{"id":2192,"date":"2009-03-08T15:04:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T19:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2009\/03\/08\/photo-du-jour-the-last-days-of-the-seville\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:45:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:45:04","slug":"photo-du-jour-the-last-days-of-the-seville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/03\/08\/photo-du-jour-the-last-days-of-the-seville\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo du Jour : The Last Days of the Seville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alanahmontreal\/3338875916\/\" title=\"Seville's last days by alanah.montreal, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3376\/3338875916_77d715e68f.jpg\" alt=\"Seville's last days\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was an ugly day, but I has a sudden urgent need to snap a picture of the abandoned Seville Theatre on Ste-Catherine and Chomedy.<\/p>\n<p>Despite attempts to preserve the facade of the 1928 theatre, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/story_print.html?id=1302966\">the Gazette reported<\/a> that 3 separate studies have found it too decrepit to be incoprorated into a new student housing project that is slotted for this block.<\/p>\n<p>The more time I spend in this neigbhourhood, the more I realize how much of it is abandoned, including entire apartment blocks above Ste-Catherine, and lovely old greystones below. Between the Chidren&#8217;s Hospital, Alexis Nihon, Westmount Square, the Forum and Concordia, there has got to be a demand for housing in this area. I can&#8217;t figure out why so much beautiful, and surely valuable property is being left to deteriorate in an otherwise bustling part of downtown.<\/p>\n<p>What happened?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was an ugly day, but I has a sudden urgent need to snap a picture of the abandoned Seville Theatre on Ste-Catherine and Chomedy. 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