The author of a series of popular Quebec books and co-author of a future book with former American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is coming to the defence of a Mile-End bookstore that s threatened by rising rent.
Mile End residents angry that developers are pushing out indie stores These businesses are closing not because they re not working, but because they have a landlord who is raising the rent in unreasonable fashion.
Author of the article: Brendan Kelly • Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: Mar 04, 2021 • March 4, 2021 • 4 minute read • Projet Montréal councillor Richard Ryan has lived in the Mile End for 35 years and currently lives just around the corner from the S.W. Welch bookstore, which will probably have to move because of a huge hike in rent.. Photo by Pierre Obendrauf /Montreal Gazette
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In one corner, you have a community up in arms that mom-and-pop businesses on St-Viateur St. are being forced out by exorbitant rent increases. In the other corner is one of the city’s leading real-estate developers that owns several buildings on the fabled Mile End artery and insists his group is just trying to make a living in a difficu