Royalmount, three months later
La Presse has a photo of Royalmount three months after the grand opening, and photos comparing scenes at Carrefour Laval to similar, but emptier, settings at Royalmount, including the parking lots.
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Blork 12:27 on 2024-12-09 Permalink
Frankly, that makes me want to shop at Royalmount.
dhomas 17:22 on 2024-12-09 Permalink
I think having paid parking was dissuading many potential shoppers. I didn’t even know they had made parking free until I read that article (not that it will entice me to go to Royalmount, anyway). Many others might not know, either.
It’s a 15 minute drive from Royalmount to Fairview, and they have free parking. You might not find your car (or your dog!) when you get back to the lot, but it’s free! /s
yasymbologist 18:04 on 2024-12-09 Permalink
simply entering a strip mall like this gives me fatigue.I guess it’s because I don`t have a carefree mindset to enjoys such places.
thomas 19:07 on 2024-12-09 Permalink
I’m suprised not to read a paragraph blaming the lack of shoppers on Valerie Plante or bike paths.
Robert H 15:09 on 2024-12-10 Permalink
In the La Presse article, Andrew Lufty, CEO of developer Carbonleo explains that the parking fees were meant to discourage commuters who might use the Royalmount parking lots and the covered passageway over The Decarie as a park-and-ride resource for métro de la Savanne. But unlike a downtown location, people driving to shopping malls expect free parking and plenty of it. Too bad Carbonleo didn’t expand on its Four Seasons-Holt Renfrew Ogilvy project and return some of these upmarket retailers to a part of the city where they used to be more concentrated.
jeather 17:43 on 2024-12-10 Permalink
Looks like they’ve learned, because now it’s 4 hours free parking.
Jean Naimard 18:14 on 2024-12-11 Permalink
It’s very easily accessible by Métro, I don’t understand what the problem is.
To be fair, Québec should forcibly remerge Mont-Royal into Montréal (and split it half way between Parc-Ex and Côte-des-Neiges boroughs along Graham boulevard) just so we can get rid of that horrible rhodesian mindset of them.
And level Mont-Royal city hall to make sure it won’t ever be ressurected (since we can’t drive a spike through it’s heat).
Ian 19:23 on 2024-12-11 Permalink
If you’re not the jeannaimard from reddit, you sure as heck sound like him 😉 Rhodesians, blokes, etc. – you’re like a time machine. I feel like I should be smoking in a bar while I read this haha