Cavendish Mall
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The Cavendish Mall is a shopping centre in a suburb of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Built in 1973, it is located in Cote-Saint Luc at the corner of Cavendish Boulevard and Kildare Road. Popular stores include IGA (renamed from Steinberg's), Pharmaprix, Caplan Duval, Le Magasin Juif TJS-The Jewish Store,Staples Business Depot (in Quebec the chain is known as Bureau En Gros), and The Source by Circuit City. There is also a food court, with restaurants such as Subway, McDonald's, and Pizza Donini (now closed), in addition to an eight-screen movie theater Fortune Cinemas. The mall is about 500,000 square feet (46,451.5 m²), and a 25-foot (7.62 m) high skylight is featured at center court. Free outdoor customer parking is provided. In the past 15 or so years, the Cavendish Mall has seen a serious decline, with such major stores as Consumers Distributing, Eaton's, MusicWorld, Canadian Tire, and the Gap having closed.
The 1977 David Cronenberg movie Rabid, starring porn star Marilyn Chambers, featured scenes shot in the Cavendish Mall.
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In August 2007, an announcement was made that a partial demolition will occur in order to reduce the size of the mall and consolidate remaining tenants in one location (at present, the Cavedish mall essentially can be classified as a dead mall with its high number of vacancies spread out through the building). The plan is to demolish the south section of the mall and sell the land to housing developers. If approved by the city of Cote-Saint-Luc, the demolition could occur before the end of 2007.
