, and St. Joseph Boulevard has continued to stagnate.[citation needed]
Anchors and majors
- Hudson's Bay (115,501 sq ft or 10,730.4 m2)
- The Bay Home Store (44,601 sq ft or 4,143.6 m2)
- Dollarama (10,028 sq ft or 931.6 m2)
- GoodLife Fitness (21,590 sq ft or 2,006 m2)
- Sport Chek (68,499 sq ft or 6,363.8 m2)
Former anchors
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police, closed 2015
- Target, closed 2015
- Zellers, closed 2013
- Wal-Mart, closed 2006
- Market Fresh, closed 2005
- Eaton's, closed 1999[2]
- Woolco, closed 1994
- Robinson & Co., closed 1992
References
- ^ Oxford Properties
- ^ Ladurantaye, Steven (October 9, 1999). "Eaton's closes as liquidation winds down". Ottawa Business Journal. Retrieved June 3, 2015.