The municipal elected officials of Montreal-North are growing impatient with the lack of progress in their sports center project, while the mid-term of the Plante administration is fast approaching.
The district mayor called for a demonstration on Tuesday next weekend to demand this new infrastructure.
“Northern Montrealers were given a Christmas tree by Projet Montréal,” said Christine Black. “We went from an Aquatic and Sports Center which was to be built within the current mandate to a swimming pool which will not see the light of day before the end of the next mandate. » She believes that with the current state of the file, we should no longer hope for an inauguration before 2029.
“The patience of Northern Montrealers has a limit,” she added, citing Valérie Plante’s commitments, during the last election campaign, to the effect that this project was “at the top of the list” priorities.
Mme Black revealed that the project was now valued at $155 million, up significantly. It would be built on the land of the current Garon arena, near the intersection of Pie-IX and Henri-Bourassa boulevards.
“Our administration, we made territorial equity – and not partisan – a central point of the way in which the issues were advanced,” responded Valérie Plante, on the sidelines of a press conference held at the start of the year. afternoon. She added that Montreal-North was a “priority borough” for her administration.