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A major rent increase by landlord Shiller Lavy forced the bookseller to close his Mile End store.

On the front lines of Mile Ends chicken war WEEKEND READ | In a neighbourhood that "has changed a lot," the impending opening of two new restaurants has ruffled feathers. Author of the article: TCha Dunlevy  •  Montreal Gazette Publishing date: Apr 17, 2021  •  2 hours ago  •  5 minute read  •  “I know everyone is looking to make money, but this will affect us,” says Elizabeth Saavedra, co-owner of Rôtisserie Serrano Bar-B-Q, which has been serving the neighbourho...

Article content As a francophone who has lived in the Mile End for more than a decade, Stéphanie Bourbeau rarely visits the S.W. Welch bookstore. And yet, when the teacher saw the ‘For Rent’ sign recently in the window of the venerable independent business, she was determined to act, especially after witnessing the closing of the café venue Le Cagibi in 2018. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Mile End residents hold read-in protest over risi...

Article content One phone call ended a bitter battle pitting the citizens of Mile End against one of the city’s most prominent real-estate firms. On Friday, Danny Lavy, co-owner of Schiller-Lavy Realties, called up Stephen Welch, the 68-year-old owner of venerable Mile End bookstore S.W. Welch, and said: Let’s make a deal. Late last month, a For Rent sign went up in the window of S.W. Welch on St-Viateur St. and almost immediately locals were up in arms, angry that another small indie busin...

"I went up a little and he went down a lot," the bookseller says of his deal with Shiller-Lavy Realties.

Mile End residents angry that developers are pushing out indie stores "These businesses are closing not because theyre not working, but because they have a landlord who is raising the rent in unreasonable fashion." Author of the article: Brendan Kelly  •  Montreal Gazette Publishing date: Mar 04, 2021  •  March 4, 2021  •  4 minute read  •  Projet Montréal councillor Richard Ryan has lived in the Mile End for 35 years and currently lives just around the corner from the...

Article content There’s a sandwich I’ve been dreaming about for years. Spicy Hungarian salami on a fresh, soft cheese bun, with lettuce, tomatoes, extra pickles — the whole thing fairly dripping with mayonnaise and yellow mustard. That was my sandwich at Boulangerie Clarke, the beloved Mile End shop that closed in 2015. How exactly this came to be my sandwich, I couldn’t tell you. In the regular course of things, it never occurs to me to eat spicy salami. But that’s what I chose off t...