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[ScarletCoral]

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New Café to Open in Landmark Old Montreal Royal Bank Tower

by Ian Harrison Jan 28, 2016, 12:48p @Blumsteinboy

 

Historic digs for third wave coffee.

 

First there was Tommy. Now another historic Old Montreal landmark is on the verge of a partial café makeover. The target this time is the peerless Royal Bank tower at 360 Saint-Jacques Ouest, which will soon house a new office and coffee shop, open to the public, from Crew, a freelancer marketplace that began at startup accelerator FounderFuel.

 

Here now, some valuable intel on the concept from Crew's Joseph MacNeil: "We've grown a lot, and needed a new office to fit all of us. However, instead of doing the typical startup office, we're going to be opening a café open to the public, which will feature super-fast (free) WiFi, silence pods (for doing focused work), as well as amazing coffee. Fifty-foot-high ceilings, 12,000 square feet of space, which, unless I'm mistaken, means it will be the biggest café in Montreal (and probably the prettiest, too)." Café Saint-Henri will stock the new café with beans, and Alex Ragoussis, late of Flyjin and Au Pied de Cochon, will helm the bar. Principals hope to open by April.

 

More on the tower's history from current management: "In 1907, the Royal Bank of Canada moved its headquarters from Halifax to Montreal, but in 1926, feeling cramped, it decided to build this skyscraper (the tallest in the British Empire), an expression of all its opulence and prosperity. Construction from 1926 to 1928. In 1962, the Royal Bank moved to Place Ville-Marie, but kept a branch on Saint-Jacques [until 2010]."

[IluvMTL]

Ceci ne devrait pas être dans la section Démoli. J'espère que ce bâtiment est là pour rester encore longtemps...

 

J'avais mis la nouvelle au sujet de l'usage dans la section Actualité il y a quelques jours.

http://www.mtlurb.com/forums/showthread.php/23783-New-Crew-moves-into-1920s-Royal-Bank-building-in-Old-Montreal

[MartinMtl]

Crew, a new cafe-bistro that just opened within the old Royal Bank Main Branch grand hall in Old Montreal. Surely one of the best and most grandiose looking-cafe anywhere.

 

http://montreal.eater.com/2016/5/2/11565496/crew-cafe-coffee-shop-old-montreal-royal-bank-tower#6455971

 

http://montreal.eater.com/2016/5/2/11565496/crew-cafe-coffee-shop-old-montreal-royal-bank-tower#6455971

 

http://montreal.eater.com/2016/5/2/11565496/crew-cafe-coffee-shop-old-montreal-royal-bank-tower#6455939

 

http://montreal.eater.com/2016/5/2/11565496/crew-cafe-coffee-shop-old-montreal-royal-bank-tower#6455941

 

http://montreal.eater.com/2016/5/2/11565496/crew-cafe-coffee-shop-old-montreal-royal-bank-tower#6455941

 

http://websta.me/p/1241286548396025914_4536897

 

http://websta.me/p/1241539997276915081_7128

 

http://websta.me/p/1241338310015617285_28181057

 

http://websta.me/p/1241499002009857762_1545814906

 

http://websta.me/p/1240410045612933240_2089911391

 

http://websta.me/p/1240348759691641367_35600271

 

http://websta.me/p/1239315588231629943_1528432466

[Rocco]

Sad to see a grandiose palace like this become the hub for a cheap hipster eatery. Down the drain. A sink and a washing machine in front of those magnificient teller desks what a fvckin shame.

[franktko]

Damn right.

[Mokita]

j'y suis passé ce midi et c'est vraiment très beau ... I prefer this as a cold bank counter

[denpanosekai]

I'll have to check this out over lunch. Don't blame the hipsters, blame RBC for not caring enough about its tower.

[vincethewipet]

Ça a l'air d'un bel endroit je trouve. Tant mieux si les hipsters le font vivre.

 

Les banques coupent le personnel humain de plus en plus, et le consommateur à de moins en moins besoin de passer à un comptoir. Je ne compterais pas sur eux pour sauvegarder du patrimoine immobilier.

[acpnc]

Un espace tout simplement somptueux démocratisé par la force des choses. Ce n'est certainement pas le meilleur usage pour un hall de cette envergure, mais c'est le marché qui dicte la fonction et pour le moment on devra s'y satisfaire. Le bon côté dans tout cela, c'est que le décor n'est absolument pas altéré et qu'on peut encore rêver à une mise en valeur plus recherchée.

[ymenard]

Je comprend pas comment on peut rentabiliser un... café dans ce genre de local. Quel doit être le prix au pi2 de location? Chauffage et électricité? Surement pas avec des café latté à 20$ ???