Montreal plans Botanical Garden makeover after glass panes fell from greenhouses – Montreal Gazette

Oct 10, 2024

The decrepit greenhouses are the most recent, obvious sign that it’s past time to modernize the 93-year-old world-renowned site.

Montreal is planning a $450-million overhaul of its world-renowned — though aging — Botanical Garden over the next 15 years, including the replacement of its decrepit greenhouses, which have been closed to the public since January due to falling glass panes.

Some of the work has already begun, notably on the main building near the corner of Pie-IX Blvd. and Sherbrooke St. But the city’s executive committee adopted a loan bylaw Wednesday to allow the Garden to borrow up to $150 million over the next decade to shore up and eventually replace its dozens of greenhouses, which hold many rare and threatened plant species.

The falling glass is only the most recent and obvious sign that it’s past time to modernize the 93-year-old Botanical Garden, considered one of the five most significant such installations in the world.

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