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Home›Montreal›‘I don’t know what I will do’: Parc-Extension residents, merchants upset over building sale, evictions

‘I don’t know what I will do’: Parc-Extension residents, merchants upset over building sale, evictions

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November 24, 2017
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The sale and redevelopment of a multipurpose building in Montreal’s Parc-Extension district has some residents concerned about the future of their neighbourhood.

Mohammed Azizul Haque, who owns Marché Pardesh, a grocery store, has been stressed and unable to sleep ever since he got a letter in his mailbox in October informing him that he will have to leave 7300 Hutchison Street.

“I always feel tension,” he said.

After eight years of owning the business — the last two of which have been at the Hutchison location — the business owner was told he has 32 days to vacate the premises.

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“I don’t know what I will do because now rent is too high,” he said. “It’s difficult to find a place.”

Known as Hutchison Plaza or the Johnny Brown Building, the building sits across the street from the Parc Metro station. For years, it’s housed small local businesses, religious spaces, community groups and several floors of residential apartments.

The BSR Group, the new owner, is hoping to convert the building into “fully loaded” apartments near some “culturally diverse, trendy and artistic Montreal neighbourhoods.”

The neighbourhood’s housing advocacy committee is questioning the move and wondering what will happen to the residential and commercial tenants in the building.

“We would like to know the future for these people,” said André Trépanier, who’s with the Comité d’action de Parc-Extension.

“People are not feeling safe, especially for a small organization with a small budget, it’s not easy to find a cheap place to rent.”

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Trépanier bristled at the language used to promote the proposed development — words such as “diverse” and “trendy.”

“[They] are using the ‘exotic’ brand of Park Ex to try to make money with the new people, instead of supporting the people and community groups now in that building,” he said.

‘A better place’

Ron Basal, the project manager of the BSR Group, sounded surprised to hear that some people in the area don’t support the project.

“Building a beautiful building is a bad thing?” Basal said. “Everything is old in Park Ex, and there’s something new coming up.”

He said approximately 60 apartments will be available for rent. Asked if those units would be affordable to low-income tenants, Basal said the rental units would be priced at market value.

“We are a private company, and we are a profit organization, not a non-profit organization,” he said.

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