griffintown Le Brickfields - 14 étages (2018)

[UrbMtl]

Oui les pompiers syndiqués ont paniqué...Et ils ont bien profité de cet malheureux événement pour être payés overtime. Il était plusieurs à rien faire sur le gazon et à regarder la pelle démolir la maison. Pourquoi démolir si rapidement?? Pour pas payer la facture des 20 pompiers qui tournent en rond pendant 3 semaines?

 

 

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Ah les méchants syndicats! C'est de leur faute!

Franchement, on est pas obligé de faire déraper la discussion ainsi.

[MtlMan]

Oui les pompiers syndiqués ont paniqué...Et ils ont bien profité de cet malheureux événement pour être payés overtime. Il était plusieurs à rien faire sur le gazon et à regarder la pelle démolir la maison. Pourquoi démolir si rapidement?? Pour pas payer la facture des 20 pompiers qui tournent en rond pendant 3 semaines?

 

 

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Man, relaxe là. Aucun rapport.

[hockey19]

Man, relaxe là. Aucun rapport.

 

Apparently a pompier pumped his gf #sorryinadvance

[acpnc]

Attention! ne nous trompons pas de cible. Je parle de ceux qui ont pris les décisions de démolir dans ce cas, comme dans celui du Vieux-Montréal. Pas des exécutants qui ne font qu'obéir aux ordres.

[Rocco]

On vient de perdre la coop de 1875, un bâtiment patrimonial dans la cité multimédia et le mount stephen est sévèrement endommagé. Pas un bon début d'année pour le patrimoine à Montréal. Sans oublier les victoriennes rasées pour le musée, la démolition sauvage d'un bâtiment ancien de belle facture architecturale en face de la tour de la bourse et la démolition de la maison redpath il y a deux ans.

Modifié 12 avril 2016 par Rocco

[FRED]

Quelle tristesse, cette catastrophe ! Je me sens mal pour les citoyens qui ont perdus leurs logements et aussi pour la démolition cette partie du patrimoine de Griffintown.

[ScarletCoral]

une petite bonne nouvelle pour les résidents évacués

 

via la Gazette :

 

Residents of demolished Griffintown coop will be housed: borough mayor

Michelle Lalonde, Montreal Gazette

 

Published on: April 12, 2016 | Last Updated: April 12, 2016 9:22 PM EDT

 

There was finally some good news late Tuesday for residents of a Griffintown housing cooperative that had to be suddenly demolished last weekend after engineers warned the 143-year-old building was at risk of collapsing.

 

Their troubles started on Easter weekend when a sewer pipe burst and dirty water started flowing into an excavated pit at a condo tower construction site right beside the Coopérative d’habitation Ste-Anne, on De la Montagne St. near Wellington St.

 

A few days later, on April 1, an inspector from the CNESST, Quebec’s workplace standards watchdog, declared the construction site unsafe and closed it. In the following days, a sinkhole developed in the sidewalk in front of the coop and cracks started to be visible on the exterior wall of one of the two buildings that form the coop.

 

By Saturday, firefighters were knocking on doors and telling residents in both buildings — 13 people in nine units — they had to get out immediately for their own safety. Residents thought they would be out of their homes for a day or two as the building was inspected, so they took only a few essentials with them.

 

But on Sunday, residents watched helplessly as one of the buildings was completely demolished.

 

“It’s still unbelievable; it’s unreal,” said Guylaine Mayer, a resident of the building for almost 40 years and president of the coop. While Mayer’s unit is in the building that is still standing, her two sisters and her brother-in-law were residents of the one that was demolished, and it was hard to stand with them and watch it come down.

 

“We were just watching the memories dropping down,” Mayer said in an interview.

 

“My sister was saying, ‘There’s my leather coat, there goes my sofa,’ but all of that is replaceable,” Mayer said, adding it could have been much worse if the building had collapsed with people in it.

 

One item that was not replaceable, and was retrieved by a determined firefighter after the demolition, was the urn containing the ashes of Mayer’s brother-in-law Frank, who died suddenly two years ago. The urn itself was slightly damaged, Mayer said, but her sister was greatly relieved to have it returned to her.

 

All 13 residents of the coop have had to find temporary shelter. Some went to stay with family members, while others have spent the last few nights at a local hotel, courtesy of the Red Cross.

 

So far, the coop’s insurance company has told Mayer it will not cover damages because the events were caused by a shifting of the soil under the building.

 

And a spokesperson for Maitre Carré, the developer that is building a 15-story commercial and residential tower beside the cooperative, has said it is not responsible for the “unfortunate incidents.”

 

Maitre Carré issued a statement on Monday saying it is “a responsible company that, since its founding, has done its utmost to conserve and protect heritage sites. We take this situation very seriously and are distressed by this unfortunate event.”

 

But Mayer is convinced the collapse of the coop’s foundation would never have happened, if not for the excavation work beside it.

 

“The building would still be there if they weren’t digging that site so close,” she said.

 

She said the broken sewer pipe and heavy rains may have contributed, but the coop and its residents certainly can’t be held responsible.

 

“We did nothing to have this happen to us” she said Tuesday morning.

 

She said she is exhausted and stressed, and worried this could spell the end to the 36-year-old cooperative, which does not have enough emergency funds to cover the costs of rebuilding.

 

But some good news came late Tuesday. Sud-Ouest borough Mayor Benoit Dorais told the Montreal Gazette the borough will pay for work to shore up the wall of the remaining building, fill in the sinkhole and clean up the demolition debris so that the residents of the remaining building can move back in as soon as possible, perhaps within a week.

 

He said three of the families that have been displaced qualify for subsidized housing and will be placed immediately in HLMs, low-rent housing run by the municipal housing office.

 

Other residents who lost their homes may be relocated to other coops by a local association of housing co-operatives, the Fédération des coopératives d’habitation intermunicipale du Montréal métropolitain. The FECHIMM has called a news conference for Wednesday morning.

 

Dorais said the borough is also assessing what the residents who lost possessions in the demolition need so that members of the public who wish to donate can do so.

 

Mayer said she was grateful for the support of the borough and of FECHIMM throughout the ordeal. But she also said she is not sure she will want to move back home, even if it is made secure.

 

“My sisters lived in the building that was demolished so they know they are not going home. I don’t know if I want to go back. There are so many memories there, but without my sisters there … The memories were within those walls. It’s not the same.”

 

mlalonde@postmedia.com

[vrioux]

Quelle situation incroyablement stupide. Les humains sont des bêtes atroces quand il est question d'argent ... On a vraiment besoin d'un dessin pour comprendre que le gros trou de 4 étages de profond creusé directement à côté de cet ancien immeuble construit sur des fondations de pierres empilées à causé l'affaissement? Franche fucking ment.

[vrioux]

Si j'avais acheté au Brickfields je ferais tout pour annuler mon achat.

[Rocco]

Maitre Carré doit faire quelque chose même s'il n'est pas reconnu coupable par la justice, il doit sauver les apparences qui sont pas mal négatives à son égard.