ville-marie DOMO Appartements - 10 étages

[Rocco]

Et voilà, tout par terre.. Mondev doit remercier le ciel. C'est fou comment un ptit feu peut faire des miracles.

[Gotti]

Et voilà, tout par terre.. Mondev doit remercier le ciel. C'est fou comment un ptit feu peut faire des miracles.

 

[acpnc]

Je me rappelle que dans la ville de Hull, aujourd'hui Gatineau, on a procédé de cette manière dans les années 70 pour reconstruire le centre-ville. Tout y a pratiquement passé, un site à la fois. Des gens allumés pour qui le développement urbain devait se tourner exclusivement vers l'avenir...

[Fortier]

Quand les abrutis qui font ça vont commencer à se faire pogner, j'imagine que cette méthode cessera.

Un petit conseil pour le SPVM : follow the money.

[ScarletCoral]

via Montreal Gazette :

 

Police investigating suspicious fire in Old Montreal

 

 

JESSE FEITH,

MONTREAL GAZETTE

Published on: March 25, 2016 | Last Updated: March 25, 2016 10:48 PM EDT

 

Montreal firemen continue to water down the smouldering remains after an overnight fire on Wellington near Soeurs-Grises Street in Montreal on Friday March 25, 2016.

ALLEN MCINNIS / MONTREAL GAZETTE

 

A historically significant Old Montreal building that had been eyed by condo developers and heritage buffs alike burned down Friday in what police consider a suspicious fire.

 

The building, at the corner of Wellington and King Sts., had been vacant for years before catching fire late Thursday night.

 

 

A 52-year-old man was found on the third floor and quickly brought to the hospital for treatment, where he was detained and questioned by police before being released. No charges were laid.

 

 

Given different elements found at the scene after more than 150 firefighters were called to handle the fire, Montreal police turned the investigation over to its arson squad.

 

 

“It’s not an occupied building so nothing points toward an electric fire or anything that can happen of that nature,” said Montreal police spokesperson Abdullah Emran.

 

 

“So it had to have been (started by someone). Now we don’t know if it’s accidental, whether someone was trying to warm up. It is known to be a place used by squatters. But we really don’t know at this point.”

 

 

The building had been at the heart of a condo project proposed by a Montreal developer in 2012. A file prepared from the city’s heritage division after a demolition permit was requested at the time said the building had historical value, having initially been built in the late 1880s and early 1900s.

 

 

“This site bears witness to the industrial and manufacturing past of the eastern part of Griffintown and the construction methods of industrial buildings from the late 19th and beginning of the 20th-century,” the report said.

 

 

Despite being granted approval for partial demolition, that condo project was abandoned early last year. Mock-ups of the condos had showed that the walls of grey stone facing Wellington St. and red brick facing King St. were both going to be preserved.

 

 

According to Dinu Bumbaru, the policy director of Heritage Montreal, a special bylaw put in place had stated that the building’s facade had to be integrated into any project that would end up on the lot.

 

 

Bumbaru fears that’s a point the fire department will overlook as it assesses what to do next. As of late Friday afternoon, the department hadn’t yet decided if the fire-ravaged building was to be demolished. The arson squad also hadn’t been able to enter to start its investigation because the fire was still burning.

 

 

“There’s a special order of the city council to keep these things,” Bumbaru said of historically significant structures. If the fire department were to allow a project to obtain indirectly what it isn’t supposed to have directly, it would mean the department is “disconnected from the city’s orders.

 

 

“There may be a safety issue that requires it to be pulled down. Does everything need to be pulled down? Or just a segment. These old structures are sometimes much stronger than what we build today.”

 

 

The current owner of the building, Jeff Feifer, said he was told from the fire department that the building was a complete loss and there was no choice other than to tear it down.

 

 

The building has been in the Feifer family since the late 1940s.

 

 

Feifer confirmed the family has recently been toying with the idea of selling the property to be used for a new condo and hotel development.

 

 

“Now we’re going to have to deal with it as a demolition site instead of a restoration site,” he said.

 

 

But whatever goes up, he added: “I think you have to put something in place that respects the history and the feeling of the neighbourhood.”

 

 

jfeith@postmedia.com

 

 

twitter.com/jessefeith

 

The Montreal police arson squad is investigating the fire.

ALLEN MCINNIS / MONTREAL GAZETTE

 

The burned industrial building was empty, except for one man found on the third floor. He is being treated for smoke inhalation.

ALLEN MCINNIS / MONTREAL GAZETTE

[Rocco]

Les photos sont déjà pu à jour. Le building est à terre complètement déjà en date de samedi.

[Falcon-Z]

J'espère que la police va saisir le terrain durant son enquête. De plus, j'avais lu sur facebook que quelqu'un avait essayé de faire de l'exploration urbaine dans le buidling il y a quelque semaine mais que le site était trop bien sécurié pour y entrer et qu'il fallait absolument détenir les clés. J'ai perdu le message en question mais ça me laisse encore plus perplexe.

[acpnc]

Quel dommage, c'est déjà difficile de construire des immeubles de caractère, si en plus on fait disparaitre ceux qui en ont toujours eu. Alors c'est toute la communauté et la ville qui y perd au change. Héritage Montréal est donc plus pertinent que jamais, en tant que chien de garde du patrimoine montréalais. Ce sont justement ces immeubles anciens qui distinguent le mieux la métropole de toutes les autres villes sur le continent. Surtout qu'en ce qui a trait aux constructions contemporaines, rien de vraiment original ne nous différencie de ce qui se fait ailleurs.

 

En conséquence, je suis déçu que dans la précipitation, on ait fait disparaitre sans autre précaution, les façades qui avaient résisté à l'incendie. J'ose alors espérer qu'on ira au bout de l'enquête. Car si cet incendie devient une pratique commode pour se débarrasser des vieilles pierres. Cela deviendra vite un incitatif pour d'autres cas semblables dans les environs. La vigilance et la sévérité sont nos seuls moyens de défense, pour nous assurer que dans aucun cas le crime ne devienne payant.

[Gotti]

Les photos sont déjà pu à jour. Le building est à terre complètement déjà en date de samedi.

 

[UrbMtl]

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