History of underground Montreal

The Histoire of underground Montreal begins with the bond with the underground city which is created with the construction of the Place City-Marie, which is a Tour of offices and a underground Shopping mall. This took place in 1962, with an aim of covering an open hole of the north of railway ways of the Central station of Montreal. A tunnel thus joined the City-Marie place to the central station and the hotel Fairmont the Queen Élizabeth.

Ramifications

Subway of Montreal

In 1966, the opening of the Métro of Montreal has creates tunnels uniting together the station Bonaventure, the hotel Château Champlain, the high-rise office building of the Place of Canada, the Place Bonaventure, the Central station of Montreal and the Gare Windsor, forming the core of the underground city. The station Public garden-Victoria was seen connected to the Tour of the Stock Exchange.

STCUM had like policy to add to the underground city and to offer the air lines above the entries of subway station for construction by long beams, a manner of acquiring excellent real estate values. When the subway was inaugurated, in 1966, ten buildings were already connected directly to the subway stations. The development was continued until that there does not remain free entry at the stations McGill, Bonaventure, Guy-Concordia and Place-with Armes.

Shopping malls, high-rise office buildings and stations

In 1974, the complex of turn of offices Complexe Desjardins is built, stimulative construction “in the second center town” of a segment of underground city between the station Place-Of-Arts and of Place-with Armes, via the Place of Arts, the Complexe Desjardins, the Complexe Guy-Favreau of the federal government, and the palate of the congresses.

Between 1984 and 1992, the size of the underground city was seen increased, with the construction of three shopping malls bound by tunnels, in the sector of the stations Peel and McGill: the Mount-Royal Course, the Place Montreal Trust and the Walks of the Cathedral (built under the Cathedral Christ Church). The McGill station had already been dependant with the Bay, Eaton (now Wings of the Mode), the center Eaton, and two other complexes commercial and of offices. Between 1984 and 1989, the underground city increased, passing 12 kilometers of passages to 22.

Projects of scale contributed to increase the underground city throughout the Années 1990, including the 1000 of Gauchetière (the building highest in Montreal), the 1250 Rene-Lévesque, and the Center of world commerce of Montreal. These spaces of offices have a secondary commercial sector, but they employ their connection at the underground city like sales outlet for their space of offices. Moreover, the construction of a tunnel between the Eaton center and the City-Marie place consolidated the two central halves of the underground city. The construction of the Center Bell connected the subway station Lucien-The Allier to the underground city, just as it replaced the station Windsor by the new station of suburban train, the Gare Lucien-The Allier.

Recent developments

In 2003, the complete rebuilding of the international Quartier of Montreal consolidated all the separate segments of the central underground city with continuous pedestrian corridors. The construction of the head offices of ICAO joined the Place Bonaventure to the station Public garden-Victoria. This station was in its turn united with the Palate of the Congresses.

As the section Place-of-Arts/Place-in Armes, it was united via the new building of the case of deposit and placement and a tunnel under the Place Jean-Paul-Riopelle. Particular attraction, the new sections of tunnel in the international district contain educational and artistic postings financed by the principal museums of Montreal. From this construction, one can now walk through all the center section of the district of City-Marie completely under ground, of the Place of Arts at the Center Bell.

See too

History of Montreal

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