The Société québécoise des infrastructures (SQI) recently launched several calls for tenders for the construction of a multi-level parking lot on the site of the current Maisonneuve-Rosemont (HMR) hospital parking lot. Work should start on 1is July to end in June 2026. This is a first step in the modernization of the hospital, while the establishment requires major work due to its dilapidation.
This parking project will have 1,500 spaces on land adjacent to the HMR’s Rosemont pavilion, located at the intersection of boulevard Rosemont and rue Lacordaire. The parking lot could have between three and five floors mostly or exclusively reserved for hospital staff. In this scenario, the cost of the work is estimated at $80 million before taxes.
In addition to including emergency exit stairwells, ascending and descending access ramps as well as an elevator block ensuring access for people with reduced mobility, the parking lot must be designed to allow pedestrians and cyclists to move in a route parallel to the cars. It also provides for provision for bicycle racks in a secure enclosure.
The modernization of the HMR has caused much ink to flow this year. Remember that last January, The Press had learned that the government had asked the CIUSSS de l’Est-de-l’Île-de-Montréal to review its hospital modernization project to respect the initial budget it had been granted. The new bill was much higher than expected.
