Plex renovation in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
Hochelaga-Maisonneuve is Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve's 1880s-1920s greystone + brick plex stock + heritage civic-monumentalist maisonneuve city hall + olympic park; rapidly-gentrifying east-end neighbourhood submarket. Hochelaga-Maisonneuve includes the early 20th-century Cité-Jardin de Maisonneuve civic-monumentalist district designed by architect Marius Dufresne (1909-1915), with the Maisonneuve City Hall + Public Market + Bain Maisonneuve as protected heritage monuments — alterations within 200m of any of these monuments trigger provincial heritage review under Loi sur le patrimoine culturel.
What a plex renovation project looks like here
Hochelaga-Maisonneuve includes the early 20th-century Cité-Jardin de Maisonneuve civic-monumentalist district designed by architect Marius Dufresne (1909-1915), with the Maisonneuve City Hall + Public Market + Bain Maisonneuve as protected heritage monuments — alterations within 200m of any of these monuments trigger provincial heritage review under Loi sur le patrimoine culturel.
The Hochelaga-Maisonneuve plex stock is currently undergoing rapid gentrification + reno-then-flip activity, and the arrondissement's 2024 renoviction-protection bylaws require detailed tenant-relocation plans and Tribunal administratif du logement coordination for any major renovation displacing existing tenants.
Montréal duplex/triplex renovation — RBQ multi-residential licence (sub-class 1.4), shared party-wall + stacked-riser coordination, exterior wrought-iron staircase preservation under PIIA. In Hochelaga-Maisonneuve specifically, 1880s-1920s greystone + brick plex stock + heritage civic-monumentalist maisonneuve city hall + olympic park; rapidly-gentrifying east-end neighbourhood stock means plex renovation scope is shaped by the neighborhood's dominant construction typology. Baily's Montréal scoping flow factors homa piia and plex rbq multi-residential licence into the estimate before a contractor is involved.
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Pre-seeded for plex renovation in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. Mention your 1,200-2,400 sqft per plex unit, your timeline, and any known constraints — Baily factors the arrondissement mercier–hochelaga-maisonneuve + rbq review queue into the scope.
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Hochelaga-Maisonneuve plex renovation projects typically run $165K–$685K. Hochelaga-Maisonneuve's 1880s-1920s greystone + brick plex stock + heritage civic-monumentalist maisonneuve city hall + olympic park; rapidly-gentrifying east-end neighbourhood stock, combined with homa piia — character review on greystone plex + maisonneuve civic-monumentalist heritage, puts most mid-complexity projects in the $425K range. Baily scopes the exact band once you describe the work.
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Same service, adjacent Montréal submarkets.