CAQ abandons renovation of FACE

The cost of repairing this heritage building would have been $375 million, and it will be offered for sale, we learned.

CAQ abandons renovation of FACE

The project to renovate the old High School of Montreal buildings on University, which have housed FACE for many years, is being abandoned by the CAQ because the estimate has ratcheted up to $375 million. The schools which were meant to temporarily function as sites for FACE students will now be fixed up for their permanent use, and the University Street building put up for sale – although who would want it, and for what, is left to the imaginat…