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How Empty Storefronts Are Killing Our Neighbourhoods

How Empty Storefronts Are Killing Our Neighbourhoods
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Nawaz: What is the price of a vibrant neighbourhood?

Article content There’s a sandwich I’ve been dreaming about for years. Spicy Hungarian salami on a fresh, soft cheese bun, with lettuce, tomatoes, extra pickles the whole thing fairly dripping with mayonnaise and yellow mustard. That was my sandwich at Boulangerie Clarke, the beloved Mile End shop that closed in 2015. How exactly this came to be my sandwich, I couldn’t tell you. In the regular course of things, it never occurs to me to eat spicy salami. But that’s what I chose off the board the first time I was there, and I don’t believe in messing with a good thing. Even with extra pickles, the whole sammie only cost about $5 an extraordinary bargain for a made-to-order lunch on a freshly baked bun roughly half the size of your head. Between the liberal toppings and the lavish saucing, it was a five-star and five-napkin sandwich.

Mile End bookstore S W Welch faces off agains Schiller-Lavy

Article content There’s a David versus Goliath battle going in the heart of Mile End, and it looks like Goliath has the upper hand in this all-too-familiar tale of gentrification in a hot hip neighbourhood. Goliath in this case is Montreal real-estate firm Shiller-Lavy Realties, which owns several buildings on St-Viateur St., and the underdog fighting for its life is the venerable independent bookstore S. W. Welch. The used bookstore is currently paying $2,000 a month in rent and owner Stephen Welch last week told Schiller-Lavy, his landlord, that he could afford to pay about 25 per cent more when the new lease would start in August.

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