$7.9M for Carrefour Saint-Pierre expansion and renovation project in Montreal
Posted March 7, 2024 2:31 pm.
The federal government announced $7.9 million in funding for the Carrefour Saint-Pierre expansion and renovation project, to help double its space in Montreal’s Sainte-Marie district.
Carrefour Saint-Pierre includes the Centre St-Pierre and the new Maison St-Pierre.
“The Centre Saint-Pierre has, for the last 50 years, played a pivotal role in our community in the eastern part of Montreal,” said Steven Guilbeault, Canada’s Environment and Climate Change Minister and MP for Laurier—Sainte-Marie, who made the announcement on Thursday.
It’ll offer quality, accessible and affordable rental spaces to organizations committed to help marginalized communities.
“And will allow for up to between 13 and 15 community organizations to come and have their headquarters here, will keep them in the community or bring them back in the community. It’s obviously a way to support the incredible mission of the Saint-Saint-Pierre over those five decades, a mission of public education, social justice, and environmental justice.”
“It is driven by the firm conviction of responding appropriately to the urgent needs of community organizations struggling to find affordable housing that we are restoring Maison St-Pierre into a community building that is green, inclusive and universally accessible,” Louise St-Jacques, President of the board of directors, Centre St-Pierre.
The funding will be used, among other things, to increase energy performance and improving the quality and functionality of the building, including its universal accessibility. The work includes replacing the existing windows by more efficient windows and renovating roofs of the building. Green spaces will also be created outside of the Carrefour St-Pierre to reduce heat islands and runoff water.
