Industrial project rejected in eastern borough
Hochelaga-Maisonneuve has rejected an industrial project that would have involved cutting trees and demolishing this building which someone in the item describes as “patrimoine industriel” and claiming that “les résidents du secteur « sont attachés » au bâtiment.”
I was wondering even where residents would live in that area, but if you look for 7101 Notre‑Dame East on the map, you’ll see four residential streets in a rectangle bounded on all four sides by industrial installations.
Blork 12:15 on 2022-11-10 Permalink
Imagine the air quality in that little neighbourhood. OTOH I’ll bet you can buy a house there for under $200K.
MarcG 12:20 on 2022-11-10 Permalink
$339,000 is the new “under $200K”. https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/25025801/1100z-av-%C3%A9mile-legrand-montr%C3%A9al-mercierhochelaga-maisonneuve-mercier
Blork 12:20 on 2022-11-10 Permalink
That said, there’s something special about that kind of neighbourhood that always gets my imagination going. Looking around there (in Streetview) it seems sort of lost in time. It’s the kind of neighbourhood were folksy novels about family traumas are set, or movies about nerdy kids who grow up to be astronauts or whatnot.
Blork 12:24 on 2022-11-10 Permalink
OMG, $339k and they don’t even show pictures of the interior. That’s bent. At least there’s a big back yard, but come on!
Blork 12:27 on 2022-11-10 Permalink
The ReMax listing says “This property requires major renovations.”
https://www.remax-quebec.com/en/lot-for-sale/1100z-av-emile-legrand-montreal-mercier-hochelaga-maisonneuve-mercier-13909113.rmx
Ephraim 14:20 on 2022-11-10 Permalink
This shows the inside… https://www.centris.ca/en/houses~for-sale~montreal-mercier-hochelaga-maisonneuve/22516528
There is also a duplex with garage for $600K and two quadplexes for $750K and $995K. The $750K one has converted a garage into an apartment… wonder if it’s legal? Reminds me of an apartment they put with an entry on the alleyway only to find out that no reputable notary would do the paperwork because it had no legal streetside entryway
mare 23:09 on 2022-11-10 Permalink
I once made the mistake to take my bike to an address on Ontario street in that area without a map, just with the house number (this was before smartphones). So I started my ride East on Ontario from Papineau. Ontario might be the most cut-up street in Montreal, with so many small sections, intercut with industrial buildings and areas, and sometimes just a fence between two sections. Every time I got stuck I had to make huge detours, most not at all bike friendly, to reach Ontario again and then find out that the street was again blocked by a industrial building. It took forever to reach that address, slightly to the west of this neighbourhood. There are 5 disjointed sections of Ontario Street E. between Viau and Baldwin, with long stretches of ‘missing’ Ontario street.
denpanosekai 13:42 on 2022-11-11 Permalink
Today I learned we have a Rue Beauclerk (LOL) Nice find Kate. Does that neighborhood have a specific name? There’s a bit of wartime housing.
Kate 15:25 on 2022-11-11 Permalink
denpanosekai, it’s part of Longue-Pointe, so the army base is right nearby. But I don’t know whether that enclaved section of streets – Beauclerk, Émile‑Legrand and Lyall, and stubs of Ontario and La Fontaine – has a distinctive name.