Saks not coming to Montreal’s downtown

Two years ago it was rumoured that Saks Off Fifth Avenue would open a store downtown, a plan cast in doubt earlier this year. Now the no-Saks story is definite; although current reports say that French sports equipment store Decathlon will open in the Eaton Centre instead, it was not there, but in a section of the Bay facing de Maisonneuve, that Saks was originally expected to open.

I have a suspicion that Saks may open here later, in the Royalmount mall. We’ll see.

(QMI foresees a traffic nightmare on the Met when that mall opens.)