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Mile End residents angry that developers are pushing out indie stores "These businesses are closing not because they're 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 S.W. Welch bookstore, which will probably have to move because of a huge hike in rent.. Photo by P...

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 the board the first time I was there, and I don’t believe in messing with a good thing. Even with e...

Article content There’s a David versus Goliath battle going in the heart of Mile End, and it looks like Goliath has the upper hand in this all-too-familiar tale of gentrification in a hot hip neighbourhood. Goliath in this case is Montreal real-estate firm Shiller-Lavy Realties, which owns several buildings on St-Viateur St., and the underdog fighting for its life is the venerable independent bookstore S. W. Welch. The used bookstore is currently paying $2,000 a month in rent and owner Stephen Welch last week told Schiller-Lavy, his landlord, that he could afford to pay about 25 per cent mo...

Long-running Mile End bookstore says it will be forced to close after landlord demands rent hike Dan Spector © Dan Spector / Global News S.W. Welch Books says it has been hit with a 150 per cent rent increase, and will need to shut its doors. Feb 26, 2021. A growing number of Montrealers are expressing outrage about the fate of a small independent book store in the Mile End. S.W. Welch Books has been operating for nearly 40 years. But because its landlord is imposing a huge rent increase, the owner says the store will likely be forced to close. Owner Stephen Welch says he h...