Montreal city hall renovations overbudget, over deadline
Global News
The renovation of Montreal's city hall started in 2019 and was supposed to be finished by now, and the cost has jumped three-fold. The revised move-in date is early 2024.
Construction workers continue the massive renovation and restoration job on Montreal’s city hall.
The project started in 2019 and was supposed to be finished by now. The revised schedule has a new deadline of the end of this year.
The budget has ballooned to $211 million from an initial $66 million when first announced in 2016. At the time, the plan was to bring the century-old heritage building up to code. Since then, the plans have changed to completely overhaul the interior and improve the exterior.
City officials blame the pandemic, supply chain issues and unforeseen construction circumstances for the cost overruns and delays.
“With the pandemic and everything, the schedule has been a bit all upside down,” said Dominique Ollivier, Montreal’s executive committee president and Projet Montréal city councillor for Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie.
Ollivier has never worked in the original city hall, a building that dates back to 1878 when it was first built. She’s looking forward to moving in when the job is complete.
“It’s the house of the citizens basically, so it’s going to be nice to have people coming back to city hall,” she said.
All elected officials and city employees have been working in an adjacent building while work progresses.
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