There's to be a concert tonight to celebrate the re-emergence of St. James United on Ste-Catherine Street.

This isn't the first time the Gazette has called the row of buildings that stood in front of the church for so many years a "strip mall". While they hadn't much aesthetic claim on the street, they were pretty standard Ste-Catherine Street storefronts, unremarkable but unobjectionable, and certainly not a strip mall in any sense. I'm not sure why they're insisting on this misnomer.

(While I'm being contrarian, I'd also ask how many retail jobs were lost to the demolition, and whether there's even any purpose for another fancy church in a city already bogged down with more fancy churches than anybody needs. And also, what happened to St. James's neon sign? That was a landmark, if anything was.)
posted at 10:15