Above watch: There’s one very good reason for residents and workers in the Valois district of Pointe-Claire to get excited about their neighbourhood. Tim Sargeant reports.
POINTE-CLAIRE — There is one very good reason for residents and workers in the Valois district of Pointe-Claire to get excited about their neighbourhood.
A serious offer has been made to buy the deteriorating building on nearly 170,000 square feet of property on the corner of Donegani Avenue and Sources Boulevard.
“There’s not a day that goes by that I’m not fielding an inquiry, you know,” Jim Parsons, the realtor of ReMax told Global News.
The building is listed at $3.75 million or $23 per square foot, according to Parsons.
“Demolish the buildings, clean it all up.”
“Then go to the city and the city’s going to be receptive because they’re dealing in good faith and everything else,” Parsons said.
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The mayor said the area is zoned commercial for a four story building, but Morris Trudeau insisted the city is open to allowing a mix of residential and commercial businesses to open on the dilapidated site.
“It would be looked at very seriously and council would make a decision,” Trudeau said.
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Most of the building has been left abandoned for more than two decades, and it’s been completely deserted for the last seven years.
Tearing it down and opening a striking, new enterprising business is considered key to revitalizing the entire Valois Village.
The commercial and residential neighbourhood is in need of a major facelift.
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Small businesses, local services and the AMT train station are spread across Valois on Donegani Avenue.
But the major gateway into the district is through the boarded up commercial structure, and many said they believe it leaves a bad first impression on people who live and work in the area.
“We just need somebody to come along and say this village has hope, let’s give it some,” Victoria Linsdell told Global News.
“I don’t think it would take much but it definitely needs something.”
The waitress at Le Den insists a new attractive business at the site of where the eyesore now sits would be a catalyst for everyone working and living in Valois.
The city has plans to revitalize the district but so far that’s still in the planning stages according to Trudeau.
Parsons said he is hoping the offer to buy will be accepted — and that could bode well for everyone in the area.
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