Carrefour Laval (corporately styled as "CF Carrefour Laval") is a superregional shopping mall in Laval, Quebec, Canada. It is located in the Chomedey neighbourhood of the city at the intersection of Laurentian Autoroute (A-15) and Autoroute Jean-Noël-Lavoie (A-440). At 115478 m2, it is both the largest enclosed shopping centre in the Greater Montreal area and the largest mall operating on a single floor in all of Quebec. Virtually untouched by the ongoing decline of indoor malls, it typically ranks among the top shopping centres in Quebec for its number of visitors as well as sales per square foot and has been home to many retail firsts in the province.

Stores

The mall has three anchor stores: Hudson's Bay, Simons and Rona L'Entrepôt. Various other stores, boutiques and restaurants are represented in the mall.

History

Planning for a new mall (1969-1973)

Construction of the mall was announced on February 27, 1969, by Steinberg's and Eaton's. The consortium announced that a 150-store mall would be built on a 20000000 sqft property next to the Laurentian Autoroute, subject to the construction of the necessary infrastructure by the newly formed city of Laval. Construction was intended to start in 1971 but the project had been delayed after a zoning bylaw proposed by mayor Jacques Tétreault, that would effectively have given the Carrefour Laval consortium a monopoly over the development of the proposed downtown core of Laval, was challenged by the opposition and by members of his own party who founded his idea to be discriminatory and too restrictive towards other businesses. Carrefour Laval finally broke ground the following year and undertaken by Fairview Corporation which had previously developed the shopping malls Fairview Pointe-Claire and Galeries d'Anjou.

Timeline

Transit accessibility

Non-local car traffic to the mall is mainly accessible via the two major highways that border it: Highway 15 and Highway 440. Additionally, it is served by public transit via the STL, which has its EXO bus terminal located across from the mall, with bus service that connects to the Montreal Metro (via the terminus of the orange line in Laval).