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Ste. Anne St. to get a whole new look

Question now is: How will face of the street change? Residents will have a say

The Gazette
Thursday, October 9, 2008

The town of Ste. Anne de Bellevue will have input on how its main street will look like starting this fall.
Ste. Anne Mayor Bill Tierney said after much planning, the town is ready to bring its Main Street project to public consultations.
All the town’s committees will be called into a meeting with the town council in the next few weeks, and an open invitation will go out to the public.
Tierney said Ste. Anne St. must be repaved, and the sidewalks will be redone. So the town wants to take advantage of the project to give the commercial area a new look.
“We’re looking at how to integrate the main street better into the boardwalk,” Tierney said. “But the question is, what will the look of the place be? What kind of furniture will we put in and how will people redo the fronts of their buildings?”
The town’s portion of the project is expected to cost about $5 million, and the town might provide grants for business owners to redo the facades of their buildings.
Tierney said while the town must repave the road and sidewalk, it’s a responsibility of the Montreal agglomeration to replace the pipes underneath the street.
He’s hoping the work can all be done next year, but it will take some co-ordinating with the city of Montreal, which controls the agglomeration.
The revamp has been in the works for about a decade. However, it was fraught with delays while the town was part of the larger megacity of Montreal.
Now, however, Tierney said he expects there won’t be any more delays.