The Garment District (french: Cité de la Mode) is a List of neighbourhoods in Montreal, neighbourhood in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located primarily along Chabanel Street in the Ahuntsic neighbourhood of the Ahuntsic-Cartierville Boroughs of Montreal, borough. The Chabanel (AMT), Chabanel Station (train) is located close by.

History

Montreal's Garment District was originally located Downtown Montreal, downtown on De Maisonneuve Boulevard between Berri Street and Saint Laurent Boulevard. Furriers such as the Hudson's Bay Company and warehouses lined the streets in this area at the time. The Garment District later moved to the Mile End, Montreal, Mile End neighbourhood in the northernmost edge of the borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal. The massive 1960s buildings built by the fur traders along De Gaspé Street still stand today. It has since moved again to its current location, along Chabanel Street. From 1964 to 1985 and running from Saint-Laurent Boulevard in the east to Meilleur Avenue in the west, eight large multi-storey buildings were built along Chabanel. The first address is 99 Chabanel (500,000 sq. ft.), followed by 111, 125, 225
333
433 and 555 Chabanel followed. The largest of the buildings is 333 Chabanel (approximately one million square feet) which boasts the second largest floorplate on the island of Montreal (110,000 sq. ft.) after Place Bonaventure. The total square footage of the buildings along Chabanel is estimated at five million. The street is still considered the centre of the fashion industry in Canada, with several hundred companies and thousands of employees operating from Chabanel addresses. However, in recent years with manufacturing moving offshore due to the G8, G-8 policy of "trade-not-aid" for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) Market Access Initiative, contraction in the industry and vacancy rates increasing, there has been a move t
promote the area
to other industries, and one of the buildings (125 Chabanel) has been slated to be redeveloped as a residential condominium project.

Chabanel in Literature

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The Rent Collector
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B. Glen Rotchin
which was a finalist for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award is set at 99 Chabanel.

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