POINTE-CLAIRE – Residents and candidates of the Valois council seat are calling for a major overhaul of the Valois Village.
The residential and commercial district is home to dozens of businesses along Donegani Avenue.
The problem is a massive abandoned building sits empty with boarded up shops at the eastern extremity of the village. And the district lacks the charm of Pointe-Claire’s famous village on Lakeshore Road.
“It’s a feeling that city hall doesn’t even know we’re here,” said Diane Hodges, who runs one of the Valois village’s well known British shop, Bramble House.
POLL: Should Pointe-Claire’s Valois Village get a facelift?
The Valois village is one of Pointe-Claire’s oldest communities.
The old Valois train station first opened in 1927 for Canadian Pacific Railroad.
It is now the home to the West Island Community Resource Centre.
But the number of attractive building and businesses are few and far between. Also, railroad tracks cut right through the town giving it an industrial feel.
Some of the Pointe-Claire council candidates running for a seat in Valois say revitalizing the village is one of their top priorities.
“I want to be the voice for Valois because of these issues that haven’t been addressed,” Carla Létourneau said.
”I would like to see what the merchants want,” Linda De Witt said.
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