Park Ex to lose community hub
Park Extension is losing a key community hub, possibly for several years, possibly for good. The William Hingston centre is no architectural gem, but it includes a library, a school, gyms, food banks, and room for various community groups. It’s one of those low, crawling concrete monstrosities Quebec built for educational purposes in the late 1960s and early 1970s and is now falling apart – but the community has few other spaces it can use, and there’s no guarantee the CSSDM will rent space to community groups again after the repairs are completed.
Update: The CSSDM is also selling a building in Ahuntsic that has also functioned as a community hub.
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