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The Berri substation is aging and needs to be replaced to ensure downtown Montreal and the Quartier Latin continue to receive electricity, Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec says. (Radio-Canada)<\/p>\nHydro-Qu\u00e9bec says it won’t build a new substation on a green space in Montreal’s Quartier Latin after all.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Instead, the state-owned electricity company will build its substation at the old Misericordia Hospital, a largely vacant building at the corner of Saint-Hubert Street and Ren\u00e9-Levesque Street East.<\/p>\n
The new substation, which Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec has described as a necessary replacement for the aging Berri substation, had been the subject of controversy because it would have taken away one of the only green spaces in the Quartier Latin: a field south of the Grande Biblioth\u00e8que.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But now, Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec says it has found the right solution. The company says the new substation at the hospital will be a two-for-one, combining the Berri substations and planned Dorchester substations into one.<\/p>\n
Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec says it was able to combine the two projects, distributing electricity to the downtown core and the Quartier Latin using a single substation thanks in part to new technology.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Berri substation is aging and needs to be replaced to ensure downtown Montreal and the Quartier Latin continue to receive electricity, Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec says. (Radio-Canada)<\/p>\n
But the new substation will only be up and running by 2034, the company said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec said it would consider the patrimonial value of the Misericordia Hospital in its plans. There will be an architectural contest to develop a plan that integrates the substation “harmoniously” into the urban landscape, the company’s news release said.<\/p>\n
The company also said it intended to consult experts and people in the community to look at ways to incorporate other community uses and affordable housing into the project.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Misericordia Hospital, run by the\u00a0Sisters of the Misericordia, was largely built in the mid-1800s to serve orphans and single mother’s in Montreal’s east end. It was used as a long-term care hospital between 1975 and 2012, but was abandoned in 2013, according to H\u00e9ritage Montreal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec says it won’t build a new substation on a green space in Montreal’s Quartier Latin after all.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-114985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}