| Posted by maZe |
4/25/2006 9:43 PM | remove |
The Loews demolition is one big shame on Montreal and it's all CONCORDIA fault (they lied).
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
4/25/2006 10:32 PM | remove |
loews was concordias fault??? loews is down the street and was still standing at noon today
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| Posted by maZe |
4/26/2006 12:27 AM | remove |
oups
yes... YORK
YORK I MEAN. this is the York.
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
4/26/2006 3:39 AM | remove |
Might as well beat up McGill and UVM while we are at it. They sure raped and pillaged the mountain as far as some long ago generation could see it!
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| Posted by maZe |
4/26/2006 1:28 PM | remove |
Concordia agreed publicly, in front of municipal committees for preservation to save the York. Yet, as soon as the sale to Concordia was signed, they cut the services, wait for the winter to do its part and then pleaded it was too late to save the building and ask for a permit for demolotion.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
4/26/2006 3:20 PM | remove |
maze, services were cut to the york in the early 90s, concordia only bought the york around 97-98 the "complexe york" was the biggest nail in the places coffin when they moved the residents and stores out in 1989
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| Posted by maZe |
4/26/2006 3:49 PM | remove |
Still. I sat and I saw them promise to keep it as part of the conditions to buy that place.
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
4/26/2006 5:04 PM | remove |
Well it would be ironic if it was strictly Concordia's fault because they have the best film production program in the country -- and among it's graduates is a guy I know who made a documentary of the demoltion of the Queen's Hotel.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
4/26/2006 5:10 PM | remove |
oh i agree they broke thier promise for preserving it but the building degraded massively under the stewardship of the previous owner. Lets not forget in the first year of ownership concordia did shore up some brickwork and install a new roof over part of the projection booth but by the time concordia got thier hands on the site the vandals had already had quite the field day
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| Posted by SPEK Photo |
5/4/2006 3:13 AM | remove |
The York by the way it was constructed: concrete with many inside walls and cross-members would have been a nightmare to transform into anything else. I went in there and it was a little maze. no joke here... it was full of small rooms. The place could not have been cleared inside like they do inside industrial buildings and reused without expensive modifications to the structure. the ceilings were pretty low too. Ten years ago the place had already suffered alot from vacancy and they nice plasters inside the theater can't survive renovation after years freezing. It was not viable to put down the whole place while saving the inside theater.
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| Posted by Daius |
11/7/2006 6:34 PM | remove |
alot of the old decorations from the york are in the new ev building, i know it still sucks that they smashed the place down but at least they kept some of the old stuff
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