As recently presaged by Kristian on Coolopolis there are plans afoot to bring baseball back to town, possibly with the relatively new Can-Am League. Of course they will need a place to play.
Updates from May, 2011 Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts
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Linda Gyulai finds a fundamental contradiction in the city’s attitude to its employees using the much vaunted snitch line.
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Stefan
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After seeing business shrink due to chronic road repairs, Park Avenue merchants are demanding the city help them out by spiffing up the street with trees, better urban furniture and so forth. I thought I recalled seeing a report, when the excavations started on Park, saying the city was promising not to leave the street’s businesses in the lurch like they did on the Main, but can’t find a link.
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Tux
I hope they do their best for Parc. We lost a lot of good little places on the Main. Particularly sad was Mondo Frites… best poutines in town.
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The city has announced more than thirty construction sites to watch out for this summer as millions are invested in water main, road and sidewalk repairs. As usual the Gazette spins it into a story about the inconvenience caused by the work, somehow ignoring that you can’t reasonably complain about potholes and also about the nuisance caused by repairing them.
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Chris
I know, eh! I figure the Gazoo’s readership must be mostly west island anglos, and they are catering to their suburban auto-centric lifestyles.
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marc
Those inconvenienced realize they don’t need to choose from either potholes or repairs. Why is Montreal one of the very few cities without a third option of decent roads?!
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Police found the remains of Jolène Riendeau near highway 15 and the bridge to Nuns Island. No info yet on how they knew where to look, or whether the girl seems to have died soon after her abduction or later.
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dwgs
It was mentioned on CBC radio this morning that the bridge is undergoing repairs. My guess would be that someone doing prep work to prepare a bid for the job found her.
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It is now possible to circumnavigate the island of Montreal following the Route bleue, a 150-km water route around the island with a path marked out through the smaller islands.
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Guillaume Saint-Jean shows us the corner where Ben’s used to be and what’s there now, in four views.
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Charles
Ben’s was in a building surrounded by parking lots. Now, that new hotel is surrounded by parking lots. Why let buildings be torned down when there’s so many empty / parking lots downtown? I must be missing something.
On another subject, it’s be great to have an augmented reality app that shows those “lost” buildings on top of what’s there now (like layar). Just point your phone’s camera at a spot and it’d show you what was there before… -
Shawn
Bravo Charles. Yes, we have a billboard next door for a promised office building — that does look as if it might be an interesting new structure — but that’s all. With the office space going up further south, I doubt it’ll get built. In the meantime, we got this mediocre sliver building in an expanse of lots. What a rip.
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david m
well, there’s a project set (eventually) to rise on the parking lot, and it would obviously be illogical to nix a developer’s project because another developer was having trouble putting funding together. come on people, this is how cities renew, and montreal needs a lot lot lot of renewal.
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Chris
Charles, empty parking lots? Really? But motorists are always complaining that there is nowhere to park, surely those lots are full.
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Shawn
I hope you’re right, David. I’ve seen too many billboards for interesting projects that never, ever get built. And the point remains that it seems nuts to tear down Ben’s FIRST when it’s ringed with such an expanse empty space. Let’s see how long it takes to build anything else there. Five years? More?
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cultural change has to start at the top. too bad tremblay is cemented in for another 3 years or so, before project montreal will take over.