One of Canada’s oldest shopping centres will be shuttered entirely and consumers will have the opportunity to shop closing-out sales in the coming months.
Prior to the pandemic, Le Boulevard, which encompasses around 400,000sq ft of retail space, saw more than 8 million annual visitors. With tenants such as Canadian Tire, Metro Plus Supermarket, Urban Planet, Jean Coutu, SAQ (Liquor Store), Dollarama, and Ardène among others.
After closing, the entire shopping centre property will be expropriated for the expansion of Montreal’s rapid transit ‘Blue Line’ which will extend to the Galeries D’Anjou shopping centre which is located on the north part of the Island of Montreal.
Initially, plans were in place to expropriate part of the shopping centre property however in February, it was decided that given the challenges associated with operating on only part of the site, it made more sense to take over the entire property.
