Halte 18, a brand new terrace sheltered from orange cones and heavy machinery, was installed in the Saint-Sauveur district, a small oasis located on Courcelette Street to allow people in the neighborhood and visitors to take holidays for construction sites.
This ephemeral terrace is another initiative of the Commercial Development Company (SDC) in the Saint-Sauveur district, in order to help traders who have to compose with imposing sites that have affected commercial activity for two years.
“This is a reaction to the fact that we are in summer, we have major work in Saint-Vallier and there is a disappointment not to be able to have a terrace and not to have as a festive summer side”, underlines Nadia Reghai Gagnon, general manager of the SDC Saint-Sauveur.
The terrace is installed at the back of the Must stores and the Galerie du Meuble, on rue Courcelette, very close to rue Marie-de-l’Incarnation. It gives directly on the cycle path, which offers a little greenery to those who want to flee the work.
“Do not always be in the orange cones, you have to get out of that,” continues Mme Reghai Gagnon, who underlines in passing having received several reservations for the site.
Launch of the very first edition of Halte N18 Must.
Photo STEVENS LEBLANC
For the SDC, it is also a way of making yourself known to the merchants located in this sector of the Saint-Sauveur district.
“This transit axis, we will have fun getting them,” she says.
Sandra Baudouin, director general of Must and the Galerie du Meuble, did not hesitate to offer her parking spaces to create a space that could come back next year if success was there.
“I provide everything and it’s upme Baudouin.
A beer bike
Six district traders will alternate to offer a food service whose prices will not exceed the amount of $ 10 on the menu.
“And the menu is made the same morning. Every day it will change, ”says Mme Reghai Gagnon.
There will be, in particular, the Louis Marchand and company bakery, Shogun, at Tao and Siboire Saint-Vallier.
The latter may not go unnoticed for his beer service.
“He comes with his bicycle-cargo, it’s really great, it creates an entire event,” said the director of the SDC.
The Vélo-Cargo follows the same principle as that of street trucks, with this difference that it is a bicycle which carries a cargo of beer in barrels.
In addition, throughout the summer, culinary miniateliers, spontaneous tastings and acoustic musical sessions will be offered.
