Complexe Les Ailes [SEP] inception
redevelopment work between 2000 and 2002, including gutting and complete redesign of the interior, this flagship of the Montreal retail scene was transformed into the building now known as Complexe Les Ailes and 1500 University.
In 2018, the Complex Les Ailes name has disappeared, it will restore the historic Eaton name back to what once was Montreal's flagship Eaton's building.
Tenants.
Les Ailes de la Mode store was the centre's main retailer which occupied one third of the total area, but Les Ailes de la Mode
It had direct access to Montreal's "underground city" and the McGill metro station. Along with Place Montreal Trust and the Montreal Eaton Centre, Complexe Les Ailes constituted Ivanhoe Cambridge's self-branded Sh3pping trio of shopping malls.
A bronze statue of hockey player Maurice Richard and a three floors high tableau made by fine arts enamel painter Bernard Séguin Poirier are at the former Complexe Les Ailes.
The mall owner, Ivanhoé Cambridge, announced in March 2014 that it would merge the Complexe Les Ailes with the neighbouring Montreal