{"id":7626,"date":"2010-07-20T23:34:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T04:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=7626"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:48:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:48:10","slug":"final-farewell-to-the-seville-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/07\/20\/final-farewell-to-the-seville-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Final farewell to the Seville Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Seville Theatre demolition by Spacing Montr\u00e9al, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spacingmontreal\/4814213602\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4137\/4814213602_1a72f71cb5.jpg\" alt=\"Seville Theatre demolition\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Demolition under way at the corner of Sainte-Catherine and Lambert-Closse.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After decades of neglect and indecision, the Seville Theatre&#8217;s days are now numbered. Last week<a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/Seville+demolition+becomes+street+theatre\/3285466\/story.html\"> demolition began<\/a> on the western buildings of the Seville Theatre block. The West-End landmark was built in 1929 as a Vaudeville theatre, and it went through several incarnations before finally closing its doors in 1985. It has been sitting derelict ever since, <a href=\"http:\/\/communities.canada.com\/MONTREALGAZETTE\/blogs\/metropolitannews\/archive\/2010\/04\/12\/remembering-the-seville-theatre.aspx\">slowly deteriorating<\/a> until <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/04\/02\/photo-du-jour-inside-the-seville\/\">all that remained<\/a> was its brick exterior.<\/p>\n<p>Various proposals to redevelop the building while preserving the exterior fell through over the years. The fa\u00e7ade is <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/03\/08\/photo-du-jour-the-last-days-of-the-seville\/\">now too decrepit <\/a>to be reused and the whole thing is coming down to make way for a 100 million dollar\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-canada.ca\/regions\/montreal\/2010\/06\/08\/004-seville-mtl-immobilier.shtml\">residential and commercial project<\/a>, dubbed &#8220;Le S\u00e9ville&#8221;. It will consist of one 21-storey tower and two 12-storey towers, housing 450 condos and retail on the street level.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/condosleseville.blogspot.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7664  alignnone\" title=\"SEVILLE perspective\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/07\/SEVILLE-perspective.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/07\/SEVILLE-perspective.jpg 660w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/07\/SEVILLE-perspective-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/07\/SEVILLE-perspective-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image of future project, created by developers Claridge Inc. and Pr\u00e9vel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So far, only the buildings on the corner of Lambert-Closse and Sainte-Catherine have been demolished. According to the Gazette, the actual theatre itself will be coming down sometime in mid August after the construction holiday, so there is still time to drop by to pay last respects.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demolition under way at the corner of Sainte-Catherine and Lambert-Closse. After decades of neglect and indecision, the Seville Theatre&#8217;s days are now numbered. Last week demolition began on the western buildings of the Seville Theatre block. The West-End landmark was built in 1929 as a Vaudeville theatre, and it went through several incarnations before finally<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/07\/20\/final-farewell-to-the-seville-theatre\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Final farewell to the Seville Theatre&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5060,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7836,7837,7839,102,7842],"tags":[5457,9,48,73,14,867,5456,135,45,679,154,28,302,5458],"class_list":["post-7626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","category-history","category-neighbourhoods","category-spacing","category-urban-design","tag-claridge-inc","tag-development","tag-downtown","tag-headlines-a-la-une","tag-historical","tag-lambert-closse","tag-prevel","tag-retail","tag-revitalisation","tag-seville","tag-shaughnessy-village","tag-spacing-montreal","tag-usd","tag-vaudeville"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Final farewell to the Seville Theatre - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/07\/20\/final-farewell-to-the-seville-theatre\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Final farewell to the Seville Theatre - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Demolition under way at the corner of Sainte-Catherine and Lambert-Closse. 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