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Robert Dean's

First Prize Trunk

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BELLOWS FACTORY

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The Montreal address where this existed is long gone. It’s now home to the so-called “Pigeon Hole Park"...

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So-named for what was there before, a unique multi-storey parking garage that stored cars in “pigeon holes” by use of a hydraulic lift system.

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The park has slowly developed over the last 10 years, but according to this website, it’s been sold to condo developers Mondev, who plan to build a relatively bland building on the site (rendering below, with theoretical sunlight).

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There’s a Change.org petition to save the park, which (other than the Vieux-Port itself) is one of the few green spaces in Old Montreal. 

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