This is a list of small shopping centres (mostly neighbourhood shopping centres) in the island of Montreal. A neighbourhood shopping centre is an industry term in North America for a shopping centre with of gross leasable area, typically anchored by a supermarket and/or large drugstore. Large neighbourhood shopping centres (a.k.a. community centres) are slightly larger centres with general merchandise or convenience-oriented offerings, typically with a "wider range of apparel and other soft goods, usually configured in a straight line as a strip, or laid out in an L or U shape".
Baie d'Urfé Plaza Baie d'Urfé is a small strip mall located in Baie d'Urfé, Quebec, Canada, on 90 Morgan Street across from Quebec Autoroute 20. The shopping centre is currently owned by First Capital Realty and is anchored by Maxi. It opened in 1967 but was destroyed by a fire in 1980. It was rebuilt and reopened in 1981.
Beaconsfield Centre commercial Beaconsfield is a small indoor shopping mall (one of the smallest in the West Island) located in Beaconsfield, Quebec, Canada, on 50 St. Charles Blvd. across from Quebec Autoroute 20. The anchor of this mall is a Metro Plus.
Beaconsfield opened in 1961 as an outdoor shopping centre. In 1973, it was turned into an enclosed shopping mall and the number of stores jumped from 23 to 35.
In 1992 its primary tenants were Steinberg and a Canadian Tire and the former became Metro on June 8, 1992. In 1995, Canadian Tire relocated to a new standalone store in Kirkland, Quebec, while Dollarama, Wimgym and Royal Bank took over the lease.
Formerly an Ivanhoe shopping centre, Beaconsfield was sold in 2002 to First Capital Realty by Ivanhoé Cambridge.
Royal Bank moved to a new standalone location near the mall in 2008 and the mall's northern half was demolished (except for the former Metro store) and was replaced entirely with glass. Metro Plus replaced the former Canadian Tire store in December 2008.
Côte Saint-Luc Cavendish Mall
Cavendish Mall (also known as Quartier Cavendish) is an indoor shopping centre in Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec, Canada. It includes a food court, a multiplex movie theatre and a medical clinic: the CLSC René Cassin. A small highrise office-building is adjoined to the mall's southern half. Redeveloped in 2011, the mall was reduced to almost half its original size.
David Cronenberg's 1977 film Rabid features scenes shot in the mall.
The mall has experienced declining patronage over the past decade due to an aging population. Another serious blow was the closing of its two main anchors: Eaton's and Canadian Tire. Other notable closures included Caplan Duval, The Source, Gap, Consumers Distributing, Music World, Steinberg's, Miracle Mart, Staples, Cineplex theater and restaurants: Pumpernicks, Cattleman's and Katerina's. With the southern half of the mall vacant it had been considered a dead mall throughout the 2000s. In 2010, a large portion of the mall was demolished to make way for a new residential development.
Timeline 1973: Mall opens. Anchors are Eaton's, Warshaw's, Steinberg's and Miracle Mart 1978: Warshaws closes; becomes a Canadian Tire : Miracle Mart closes; space divided to become Lupton Duval (later Caplan Duval) and Cineplex Odeon 1991: Opening of J&R Kosher Meat and Delicatessen. 1992: Steinberg's ceases operations; this store is taken over by IGA 1995: Firestone taken over by Pneus Expert. 1996: Consumers Distributing closes. 1997: Scotiabank acquires National Trust 1998: Eaton's closes; part of space becomes Superclub Videotron. 2005: Canadian Tire closes and RadioShack becomes The Source By Circuit City 2006: The Gap closes. 2007: Music World, Browns Shoes and The Source close. Dollarama opens in (part of) Canadian Tire space. 2009: Caplan Duval and Superclub Videotron close. 2010: 40% of the mall demolished to make way for residential housing development. 2011: Cavendish Mall rebranded as Quartier Cavendish. 2015: Staples closes; Econofitness gym opens in its space. 2018: McDonald's closes. 2020: Cineplex Odeon multiplex theater closes; taken over by CinéStarz Deluxe. 2022: J&R Kosher Meat and Delicatessen closes.
Consolidation and revitalization In August 2007 the owners announced a partial demolition to reduce the mall and consolidate its tenants. In August 2010 the remaining tenants were relocated to the north end of the mall. Demolition of the south end began October 2010.
In December 2010 demolition of 40% of mall was completed, effectively removing its southern end. The mall was reduced to of space (for let) with room for 55 stores and space for a small indoor children's play area. Previously the mall was approximately . Extensive reconstruction was done in the old Caplan Duval site, where the CLSC Rene Cassin is now located. The former section of the demolished mall underwent construction of roads and sidewalks along with newly built townhouses and semi-detached homes. This included the sale of 39 lots for single-family homes.
Côte Saint-Luc
Côte Saint-Luc Shopping Centre is a small indoor shopping mall in Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec, Canada. Built in 1956 by Ivanhoe, it is now operated by First Capital Realty. It was transformed into an enclosed mall in 1970.
The first anchors of the mall were a Steinberg and Zellers. Prohome eventually took place of the Zellers store in 1987. Steinberg went bankrupt in 1992, and the store was sold as an IGA store. Prohome closed in 1997, and Rona Le Quincallier took its place. That store closed in 2005. Jean Coutu, which relocated within the mall, took part of the space, and a Caplan Duval opened in part of the former Rona space in 2010. Also, in the late 2000s, IGA's store was remodelled by counting its exterior.
Since its inception, the mall has always had only two major anchors; the current ones are IGA and Jean Coutu (occupying the former Zellers/Prohome/Rona space).
A Blockbuster store opened in the late 1990s, and closed in 2011.
Décarie Square
Décarie Square is a three-story indoor shopping mall, with two floors of retail shopping and one floor of office space, located on the outskirts of Côte Saint-Luc, a city in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The mall was constructed in 1977 at a cost of over $20 million, under the ownership of Oshawa Group. Going back as far back as the mid-1980s, it has been described as a white elephant due its extremely high vacancy rate and low shopper traffic.Montreal Gazette - Plaza Doomed from the Start, November 1986 Even today, much of the space in the mall remains empty with for rent signs plastered on vacant shop windows.
The mall includes the chain store Winners-HomeSense and various independent discount and service shops. A fitness gym and a video lottery gambling bar are also situated within the mall. Government service offices of the SAAQ automobile licence bureau, Saint-Laurent Local Employment Center and Service Canada employment insurance center are also found within the mall, as well as the Décarie Medical Centre. The third floor is exclusively for rental office space.
By 2011, in an effort to re-purpose much of the vacant shopping space into a more profitable venture, the mall owner, Canpro Investments Ltd., moved ahead with a project to convert more than a fifth of the mall's retail space into a medical centre (spanning three floors) with room for doctors' offices. The construction and renovation cost was estimated at the time between $10 million and $15 million, and was started before any interested parties came forward or signed any leases; this was in essence a "build it and they will come strategy". The late David Azrieli, former head of Canpro, was quoted as saying "I'm willing to sign off that by August 2012 it will be ready and occupied."Montreal Gazette - The Changing Face of Malls, October 2011 After a slow start, by 2017, the medical center had over 20 tenants with 30,000 square feet still available to lease. The space currently includes a walk-in clinic and various specialists' and doctors' offices.
Dollard-des-Ormeaux Galeries des Sources Galeries des Sources (originally West Island Mall until 1988) is an indoor shopping mall owned by Cogir located in the bordering cities of Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec and Dorval, Quebec, Canada on Des Sources Blvd. and Quebec Autoroute 40. Popular stores include Marché Adonis, Cinemas Guzzo, Canadian Tire and Bureau en Gros. Restaurants inaccessible from the inside of the mall but with their own exterior entrance include Bellepro's, Jack Astor's, and Marathon Souvlaki, the latter occupying some of the old M Store space. Other types of businesses with no indoor mall entrance include the clinics, the Guzzo movie theatre, the Canadian Tire hardware store, and Optimum personnel.
The mall opened on October 4, 1966, and was anchored by Steinberg's and Miracle Mart. It was built by Ivanhoe Corporation which also was the original manager of the mall until January 2002.
The mall was expanded in 1986, and Steinberg moved out to the expanded space, becoming a Marché Du Jour (later Steinberg Plus in 1988 and Xtra in 1991). In addition, Miracle Mart was renamed M Store, and reducing the space of the store as well, giving part of the former Miracle Mart space to Bouclair. The Steinberg space (not counting Marché Du Jour/Steinberg Plus/Xtra) was left vacant until Canadian Tire occupied it in 1991. A mechanic centre was built as a result of expansion of the former Steinberg store that time. After Canadian Tire moved in, it kept the old Steinberg outdoor entrance, which has since been demolished.
In 1992, the Xtra store and M Store closed after Steinberg went bankrupt; Super C and Club Biz replaced the former Xtra store. Winners occupied the former M space in 1994, alongside a Club Ultima.
In 1993, the west mall entrance was discontinued in favor of a Coconuts play park (which closed in early 1999; now a dental office and pediatric medical centre).
Club Ultima closed in 1996, with a 10-screen Cinemas Guzzo occupying the old space in 1998. There is no mall entrance to Cinemas Guzzo. There was no outdoor entrance to Club Ultima, thus the indoor Club Ultima entrance became a Rubino shoe store. The Rubino shoe store moved to the old Stokes warehouse store in the early 2000s, with EconoSport occupying the old Rubino space, and it is currently used by Benix & Co.
Club Biz went bankrupt, and its previously occupied site became Bureau en Gros which officially launched on June 1, 1996 (though the store had already opened its doors before that date).
Also, Consumers Distributing left the mall in 1996, with its current tenants Corbeil Appliances occupying the first half of it in 1998. The second half was occupied by a Stokes warehouse store.
In the late 2000s, Bouclair reduced its space, and an Elixir restaurant took the other half of the former Bouclair space. Following the expansion of Canadian Tire in 2009, the mall entrance for Canadian Tire was closed, and L'Aubainerie Entrepôt took the old mall entrance.
In 2024, the Cinemas Guzzo movie theatre closed and was replaced by a CineStarz Deluxe movie theatre in October 2025.
Dorval Dorval Gardens
Dorval Gardens () is a shopping mall in the suburb of Dorval, in Montreal, Quebec, located on Dorval Avenue near Autoroute 20. It is the oldest shopping centre in the West Island and the fourth in Montreal after Norgate, Village Champlain and Le Boulevard. It was built in 1954 by Sam Steinberg and his Ivanhoe Corporation. The shopping centre was owned for more than 45 years by Ivanhoe but was sold in 2001. It is currently managed by CentreCorp Management Services Ltd. Anchor stores are Walmart, Hudson's Bay (closing in late 2021) and Maxi.