October 24th, 2008
Photo du Jour – Autumn lofts
By Alanah Heffez // 9 Comments
Residential loft building that would may be expropriated and demolished to make way for the construction of the new Turcot interchange.
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Beautiful picture, thank you. There is a lot of sumac in the area that turns a lovely red in the fall. Residents of the 780 often take the path along the train tracks when going to the metro.
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Anybody here live in that loft? Is it families or artists?
Paul - I am not absolutely positive that this building would be destroyed. However, in the article Chris DeWolf wrote for the Mirror last winter, a community member says that 780 St-Rémi, the address for this building, is missing from the final project.
http://www.montrealmirror.com/2008/012408/news3.html
As I understand it, one of the issues with the MTQ's project is that, in order to keep traffic flowing during the construction phase (6 years) the parts of the old and new interchange must co-exist in the space. So some buildings, including the northern side of Cazelais street, are at risk of being torn down, even if the final highway will not occupy the land.
The trouble with renderings is they are purely part of the overall pitch, and the one of the new Turcot is horribly idealized. It, for example, does not show what a mess that area will be for 6 or more years. It's, it's magic! And as far as I know, 780 has been on the demolition list since day 1.
mmm ville-marie/turcot interchange car exhaust and sonic assault!
definitely not good for what ails you! really, this isn't quality living folks. (except for the lovely brick (ormstown brick?)
if I might digress, I recall that the turcot originally has some really cool lighting that was installed in the sides of the roadway sidewalls (I don't quite know how to describe this) that maybe could be a montage de jour pic in a future spacing montreal posting?
yea, it was embedded in the sides of the ramps. Was kind of cool, but they found that the lights got easily covered by snow in winter so they went to regular light standards after that.
You can see them in this post.
http://neath.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/gabor-szilasi-2/
I this it is going to be a horrible time to drive in Montreal once they start all that construction.
Have they set a date to begin construction on the new interchange?
Sometime in 2009 they should start. It will be a nightmare. You have the probability of a hospital being built right next door, Griffintown, Bonaventure,
perhaps a high speed rail line from the airport, work on Dorval Circle could certainly slow the 20 down. Will be very "interesting".
Turcot will be unique in that they will be building a new freeway interchange and doing maintenance on the old one simultaneously. People really ought to keep in mind that it s going to be at least 6 years before the new one is actually being used. That is a hell of a lot of maintenance for something that you are planning to demolish. It's a logistical freakshow, but there we are.
Are you sure this building is scheduled to be torn down?
There has been renderings published that appear to show this building standing after the new interchange is completed.
Please see Transport Quebec drawings posted on Walking Turcot Yards:
http://neath.wordpress.com/2007/07/02/the-plan/
Comment by Paul
October 24, 2008 | 8:20 am