@spmarshall: You're right, Simon's would be great there. Simon's is a great department store. Their store on Ste-Catherine, where Simpson's used to be is great. So is their Carrefour Laval store. They have really slow growth though, only three in Quebec city, three in Montreal, and one in Sherbrooke. I don't think they'd want to overexpand like their Quebec cousin, Les Ailes de la Mode did. They had plans for Montreal downtown (where Eaton was), Ottawa Bayshore, and Fairview Pointe-Claire all at the same time, and were even looking at a Toronto store at one point. The Ottawa store opened, in a poor choice location (away from their traditional Francophone base), Montreal downtown was too big and its location in the Centre Les Ailes was too far from the street, and they shelved the Pointe-Claire store. As a result of the money pit of the downtown store, they closed the slow-sales Ottawa store, and turned the Montreal store from five floors to two. Anyway, I guess there's no point to that cautionary tale, except Simons'll have to be really sure it will do well before they expand.
I have doubts Winners will be filling up so many levels.
@adma, but what building was there before?
@Ed007Toronto, I've had Houston's before (they used to have on in Gloucester, ON, and they have one in Vaughan Mills). Good ribs. But not as good as Bâton Rouge.
