A Chinatown homecoming
The Gazette brought a Toronto resident home to Chinatown in Montreal after developers bought the house in which he grew up, with plans to raze the area and put up a condo tower.
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DeWolf 12:40 on 2021-06-26 Permalink
We don’t yet know what Shiller and Kornbluth plan to do with the block, so it’s not accurate to say it will be replaced by a condo tower. Given the attention it has received and the sensitive nature of the site, I seriously doubt it will be razed. The city seems unlikely to issue a demolition permit and any project would require approval from the Ministry of Culture because it sits within the patrimonial zone of the St-Esprit church.
Of course, things could change if Coderre is elected. And if Shiller kicks out all the block’s tenants and lets it rot away for years and years, demolition could eventually become more likely.
DeWolf 18:57 on 2021-06-26 Permalink
Something that might be relevant to this: Shiller and Kornbluth bought a seven-storey apartment building on Drummond between Sherbrooke and Doctor Penfield. They wanted to tear it down and replace it with a 12-storey building, but the city’s demolition committee recently rejected their proposal because of neighbourhood opposition.
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/downtown-borough-rejects-demolition-of-drummond-st-building
Something tells me the opposition against redeveloping this historically important block of Chinatown would be magnitudes greater than the opposition to redeveloping an ordinary 1950s building on Drummond Street.