Five-alarm fire burning on Notre-Dame
A five-alarm fire is burning on Notre‑Dame at Gauvin, a one‑block street west of Victoria Square. CTV says it’s 639 Notre‑Dame West that’s on fire – a handsome gray stone building from 1891.
Update Saturday: The building is a total write‑off. And the fire is under investigation.
Ooh, and guess who owned it?
Nicholas 22:20 on 2023-10-27 Permalink
Shockingly, there’s apparently a development planned that, I assume, would have had to spend a lot of money (and use up a lot of space) incorporating the facade. Complete coincidence, I’m sure!
Kate 08:21 on 2023-10-28 Permalink
When I posted that item, I had been going to add a remark about how the fire would clear the way for a developer, but I thought that was too harsh. And yet this morning, Nicholas’s is not the only comment I’ve seen suggesting just that.
Nicholas 11:07 on 2023-10-28 Permalink
There was also a comment to the same original tweet that a worker at an adjacent building heard an explosion before the fire. Don’t blindly trust third hand information online, but….
It is odd that the plans were on Agora two years ago, but the building is for sale. Had the developer given up?
qatzelok 11:01 on 2023-10-29 Permalink
The relationship between economic elites and organized crime… (add your own verbs)
qatzelok 11:18 on 2023-10-29 Permalink
“…Landlords – whose status was theoretically defined through the percentage of income derived from exploitation as opposed to labor– had their land confiscated and they were subjected to mass killing by the CCP and former tenants, with the estimated death toll ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions. The campaign resulted in hundreds of millions of peasants receiving a plot of land for the first time.”
Wikipedia entry: “Land Reform Movement” (Maoism)