Place des Nations plan grinds to a halt
An ambitious plan to restore the Place des Nations to usable condition has ground to a halt as the firms meant to work on it are demanding more money.
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Nicholas 00:40 on 2025-04-17 Permalink
The lawyers will obviously go over the contract, which we can’t read, but in general unless you have an inflation clause or a cost plus clause or a generous force majeur clause, you don’t get to not fulfill your fixed price contract or demand more money just because your costs rose. If you promise to do a thing for $100 and you think it’ll cost you $85 and you can get $15 in profit, but then costs go up and now it’s $95 or $105, well too bad, you take a loss. The park here should either force the contractor to finish the contract (specific performance) or sue for damages (liquidated if they exist). If the contractor goes bankrupt, well tough, bid better next time. And certainly no government should ever use them again. Enough socializing the losses or low bidding and then asking for more money later.
Also it’s really funny that one of the contractors said they don’t consider there to be a legal case as of yet, so they won’t comment. It’s usually the opposite. I guess they’ll never comment.
MarcG 06:31 on 2025-04-17 Permalink
I coincidentally came across this poster yesterday for a Bad Religion show at Place des Nations on May 22, 1999 billed as its “Official Reopening”. (source Montreal Concert Poster Archive).
Kate 09:54 on 2025-04-17 Permalink
I wonder how that happened, MarcG. The site has been nothing but abandoned concrete risers for years. When I explored it, about 15 years ago, it was clearly on the verge of becoming hazardous.
MarcG 12:06 on 2025-04-17 Permalink
I found 2 other shows at Place des Nations that summer, The Offspring and Everlast, The Roots, and Macy Grey, and summer 2000 No Doubt played there with Lit and the Black Eyed Peas, and Grimskunk headlined a 2-day punk fest. It really seemed like the place to play in the 70s: Jeff Beck, Supertramp, Zappa, Peter Tosh, April Wine, Beau Dommage, BTO, Nazareth. According to this Gazette article, the Jazz Fest had a show there in 2004 featuring Vic Vogel.
saintlaurent 12:58 on 2025-04-17 Permalink
Whoever put that poster archive together has my deepest admiration. Goodness, the early 90’s were something else – a lot of nostalgia for my (somewhat) misspent youth.
MarcG 14:37 on 2025-04-17 Permalink
@saintlaurent: His name is JF Hayeur and he’s video documented tons of shows as well, available on his Punk Empire YT channel.
Joey 17:37 on 2025-04-17 Permalink
@saintlaurent he really deserves it. I commented on a post referencing a show I attended as a six year old and he replied with a scan of a Gazette ad promoting that concert.