Thursday, May 31, 2012

5000 Taschereau


5000 Taschereau is a shopping mall located in the borough of Greenfield Park, Quebec, Canada which opened around 1983. It is located onTaschereau Boulevard, near Greenfield Park's borough limit with neighbouring Brossard. From the late 1980s and up until 2010, the mall was called Mail Carnaval and was named after Super Carnaval (the ancestor of Super C) which operated until 1991.
A Jean Coutu pharmacy was one of the original tenants, but soon moved out. American fitness chain Gold's Gym had a brief presence in the mall in the early 1990s but closed, and was eventually replaced by Famous Players movie theatre (now closed). Other notable tenants that once made business at Mail Carnaval include a Do it Center hardware store, the National Bank of Canada and Zellers.
Up until 2007, Mail Carnaval was an indoor shopping centre. As of 2002, Mail Carnaval gradually began losing its small tenants and started resembling a dead mall. In the summer of 2007, the last small tenants left the mall and, on 2009, the pedestrian main section of the mall was demolished. Only the major tenants: Super C, Dollarama, Energie Cardio and the liquidations centres of Mexx and Tommy Hilfiger are still in operation.
For a number of years and up until 2009, Mail Carnaval was the headquarters of fitness chain Nautilus Plus which was located right next to the branch of competitor Energie Cardio. However, Nautilus Plus has never operated an actual branch in the mall.
Shortly after Zellers closure in May 2010, the name of the mall was changed from Mail Carnaval to 5000 Taschereau. The portion, between Super C and Dollarama, that served as the mall's indoor corridor was demolished and turned into a parking lot.