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This article is about a shopping centre in Montreal. For other Eaton Centres, see Eaton Centre.
Montreal Eaton Centre 
Atrium of Montreal Eaton CentreLocation Montreal, Quebec, Canada Address 705 Saint-Catherine Street West; Montreal, QC; H3B 4G5 Opening date 1991 Management Cadillac Fairview Owner Cadillac Fairview No. of stores and services 175 Total retail floor area 26,941.9 m2 (290,000 sq ft) Parking Metropolitain Parking (492 spaces underground) No. of floors 5 Website www.centreeatondemontreal.com The Montreal Eaton Centre (French: Le Centre Eaton Montréal) is a shopping mall located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and the largest in downtown Montreal. It is located in the heart of Montreal underground.
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Location
The entrance to the Centre Eaton on Saint Catherine Street, Montreal, Canada
Montreal Eaton Centre is located on Sainte Catherine Street, one of Montreal's primary shopping streets, and is adjacent to the former Eaton's department store (now a shopping and office complex known as the Complexe Les Ailes). The centre is connected to McGill metro and the underground city. Its main entrance is on the north side of Saint Catherine Street, just east of Place Montreal Trust.
History
The site that the Montreal Eaton Centre occupies was previously the Les Terrasses which officially opened in 1976, and occupied the site from 1975 to its closure in 1987. As with the existing mall, it was connected to the metro, underground city and the (former) Eaton's department store, however differed in many respects with the current Eaton Centre. In particular the mall layout was a triangular spiral, with gradually rising interconnected floors, approximately 45 feet (14 m) high in total. Though it had three escalators, at each point of the triangle, patrons could gradually walk to the top of the mall.[1] Floors were colour coded and the mall was adorned with trees, plants and ivy. It housed 140 stores[2], each facing towards the center of the triangle. It was demolished after only one decade of use, and following extensive construction, reopened as the Montreal Eaton Centre in 1991.
Les Terrasses/Montreal Eaton Centre was managed by Rouses Quebec Corporation Development and York Hannover Development (from 1978 to 1993). In September 1997, after the demise of Services de Gestion CEM Inc., Cadillac Fairview Corporation Ltd. took over the shopping centre.
On July 1, 2000, Ivanhoe Cambridge (then known simply as Ivanhoe) acquired the mall through an exchange of assets. Cadillac Fairview ceded the Montreal Eaton Centre in exchange of Ivanhoe's stakes in Carrefour Laval and Promenades St-Bruno. Viacom sold the Famous Players chain to Cineplex Entertainment in 2005. Under the deal, the Famous Players location at the mall was not sold and was closed instead.
See also
- Eaton Centre
- List of shopping malls in Montreal
References
External links
Categories:- Eaton's
- Shopping malls established in 1991
- Shopping malls in Montreal
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