Park Canada designated the Saint-Laurent Boulevard as a national historic site because of its function as a gateway for immigrants to Canada. Before the extended sidewalk widening fiasco under the last Plateau-Mont-Royal borough mayor Helen Fotopolis, this used to be a thriving,vibrant street. Well, look at it now. Dumoulin Stereo, Atomic, Twist Encore, the Portugese knick-knack store, Mondo Fritz, American Apparel, Welch's Bookstore, the copy centres, the Mac fix it place, the vegetable fruit store, various bakeries, etc. etc. etc. moved or closed for good, hugely due to the extended renos that we can see now have effectively murdered the street. The street is dead in the day now + one big bar at night. Why a bike path wasn't included in the renos while they had the chance, astounds me. Instead we have these widened sidewalks passing by grim stores fronts such as these....
Arg. So much destroyed in such a short period of time. Can the Main recover?
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