Montreal does not have any shortages of dilapidated industrial spaces living in limbo of development that can help or hinder its neighborhood. The former
CN rail yards in
Pointe-Saint-Charles is 35 hectares of land that was sold to Group Mach in 2006 for 1$.
Propositions
for the space have included big box stores and a casino, both of which
have been nixed in part by opposition efforts of several citizen-led
community groups. In more
recent news, the 90 000 square foot building
Bâtiment 7 has been given ownership to the collective
7 à nous and the
Darling Foundry to develop the building into artist spaces, a gallery, a café and more. Hooray!! Read more
here.
Recently, I got to poke around the compound while on a shoot. We were one of three shoots that were on the rail yard site that day-a commercial and a film were also taking advantage of the photogenic area. The following photos are from the smaller warehouse adjacent to Bâtiment 7.
the model's feet in a shallow pond of accumulated water drippings, pigeon poop and algae
