This building at St. Remy and St. James West at the northwestern tip of St. Henry is a classic ramshackle Montreal building with a whole ton'o'parking out front if you can handle the mud. However the city has a secret agenda to eventually turf out the residents of the 780 St. Remy abd turn it into a commercial building with satellite offices for the MUHC (Montreal Unrelentingly Hypnotizing Contraption) Superhospital. They say that the building is not zoned residential and there's no reason anybody should be allowed to live there. The owner and tenants say they're unaware of these plans but I've been a fly on the wall when the officials were stating their plans. I think it'd be a shame to zap residents from this area. Plenty of empty land to build around the site, they've just got to get off their butts and build it.
These are actually quite nice units inside. In 2000 I took a look at one and almost rented. They're loft style with windows that go from the floor right up to the high ceiling. Relatively high rent, not being walking distance to a metro and at that time, rumours that there was going to be some sort of a garbage dump built nearby convinced me that I should rent elsewhere (the Point).
ReplyDeleteOn another note, looking at the small photo, I thought those were some awfully big pigeons on the roof. Haha funny to see what they really were when I clicked to enlarge it.
I rented a loft for a few years back in 2002. A seemingly cool place to setup a live-in photography studio turned out into a nightmare when the ceiling leaked roof water onto my computer equipment. Add to this filthy halls and a muddy parking lot (certainly not suited for a new BMW) and you've got yourself people living in a commercially zoned building where the province's rental board has no jurisdiction. Stay away unless you like dogs barking, second hand smoke and loud music until 5am.
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