Carrefour Laval (corporately styled as "CF Carrefour Laval") is a super regional shopping mall in Laval, Quebec, Canada. It is located in the Chomedey neighbourhood of the city at the intersection of Autoroute des Laurentides (Laurentian Expressway) (A-15) and Autoroute Jean-Noël-Lavoie (A-440). At , it is both the largest enclosed shopping centre in the Montreal area and the largest mall operating on a single floor in all of Quebec. Virtually untouched by the ongoing decline of indoor malls, it typically ranks among the top shopping centres in Quebec for its number of visitors as well as sales per square foot and has been home to many retail firsts in the province. Stores The mall has three anchor stores: Hudson's Bay, Simons and Rona L'Entrepôt. Various other stores, boutiques and restaurants are represented in the mall. Carrefour Laval has the reputation of being a gate for international retail chains looking to expand in Quebec and is one of the best performing shopping malls in the province in terms of sales per square foot. Several established American retailers opened their first Quebec store at Carrefour Laval notably Apple Store, Bath & Body Works, Build-A-Bear Workshop, Crate and Barrel and Victoria's Secret. Non-American international retailers that had their start at Carrefour Laval include Armani Exchange and Le Creuset. History Planning for a new mall (1969-1973) Construction of the mall was announced on February 27, 1969, by Steinberg's and Eaton's. The consortium announced that a 150-store mall would be built on a property next to the Laurentian Expressway, subject to the construction of the necessary infrastructure by the newly formed city of Laval. The project had been delayed after a zoning bylaw proposed by mayor Jacques Tétreault that would effectively have given the Carrefour Laval consortium a monopoly over the development of the proposed downtown core of Laval was challenged by the opposition and by members of his own party, who supported the construction of a second mall in the immediate vicinity by the Oshawa Group. A zoning amendment proposed by opposition councillor Lucien Paiement (later mayor), which allowed the Oshawa Group to build its own mall was adopted. By then, Morgan's and Simpson's had joined the Carrefour Laval consortium. However, Morgan's dropped out, preferring instead to anchor an expansion of the existing Centre Laval, just away on the other side of Expressway 15. Timeline 1974: Carrefour Laval opens with major tenants Simpsons, Eaton's,