Place Versailles
Place Versailles is a shopping mall located at the corner of Sherbrooke Street East and Highway 25 in the Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. With its 225 stores, it is the largest enclosed shopping centre on the Island of Montreal. Its anchors are Canadian Tire, Maxi, Winners/HomeSense and Bureau en Gros. Most of the mall is one storey high, but a section of the mall, which was added in the 1980s, has two floors. Place Versailles is situated next to the Radisson metro station and is less than 2 km south of the Galeries d'Anjou mall. History Place Versailles officially opened on November 7, 1963 with 30 stores. Upon its opening, Place Versailles was the first enclosed shopping mall in the Montreal area. Its 30 stores included Steinberg, Miracle Mart and Greenberg. There was also in the parking the Cinema Versailles with its two theatres, one for English films and the other for French ones. The stores of Place Versailles totalized 350,000 square feet and the land of the complex was 2,000,000 square foot. Today, the original section of Place Versailles can be recognized as the corridor of Canadian Tire and Maxi. Pascal's opened a new store on August