[2] It has 130 shops, services and department stores, including anchors Hudson's Bay, Marshall's/HomeSense, The Brick, Best Buy, Bureau en Gros, Lee Valley, Avril Supermarché Santé [fr] and Décathlon.

Centre Laval began in 1968 as a 370,000 square feet indoor shopping mall with 50 stores anchored by Famous Players theatre, Woolco and Steinberg's.

[8] Montreal Expos baseball players Ken Singleton and Terry Humphrey were present at Centre Laval on August 17 to sign autographs.

[10] Bureau en Gros acquired the lease of the bankrupt office supply chain Club Biz and inaugurated its Centre Laval store on June 1, 1996.

[17] It is one of four locations tested by Hudson's Bay as part of a pilot project where the stores are used as showrooms so that "customers can easily place online orders for products not available in-store".

[19] Centre Laval was transferred to Homburg Canada REIT in 2009 which eventually changed to Canmarc Real Estate Investment Trust in September 2011.