The shopping mall is directly connected to the Atwater metro station, which joins the building by a short tunnel with the adjacent Dawson College, and by a longer one adjoins nearby Westmount Square.

[6] The Miracle Mart store occupied all three levels of the shopping mall at 270,000 square feet, making it the largest of the retailer's locations at the time.

[8] Only the shopping mall opened in April 1967 but it was already decided back then that office and high-rise apartment buildings would be added in subsequent phases.

The federal government, who was tenant of the building when the fire occurred, sued on August 18, 1988 the then-owner for $585,000, accusing them of being negligent and careless in the maintenance of the Alexis Nihon Complex.

[13] Alexis Nihon also previously housed Miracle Mart (later becoming an M-Store, a three-screen cinema operated by Cineplex Odeon, Zellers and Steinberg's supermarket.