| Posted by cjb |
4/15/2004 7:32 AM | remove |
how could they have left such a magnificient place rot until it was too late....
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| Posted by maZe |
4/15/2004 5:57 PM | remove |
The question really is : how could the population of Montreal tolerate what Concordia U did and what the city never did to save the place. How come no one said anything???
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| Posted by ex-goose-villager |
4/15/2004 8:40 PM | remove |
Who knows? Montreal seems to have a real ambivalent attitude towards its history and buildings. I just heard on the CBC this afternoon about how some Torontonians (led by former mayor John Sewell) are trying to save Maple Leaf Gardens from being demolished. Why did Montrealers stand the demolition of the Montreal Forum?
The answer in the vast majority of cases of this type boils down to money--if the owners can't make money off of it, then demolish it. At least the Europeans seem to be a little less mercenary in this regard.
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| Posted by cjb |
4/15/2004 9:15 PM | remove |
I think what Concordia University was legitimate, the building was beyond recuperation, or if it was to be renovated it would had been so transformed that it wouldn't look the same.
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| Posted by maZe |
4/16/2004 3:24 PM | remove |
CJB, I don't agree. Structurally, the building has never been transformed, which is quite the opposite to most of the theatres that have been saved and restored in the last decade. It was still structurally safe too and could have been easily saved.
With the current innoccupancy rate so low in Montreal, these appartments could have been rented in a week for an absolutely good price (just compare this to what people pay to live in old abandonned / restored warehouses... this is quite a hip trend right now).
And because of the way the building was made, accousticaly, the cinema would not have disturbed the appartments tenants, which is also great news. I would have pay a lot to live there myself...
The York should have been saved because there is so little art deco buildings of that sort left in Mtl.
And how can you agree to what Concordia did. Which is buying the building while saying they were considering restoring it. Then cutting off the heat (and making sure the building suffered great damages during the winter) and finally, just demolished to whole place, without any public consultations... This sure is, to me, a cheap way, of doing business.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
5/1/2004 9:57 PM | remove |
demolition by neglect, as recently as 1993 it was supposed to be integrated into complexe york a mixed use project on the old pascals property, they intended to make the theatre rentable by adding 5 screens in the new building, the old part would be untouched, i hate multiplexes but it would have worked, the york could never have been adapted for live stage since it never had a stage and they could not extend onto makay street, altogether concordia proved the demolition by neglect, remember it was still open and showing first runs in 1989, heated until 94, it is sheer negligence on concordias part
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| Posted by darbycrashin |
10/23/2004 5:30 AM | remove |
wow, that place was amazing.
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