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Complexe Les Ailes, Canada
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677 Rue Sainte-Catherine OMontréal
QC H3B 5K4
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Complexe Les Ailes was formerly the name of a shopping centre located in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada at 677 Sainte-Catherine Street West, at the corner of University Street.The 11 floors multipurpose property currently houses an office component of 550,000 sq ft (51,000 m2) known under the name 1500 University on the upper floors, as well as a retail gallery of 225,000 sq ft (20,900 m2) with more than 60 stores on its three first floors.
The former Complexe Les Ailes mall has been visited by over 11 million shoppers every year.
It had direct access to Montreal's "underground city" and the McGill metro station. Along with Place Montreal Trust and the Montreal Eaton Centre, Complexe Les Ailes constituted Ivanhoe Cambridge's self-branded Sh3pping trio of shopping malls.A bronze statue of hockey player Maurice Richard and a three floors high tableau made by fine arts enamel painter Bernard Séguin Poirier are at the former Complexe Les Ailes.
The mall owner, Ivanhoé Cambridge, announced in March 2014 that it would merge the Complexe Les Ailes with the neighbouring Montreal Eaton Centre mall, and the newly merged complex will be renamed. However it was later decided the former Complexe Les Ailes space would just be used to expand the Montreal Eaton Centre, and preserve the latter's name. The two malls will be renovated so that they will have the same "look and feel" once merged. This change will restore the Eaton's name back to very same building that once housed Montreal's flagship Eaton's department store.