{"id":684,"date":"2011-05-03T03:02:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T08:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=684"},"modified":"2013-02-03T16:36:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T22:36:52","slug":"montreal-qc-condo-projects-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=684","title":{"rendered":"Montreal, QC: Condo Projects Under Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some context: In 2009, dozens of condos of three real estate projects under construction were burned down in Montreal. The police have no leads in the investigation.<\/em><\/p>\n

from the bourgeois press<\/del> (3\/1\/11):<\/em><\/p>\n

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It was a true Montreal moment.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0condo project in the city’s East end was defaced with the line,\u00a0“I can’t pay rent,” \u00a0which was subsequently defaced by “101” – a reference to the province’s language laws.<\/p>\n

I thought of\u00a0that sign\u00a0I spotted months ago,\u00a0after learning that yet another mid-priced condo project went up in smoke this morning.<\/p>\n

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Fire hits the Dandurand St. development – photo: Phil Carpenter, Gazette<\/em><\/p>\n

The fire<\/a> hit a project\u00a0that developer Idevco was transforming from an old body shop into a 12-unit condo building. I wrote<\/a> about that project in 2010, when new condos – priced up to $300,000\u00a0– were being\u00a0started in\u00a0record<\/a> numbers.<\/p>\n

For sure, the\u00a0cause of\u00a0Tuesday’s fire is still unknown. But over the last two years it’s been clear that a growing number of these developments – especially in traditionally working class areas like Ahuntsic, Rosemont, and Hochelaga Maisonneuve –\u00a0seem to be getting hit by arsonists.<\/p>\n

A Hochelaga Maisonneuve project hit<\/a> last year by arsonists left behind\u00a0the message “br\u00fble condo br\u00fble.”\u00a0At the time, people in the neighbourhood suspected that the arsonist opposed the gentrification of the area, as developers search for the remaining plots of cheap land in Montreal. With all the focus on development, there’s been little discussion of the impact new condos have\u00a0had on renters in these areas.<\/p>\n

Police have not said that any of\u00a0these fires are connected.<\/p>\n

But it makes me wonder whether today’s fire in Rosemont –\u00a0followed by another blaze that torched a condo project in Ahuntsic – are\u00a0the\u00a0end result\u00a0of a similar sentiment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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