are Super C and Walmart. The mall is made of approximately 45 stores occupying of rentable space. The mall has two banks: Bank of Montreal and National Bank of Canada. The mall officially inaugurated on May 25, 1971 though its stores had gradually began opening their doors since May 19th. It opened with 50 commerces and two large department stores, Zellers and Bonimart, each occupying an area of 100,000 square feet. The shopping mall as a whole was 300,000 square feet and was owned by Marcel Adams. At its opening, Place Desormeaux was the largest mall in the South Shore as well as the fourth in the Montreal area after Fairview Pointe-Claire, Galeries d'Anjou and Place Versailles. Tenants in the 1970s included Steinberg's, the Bank of Montreal, Banque Canadienne Nationale, Reitmans, J B Lefebvre and Laura Secord Chocolates. Place Desormeaux began a renovation project in spring 1986 which was completed in the fall within the same year. A notable consequence of this renovation was the reduction of the size of the Bonimart store whose remaining anchor space was converted into a mall section for 15 to 20 new shops. This increased Place Desormeaux's number of tenants to 70 even if its total area remained the same. In April 1991, Zellers announced the rebranding into its nameplate of 46 Towers/Bonimart stores. Since there was already a Zellers store in the mall, the Bonimart at Place Desormeaux was closed. Its closing greatly decreased consumer traffic in the section of the mall it was located to the point that by the mid-1990s there was not a single shop left around where used to be Bonimart. In 1997, that part of Place Desormeaux was demolished and rebuilt with a complete new design to welcome the current Super C. The Steinberg grocery chain went bankrupt in 1992. Unlike most Steinberg locations, the one at Place Desormeaux was not sold and was closed outright instead. A small grocery chain Esposito took over the lease. Esposito in turn closed in 1996, opening the way for department store Winners to install itself in the mall on August 22, 1996. After operating for some 10 years, Winners closed around late 2006/early 2007. The space is now home to a branch of the SAAQ and the Longueuil Local Employment Centre, both of which are part of the Government of Quebec. After 40 years in operation, Zellers permanently closed its doors