Radical changes coming on Crescent Street
Some thoughts about the profound changes that will come to Crescent Street when the massive Ogilvy’s hotel condo is constructed. 250 people in the bar business expect to lose their jobs and the Hôtel de la Montagne will be demolished. The Apple store is on that block of Ste-Catherine but nothing’s said here about its future.
Joey 10:50 on 2012/05/15 Permalink
Surely those jobs will reappear – it’s not as if some condo project is going to diminish demand for the douchey bar scene…
Kate 11:05 on 2012/05/15 Permalink
It will partly depend how the new development interacts with the street. There’s also the simple fact that someone who’s already been a barkeep on Crescent for 15 years may not be the first choice for a new establishment.
Spock 11:19 on 2012/05/15 Permalink
Where else can we go to hook up with MILFs?
LOL
Robert H 15:07 on 2012/05/15 Permalink
Je ne vais pas manquer l’Hôtel de la Montagne (sauf le foyer haute camp), une dalle moche de béton. Pourtant, ce qui m’inquiet est la possibilite que la ville perdra une autre point de repère unique…bye bye Ogilvy? Ce serait comme New York sans Bergdorf-Goodman.*
*Meme si je n’avais jamais les moyens pour y magasiner.
Robert H 15:28 on 2012/05/15 Permalink
Kate, Spock, écoutez Joey, il a raison…le tronçon de la Montagne (et de la rue Crescent ) entre Sainte Catherine et René Levesque est longtemps sous-developpé. Les pubs devraient y déménager. Il y aura toujours un endroit pour un douchey bar scene ou un gars peut hook up with MILFs. Maintenant je vais lire les articles.
Spock 19:03 on 2012/05/15 Permalink
You realize I was just joking about the MILFs…
Eww…
Robert H 19:53 on 2012/05/15 Permalink
Rien qu’une blague!
Aww…
David Tighe 08:37 on 2012/05/16 Permalink
One should be careful about bunging down massive condo/hotel developments on top of what seems to be a lively and distinctive urban scene.We add more people and at the same time take away the places they could have gone to. The centre of Montréal will become less and less convivial. By the way what is an MILF?
Kate 09:07 on 2012/05/16 Permalink
I always consult urbandictionary.com when confronted with a pop-culture type expression I don’t know. MILF.