Place Sainte-Foy

Shopping mall in Quebec, Canada

Place Sainte-Foy

Location| Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Coordinates| 46°46′25″N 71°16′44″W﻿ / ﻿46.7735°N 71.279°W﻿ / 46.7735; -71.279
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.placestefoy.com/en

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.

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]

## See also

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* Laurier Québec
* Galeries de la Capitale
* Fleur de Lys centre commercial
* List of largest enclosed shopping malls in Canada

## References

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1. ^ "Place Ste-Foy". CityKnown.com. Archived from the original on August 28, 2014. Retrieved March 13, 2022.
2. ^ a b "Place Ste-Foy celebrates 60 years of success, avant-garde and experiences". Ivanhoé Cambridge. November 27, 2018.
3. ^ "60th anniversary of Place Ste-Foy". Place Ste-Foy. Ivanhoé Cambridge.
4. ^ "Ivanhoe Corp. advertisement". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. April 6, 1957. p. 37.
5. ^ "'Converted' centres up sales shopping centres". Montreal Gazette. November 10, 1971. p. 29.
6. ^ a b "Ivanhoe Cambridge sells 50% stake in 6 shopping centres, office building". CBC News. July 6, 2004. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
7. ^ "Ivanhoé Cambridge acquires 100% ownership of four shopping centres in Quebec, Nova Scotia and British Columbia". Ivanhoé Cambridge. August 2, 2012. Archived from the original on August 26, 2012.
8. ^ "Eaton's advertising". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. September 10, 1975. p. 46.
9. ^ 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.
10. ^ "A family history". Tanguay.
11. ^ Patterson, Craig (January 26, 2015). "Holt Renfrew Closes Three Locations as it Embarks on $300 Million Expansion".
12. ^ "Miracle Mart advertisement page". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. October 1, 1966. p. 6.
13. ^ "M advertisement". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. December 1, 1990. p. A19.
14. ^ Patterson, Craig (March 24, 2014). "Les Ailes to close Ste-Foy and Brossard stores".
15. ^ Patterson, Craig (January 22, 2015). "Place Ste-Foy to Undergo $50 Million Redevelopment".
16. ^ "Our Story". Simons.

## External links

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* Official website