Cité du Multimédia
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The Cité du Multimédia is a neighborhood in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, located between Old Montreal, Griffintown and Downtown Montreal. The neighborhood is the result of a vast real-estate project launched by the Quebec government in the late 1990s which redeveloped abandoned nineteenth century industrial buildings into a business cluster for information technology companies.
Groupe Cardinal Hardy and Groupe Provencher & Roy architectes collaborated on the district's urban design.[1]
History
The
After the bursting of the dot-com bubble, and the elimination of tax incentives for information technology jobs in the district by the Liberal government of Jean Charest in 2003, phase 9 and others were cancelled, and the structures were sold by the joint venture to the private sector.
Economy
Many high-tech companies are still located in the area, while phase 8 is occupied by the municipal government. The property values in this part of Montreal are very high. The neighbourhood has 6,000 workers, and an average salary of $73,000 per year. This figure is almost 25% above Montréal's average.
Controversy
Then-finance minister
The Cité du Multimédia was also put under investigation in the context of the Charbonneau Commission inquiries.[4]
References
- ^ Chodikoff, Ian (October 2003). "Strategic Urbanism". Canadian Architect. Business Information Group.[permanent dead link]
- ^ MacDonald, Don. "Tax credit targeted at boosting e-business". Montreal Gazette. Canwest. Archived from the original on 2012-11-04. Retrieved 2008-04-13.
- ^ "Centres de développement des technologies de l'information (CDTI)" (PDF). Investissement Québec. Investissement Québec.
- ^ "Charbonneau - Témoignage de Gilles Surprenant, Luc Leclerc et Michel Leclerc | le République". Archived from the original on 2014-05-23. Retrieved 2014-05-23.
External links
- Allied Properties REIT - Cité Multimedia
- Rose, Owen (2007-11-18). "Montréal Architecture (No.6)". URBANPHOTO. Archived from the original on 2009-05-28. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
- Montrealbits.com: Cité Multimedia