Residents evacuated as nearby building totters
Forty people in the Plateau have been evacuated from their homes as one of the handsome but decrepit gray stone buildings on Esplanade near Mont-Royal showed signs of impending collapse Tuesday evening.
Background: TVA says the building has been under demolition orders for some time, but that the owner couldn’t afford the cost.
Ian 11:19 on 2019-05-22 Permalink
I have often wondered how sharing a wall with those crumbling hulks would play out for them.
Chris 08:47 on 2019-05-23 Permalink
“In 1984, the city fined the owner for failing to maintain his buildings”
It’s a metaphor for our entire society: the problem has been known forever, but we do nothing to fix it.