Café Cleopatra
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Sad End in Sight for the Lower Main
This week the the Lower Main redevelopment saga is drawing to a sad and quiet close: on December 21st, the Ville-Marie borough ordered the demolition of...
By Alanah Heffez -
Election Schadenfreude and Retrospective
Having just spent the weekend in a Toronto ridden with pre-election-angst, I couldn’t help but indulge in a little bit of voter Schadenfreude. Only...
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du Jour – After the “Bomb”
A couple of ladies lounge outside Café Cleopatra on a Sunday afternoon beside a fresh mural by Zilon et Seaz’s that homage to Cleo’s. Somebody...
By Alanah Heffez -
Lower Main
Spacing Montreal has been following plans to revitalize Lower Saint-Laurent within the Quartier des Spectacles. Here’s an overview of the...
By Spacing -
SDA Backpedals on Lower Main Redevelopments
Breaking News: The three new buildings proposed by Société Dévelopment Angus on Boulevard Saint-Laurent will be smaller and longer in coming than...
By Alanah Heffez -
Addendum: Café Cleo’s John Zoumboulakis
On Saturday I wrote about Café Cleopatra’s last stand on the lower Main. After refusing to sell his property to the Société de Développement Angus...
By Alanah Heffez -
The Lower Main’s Last Stand
This January, the Société de Développement Angus acquired two properties on Saint-Laurent and Ste-Catherine: Main Importing Grocery and building that...
By Alanah Heffez -
Slow Down, Quadrilatère Saint-Laurent
The Public Consultation Bureau of Montreal has finally released their report and recommendations following the deposition of over 30 memoirs and a...
By Alanah Heffez -
Big changes in store for the lower Main
La Presse has discovered that negotiations are underway to transform the west block of St. Laurent, from the Monument National to Ste. Catherine St., into...
By Christopher DeWolf