{"id":15434,"date":"2012-09-24T01:05:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T05:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=15434"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:21:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:21:17","slug":"pointe-saint-charles-community-groups-win-ownership-of-batiment-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/09\/24\/pointe-saint-charles-community-groups-win-ownership-of-batiment-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Pointe-Saint-Charles Community Groups Win Ownership of B\u00e2timent 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Affiche &quot;\u00e0 nous le batiment 7&quot; by alanah.montreal, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alanahmontreal\/8018328523\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8443\/8018328523_22524275e1.jpg\" alt=\"Affiche &quot;\u00e0 nous le batiment 7&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, <a href=\"http:\/\/actiongardien.org\/terrains-cn-batiment7\"><em>Comit\u00e9\u00a07\u00a0\u00e0 nous<\/em><\/a> and the Darling Foundry signed an agreement with Groupe Mach, which will give the community groups ownership of B\u00e2timent 7, an abandoned train shop located in the old CN yards in Pointe-Saint-Charles.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Poddubiuk, an architect who sits on the 7 \u00e0 nous board, was present at the meeting with Groupe Mach on Friday. He says that Group Mach, will sell the building to the\u00a0two non-profits for $1. Furthermore, the developer will decontaminate the soil and hand over $1 million towards renovating and recycling the building.<\/p>\n<p>Comit\u00e9 7 \u00e0 nous regroups representatives from several local community groups, including the Darling Foundry, Centre Social Autog\u00e9r\u00e9 (the group who led\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/05\/31\/rally-for-community-centre-squat-ends-in-eviction\/\">this ill-fated attempt<\/a>\u00a0to squat an abandoned candle factory in 2009), Club Populaire des Consommateurs, Regroupement \u00c9conomique et social du Sud-Ouest, Table de concertation communautaire Action-Gardien,\u00a0and other local citizens.\u00a0Some of the projects that the community groups have proposed for the 90,000 sq-ft building are: artists studios, a community centre, a gallery and performance space, a caf\u00e9, a daycare, greenhouses, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent Chiara, director of Groupe Mach, is a fan of contemprary art. He also needed a way to make a 32-hectare residential and industrial edevelopment palatable to a community renown for it&#8217;s strong activism (in 2006, the community successfully opposed plans to relocate the Montreal casino to the same site). In fact, Poddubiuk says, arriving at an agreement with the community about the use of B\u00e2timent 7 was one of the conditions set forth by the City in order to approve the developer&#8217;s proposed zoning changes.<\/p>\n<p>CN sold the\u00a0decommissioned\u00a0train yards to Group Mach for $1 in 2006, on the condition that the developer would assume responsibility for decontaminating the site. <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/01\/21\/public-consultation-for-cn-yards-in-pointe-st-charles\/\">Plans for the site<\/a> include 800 new residential units, of which about 600 would be condos. The development would extend the\u00a0existing street grid, and line it with duplexes, triplexes and low-rise blocks. About a third of the site would eventually be used for locomotive or other industrial re-use. The final third of the site was expropriated for AMT train repair shops (with significant monetary compensation to the developer, despite the fact that no value had been added).<\/p>\n<p>While Poddubiuk is pleased with the agreement, he points out that B\u00e2timent 7 is in &#8220;atrocious&#8221; condition. The train shop was built in 1924 and abandoned in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The building is a shed,&#8221; he says, &#8220;There&#8217;s no heat, no electricity, no running water.&#8221; He estimates that the project dreamt up by the various members of<em>\u00a07 \u00e0 nou<\/em>s will cost $5-10 million. The architect suggests that a first step would be to put the money from Mach towards setting up rather rustic artists&#8217; studios, and then go from there.<\/p>\n<p>Poddubiuk hopes that the community of activists who fought for years to appropriate B\u00e2timent 7 is ready to begin the hard work of planning, building and running a community centre.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a protest anymore,&#8221; he points out. &#8220;We&#8217;re now the developers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, Comit\u00e9\u00a07\u00a0\u00e0 nous and the Darling Foundry signed an agreement with Groupe Mach, which will give the community groups ownership of B\u00e2timent 7, an abandoned train shop located in the old CN yards in Pointe-Saint-Charles. 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