Dans cet article de la Presse canadienne sur le 200e anniversaire du canal de Lachine :
Not everyone is happy about the gentrification of the Lachine Canal. A years-long battle over the abandoned Canada Malting silos saw a community group push for affordable housing instead of another condo project planned by a Montreal developer.
But the reality is that condo developers are often the only ones who can afford to renovate old industrial sites. “There’s a lot of decontamination,” said Dorais. “And you have to keep certain heritage aspects and then restore them. That’s extremely expensive.”
Dorais said the developer now has all the rights to build on the Canada Malting site, but to date no construction has begun.
The upshot of all this restoration, according to High, is that developers are preserving the cachet of old silos and red-brick facades for the benefit of people with no link to the area’s working-class history.
“People had a multi-generational connection to these neighbourhoods … and now they can’t afford to live in them anymore,” he said.
CBC : From industrial highway to developer's paradise, Montreal's Lachine Canal turns 200 | CBC News
ou La Gazette : https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article650857.html











