Fairview Pointe-Claire
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Fairview Pointe-Claire (corporately styled as "CF Fairview Pointe-Claire") is the largest shopping mall in the West Island and one of the biggest on the Island of Montreal. It is located in the city of Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada, at the intersection of Trans-Canada Highway and Saint-Jean Boulevard.
Fairview Pointe-Claire attracts 8 million visitors each year.<ref name="May 6, 2021"/> 175 stores occupy about Template:Convert spread on two levels of shopping space.<ref name="2021 profile"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is one of Cadillac Fairview's oldest shopping malls. The major tenants are Winners, HomeSense, Sports Experts/Atmosphere, La Maison Simons and Best Buy.
History
Fairview Pointe-Claire was inaugurated on August 12, 1965 with anchors Simpsons, Steinberg's, Eaton's and Pascal's.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Opening">Template:Cite news</ref> It had exactly 70 tenants.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Notable mid-sized tenants included Holt Renfrew, Ogilvy's and Woolworth's.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Fairview Pointe-Claire was a single level mall at the time; only tenants Simpsons, Eaton's, W.H. Smith Books, and Pascal's had two floors. Although they initially had only two floors, Simpsons and Eaton's were both built with the capacity to each house a third level in the future.<ref name="Aug 11, 1965">Template:Cite news</ref> Simpson's was located on the east end of the mall and had on the parking its own auto centre with an Esso.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Eaton's was in the west end and back then used the English name (with the letter "s") for the store signage of this location.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
At the time of its opening, Fairview Pointe-Claire was the first enclosed shopping mall in the West Island, the first shopping centre in Quebec with either a Simpsons or Eaton's store, as well as the second largest mall in all of Canada.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Simpsons purchased a replica of Michelangelo's Statue of David and installed it in the mall's hallway, a move that was met with criticism.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 1985, Fairview Pointe-Claire was extensively converted to a two-level shopping mall whose renovation was completed on August 14, almost to the day of its 20th anniversary.<ref name="expansion">Template:Cite news</ref> The mall went from 88 to 201 stores and its first floor was completely renovated.<ref name="expansion"/> Among the additions was the introduction of the food court.
Simpsons was taken over by The Bay on January 29, 1989, with no layoffs in the store.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Pascal's declared bankruptcy in 1991.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
A Sears store of Template:Convert opened on August 12, 1992.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> It was a new construction built on the south side of the shopping centre.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Eaton's closed on October 17, 1999 after 34 years in the mall.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Sears relocated in 2001 to Eaton's former location.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="21 Mar 2001"/> Sears's original location is now home to HomeSense, Decathlon, Sports Experts/Atmosphere, Imaginaire and Columbus Cafe & Co. Winners, Renaud-Bray, Old Navy and Starbucks Coffee, who were at one time in the space where Sears was, have since relocated to other parts of the shopping centre.
On July 26, 2001, Déco Découverte opened one of its first two Quebec stores in Super C's former space.<ref name="24 July 2001">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="21 Mar 2001">Template:Cite news</ref>
A Best Buy opened in the fall of 2005.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> It was built in the place of the torn down Pascal's store, itself having been converted from 1992 to 1998 into an Aventure Électronique Superstore, competing against nearby Future Shop in Complexe Pointe-Claire . Like Aventure Électronique (but unlike Pascal's), Best Buy can only be accessed from the outside.
It was announced in September 2017 that the Sears at Fairview Pointe-Claire was targeted for closure along with nine other stores all located outside of Quebec.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Pointe-Claire location closed in December 2017.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref> The first level was repurposed for dining with the food court moving into the space on April 1, 2021.<ref name="May 6, 2021">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The second and third floors of the location were replaced a year later by Simons on May 5, 2022.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The old food court was subdivided for Dollarama and Linen Chest.<ref name="May 6, 2021"/>
Hudson's Bay officially closed its doors along with all their remaining stores in June 2025.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Pointe-Claire store was one of six Hudson's Bay locations in the country that the company had attempted to keep open.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Ownership
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Fairview Pointe-Claire was originally the joint property of Simpsons Limited and Cemp Investments, and managed by Fairview Shopping Centres Ltd (a subsidiary of Cemp Investments).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The mall was built by Cadillac Development Corporation.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 1974, Cadillac Development Corporation and Fairview Corporation merge to form Cadillac Fairview.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> From then on, Fairview Pointe-Claire was the joint property of Cadillac Fairview and Simpsons.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 1984, Markborough Properties replaced Simpsons as co-owner of the mall.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Cadillac Fairview retained its share of the mall.<ref name="expansion"/>
In 1997, Markborough Properties was swallowed by Cambridge Shopping Centres which merge in 2001 with Ivanhoe Corporation to form Ivanhoé Cambridge.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2021, Cadillac Fairview swapped the 50% share it held in Galeries d'Anjou for Ivanhoé Cambridge's in Fairview Pointe-Claire to become the sole owner of the mall.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Public transportation
The north parking lot of Fairview Pointe-Claire is home to Fairview bus terminus of the Société de transport de Montréal. A new light metro station, Fairview–Pointe-Claire station of the Réseau express métropolitain, is under construction next to the mall.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
| style="background: #Template:Rcr; font-size:100%; color:#FFFFFF;"colspan="4"|[[Société de transport de Montréal|Template:Ifsubst style="color:#FFFFFF">Société de transport de Montréal]] | |||
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| No. | Route | Connects to | Service times / notes |
| Template:Rint | Alfred-Nobel | Template:Plainlist | Weekdays only |
| Template:Rint | Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue | Template:Plainlist | Daily |
| Template:Rint | Saint-Charles / Saint-Jean | Template:Plainlist | Daily
Circular route from Terminus Fairview, northbound on schedules is northbound on Saint-Jean and southbound on Saint-Charles and vice versa |
| Template:Rint | Dawson | Template:Plainlist | Daily |
| Template:Rint | Carson | Template:Plainlist | Daily |
| Template:Rint | Cardinal | Template:Plainlist | Daily
Connects to Montréal-Trudeau International Airport |
| Template:Rint | Gouin | Template:Plainlist | Daily |
| Template:Rint | Roger-Pilon | Template:Plainlist | Daily |
| Template:Rint | Jacques-Bizard | Daily | |
| Template:Rint | Brunswick | Template:Plainlist | Daily |
| Template:Rint | Henri-Bourassa | Template:Plainlist | Daily |
| Template:Rint | Transcanadienne | Template:Plainlist | Weekdays only |
| Template:Rint | Anse-à-l'Orme | Template:Plainlist | Daily |
| Template:Rint | Antoine-Faucon | Weekdays only | |
| Template:Rint | Chemin Sainte-Marie | Weekdays only | |
| Template:Rint | Hymus | Template:Plainlist | Weekdays only |
| Template:Rint | Express John Abbott |
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Weekdays and Weekend service is summer months only, which the route is extended to Zoo Ecomuseum and Montreal Aviation Museum |
| Template:Rint | Express Pierrefonds | Template:Plainlist | Daily |
| Template:Rint | Express Antoine-Faucon | Template:Plainlist | Weekdays only |
| style="background: #Template:Rcr; font-size:100%; color:#FFFFFF;" colspan="4" |Template:Colored link | |||
| No. | Route | Connects to | Service times / notes |
| Template:Rint | Gare Vaudreuil / John-Abbott / Pointe-Claire | Template:Plainlist | Weekdays only |
| Template:Rint | Gare Vaudreuil / Auto Plaza Brunswick | Template:Plainlist | Weekdays, peak only |
| Template:Rint | Gérald-Godin / Pointe-Claire | Template:Plainlist | Weekdays, peak only |
See also
- List of largest shopping malls in Canada
- List of malls in Montreal
- List of shopping malls in Canada
- Pointe-Claire