Royalmount to open this week
Royalmount opened for the media Tuesday and will be opening to the public this Thursday with half the retail open and not a single residential space built.
La Presse’s Marie-Ève Fournier tells us what the media visit was like.
Journalists on a junket also report on the mall: CBC, which also offers a video, CTV, the Gazette, La Presse.
CBC has a what you need to know with everything except why anyone needs Gucci.
PO 08:44 on 2024-09-04 Permalink
Excited to see the mall’s entire roof covered in trees and plants and greenery. That’s what the concept designs showed, right? Right?!
bob 12:44 on 2024-09-04 Permalink
You can wander down the road to see its future – Decarie Square.
CE 13:40 on 2024-09-04 Permalink
Decarie Square (along with Les Cours Mont-Royal) is what I always think of when imagining the future of this place.
Robert H 14:01 on 2024-09-04 Permalink
As far as building the residential component, I’m sure Carbonleo is pretty confident they can wait-out VMR’s current administration. The novelty factor will make Royalmount a success for at least the next few months. I just wonder how it can succeed long term. There is no lack of places to shop in Montreal. Rockland is just up the road (though maybe for not much longer?). Andrew Lufty must have some great research confirming that thousands of Montrealers with the means to indulge in recreational shopping have been skipping town to leave their cash in Toronto, New York or points beyond. I wonder if it will wind up like Les Cours Mont Royal downtown, a place that was opened to similar fanfare decades ago.
Uatu 14:55 on 2024-09-04 Permalink
Yep and Les Cours also has luxury condos built on top so proximity doesn’t necessarily translate into sales, but we’ll see. I think it’s going to end up on the abandoned mall YouTube channel circuit in a decade or so.
dhomas 17:20 on 2024-09-04 Permalink
The Zara at Rockland has already closed and will move to Royalmount. Same with Michael Kors and Rudsak. Other notable recent closures (no announcements of relocation to Royalmount as of yet): Vero Moda, Stuart Weitzman, Urban Planet. The Royalmount seems to be completely replacing Rockland right now. We’ll see if the Royalmount itself suffers the same fate in a few years.
jeather 18:00 on 2024-09-04 Permalink
I’m vaguely curious, but until now the website didn’t have a list of stores or a map, and even now it’s not clear to me which of the stores/restaurants are actually open and which will open soon.
MarcG 07:03 on 2024-09-05 Permalink
Here it is https://www.royalmount.com/en/directory
jeather 10:46 on 2024-09-05 Permalink
Thank you! Yesterday the directory did not look like that.
dhomas 12:13 on 2024-09-05 Permalink
Yes, I was basing myself of press releases for my info. The official directory seemingly released today is even more dire for Rockland.
Jack & Jones, Massimo Dutti, La Vie en Rose, Ernest, Bikini Village, M/2, H&M, Aldo, Browns, L’Occitane, Sephora, Yves Rocher, Industria, Swarovski, GIO, Pandora, all also have stores at Rockland. But for how long?
jeather 12:37 on 2024-09-05 Permalink
I am disappointed that I don’t see a bookstore there. My bank account, perhaps less so.
JP 20:54 on 2024-09-05 Permalink
I was hoping for a bookstore too. I work in a building next door, though I’m currently on vacation so haven’t checked out the mall yet.