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|location = {{nowrap|5401, boulevard des Galeries}}<br>[[Quebec City]], [[Quebec]]<br>G2K 1N4
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|opening_date = August 19, 1981 <ref name="opening"/>
|developer = Développements Iberville
|manager = [[Oxford Properties]]
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'''Galeries de la Capitale''' is a [[shopping mall]] located in the Lebourgneuf neighbourhood of [[Les Rivières, Quebec City|Les Rivières]] borough, in [[Quebec City]], [[Quebec]], Canada.<ref>[https://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/apropos/gouvernance/conseils-arrondissement/lesrivieres/index.aspx L'Arrondissement des Rivières : un équilibre étonnant!], ville de Québec, Retrieved 30 April 2018.</ref>
Les Galeries de la Capitale has 280 stores and 35 [[restaurant]]s.<ref name=nous>[https://www.galeriesdelacapitale.com/special/ Galeries de la Capitale] Retrieved 30 April 2018.</ref> The anchors are [[Hudson's Bay (retailer)|
Les Galeries de la Capitale is the largest mall in the city with {{convert|1500000|sqft|m2|1}}.<ref name=nous/> It is also the infrastructure in Quebec City with the highest tax value at $320 million in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|author=Reid, Jancimon|url=http://www2.canoe.com/cgi-bin/imprimer.cgi?id=323149|title=Quels sont les édifices les plus chers à Québec?|trans-title=What are the most expensive buildings in Quebec?|publisher=Webfin Argent|date=24 October 2007|accessdate=30 April 2018}}</ref>
==History==
Les Galeries de la Capitale was the idea of businessman Marcel Adams. The mall was inaugurated in 1981 in a deserted part of the city on a field of {{convert|102|ha|acre|}}.<ref name=nous/> At the time the mall was owned at 50% by Les Développements Iberville (the real estate company of Marcel Adams), at 25% by Eaton Properties (the real estate company of [[Eaton's]]), and at 25% by Markborough Properties (the real estate company of the [[Hudson's Bay Company]]). Upon its opening with 190 stores, the anchors were [[Eaton's|Eaton]], [[Hudson's Bay (retailer)|
1988 saw the opening of the indoor amusement park ''Mega-Parc'', the second largest of its kind in [[Canada]] after [[West Edmonton Mall]].<ref name=nous/> That same year, the first annual [[Children's Miracle Network|Opération Enfant Soleil]] [[telethon]] was broadcast from les Galeries de la Capitale and raised $1.8 million for the Centre Hospitalier de l'Université Laval (CHUL).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fr.canoe.ca/divertissement/telemedias/nouvelles/archives/2007/06/20070603-072230.html|language=fr|title=Objectif: 15 M $|trans-title=Goal: $15 million|newspaper=[[Le Journal de Québec]]|date=3 June 2007|accessdate=30 April 2018}}</ref><ref>[https://www.operationenfantsoleil.ca/en/qui-sommes-nous/a-propos/ History], Opération Enfant Soleil, Retrieved 30 April 2018.</ref>
Eaton went bankrupt in 1999 and its location at Galeries de la Capitale was the sole store in the province that was acquired by [[Sears Canada]]. The store was converted into the Sears banner without ever closing down. <ref>https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/sears-buys-eaton-s-name-eight-stores-1.188722</ref>
The mall was sold on December 1, 2005 for $358 million to a consortium consisting of [[Canada Pension Plan]] (80%); Osmington, an investment firm in Toronto (10%); and Westerkirk, a Toronto real estate firm (10%). [[Redcliff Realty Management]] was hired to manage the mall.<ref name=nous/>
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