Wellington
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Why the demise of big box stores is not necessarily good news for main street shops
Considering that the SAQ announced last June that it would close two of its smaller outlets in the Southwest borough of Montreal (presumably to open up...
By Joel Thibert -
Cultural Corridor to channel creative energy into Griffintown
Image: Poetry reading in the Dalhousie Art Space, adjacent to the New City Gas Co. building, Aug 2010. There are rumbles of change in Griffintown. After...
By Alanah Heffez -
Verdun : un portrait photographique (Le social)
Allez. Débarquez à la station De l’Église. Regardez autour de vous. Prenez note, que l’État est un fait de nature, que naturellement...
By Émile Thomas -
Verdun : un portrait photographique
À cause de son histoire en tant que ville indépendante, ou bien, à cause de son isolement relatif, Verdun est un petit trésor urbain sur la carte...
By Émile Thomas -
Devimco’s New Griffintown Scheme: “District Griffin”
Devimco, the embattled developer with big plans for the forlorn neighbourhood of Griffintown, south of Downtown, have finally unveiled their new, albeit...
By Chris Erb -
Underground Art in Wellington Tunnel
Tunnel Art Party – Images by Tristan Brand, used with permission. Last Friday I huddled under the trees in Ste-Ann’s park, Griffintown, along...
By Alanah Heffez -
New City Gas Co. building threatened by bus corridor proposal/Bonaventure redevelopment
The plan to tear down the Bonaventure Expressway in favour of an “urban boulevard” (with four lanes going both ways), complete with new office...
By Chris Erb -
Devimco scrapping project unless city pitches in, expropriation orders lifted
The bad news for Devimco’s proposed 1.3 billion dollar redevelopment keeps piling up with last week possibly being the tipping point. After being...
By Chris Erb -
1ière avenue, part 1: Verdun
Corner of Wellington and 1re Avenue in Verdun. These street signs are unique to Verdun’s Wellington Street “Downtown” commercial strip...
By Chris Erb -
Event Space / Espace Événements 15 – 30 Sept.
Spacing Montreal’s biweekly, bilingual listing of events around town that explore public art, public space, architecture, urban planning and other...
By Alanah Heffez -
Imperial pedigree: colonial street names
I had travelled more than 15,000 kilometres only to stand, once again, at the corner of Peel and Wellington. Of course, it wasn’t the same Peel and...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Closing time at the street market
[youtube]CSHup9MNXPQ[/youtube] HONG KONG — Montreal has a handful of fine public markets, but what it lacks are some good street markets. We have...
By Christopher DeWolf