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It took two and a half years, but traffic is now freely flowing along the Plaza-St-Hubert shopping centre, and with it comes a call from local business developers: We want to hear your ideas for new destinations on the strip and we’ll finance the best of them.
An entrepreneurial contest from Centre-Est PME MTL and the Société de développement commercial de la Plaza Saint-Hubert, Juste sur la Plaza is awarding grants of up to $30,000 per project, with a total budget of $85,000. It’s a sign that the area is looking to keep up its momentum in the last few years a search for fresh ideas that will likely break with the strip’s longstanding history as a place for wedding and prom dresses, the birthplace of Quebec’s expansive St-Hubert rotisserie chicken chain and liquidation stores for clothing.