reportage de CBC
Montreal’s iconic Empress Theatre to be mostly demolished for new open-air cultural space
Montreal officials say they finally have a solution for a historic theatre that has sat abandoned for three decades, and after years of proposals ranging from art and retail to social and luxury housing, the plan is to tear it down.
But not the whole thing.
The Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough says it will preserve the iconic neo-Egyptian façade of the Empress Theatre, while demolishing much of the interior structure as part of a phased redevelopment project.
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