By Joel Ceausu
The Suburban
The borough of CDN/NDG has announced that Montreal’s executive committee met in February and gave the go-ahead to move the stage in Parc Jean-Brilliant into storage until it can be installed somewhere in the Hippodrome at a later date. The pavilion designed by renowned architect Dan Hanganu “will be at the heart of the cultural life of a whole new district,” declared Borough Mayor Gracia Kasoki Katahwa.
Since the borough is redeveloping the park and surrounding roads, the park chalet will be expanded, so the pavilion will have to be relocated. It is already not used to its full potential, says the borough, due to neighbourhood nuisance issues stemming from sound reverberation when activities are held under the shelter. Since there is nothing at the 75-hectare Hippodrome site but some urban gardens, the borough is dismantling, packing up and storing the 12-year-old steel and glass pavilion.
The city and Quebec are betting on the emerging plan to begin building as early as next year, an eco-district in the heart of Montreal. n