Mont La Crapaudière put up for sale in Saint-Malachie

Mont La Crapaudière, in Saint-Malachie, was put up for sale by the municipality who hopes that the recreation-tourism vocation of the place is preserved. A ski center occupied the mountain until it closed in 2004.

We hope that someone who has the means and the interest of developing this site is buyingexplains Larry Quigley, the mayor of Saint-Malachie, joined by phone.

The announcement of sale of the land was published online just over a month ago, by the Landerz agency. We learn that the site, bordered by the Etchemin river, has an area of almost 10 million square feet.

The municipality, owner of the land, specifies no price for its acquisition. Rather, she invites those interested to buy it to contact her to submit their projects to her for the site which will have to keep her recreational tourism vocation.

Our objective is to ensure that the interested parties align with the vision of the city concerning the rustic character of the place, without blocking access to the trails for citizensexplains Claudia Fofuca, the real estate broker responsible for the sale.

The value of the field is estimated at a million dollars, according to the municipal assessment.

An abandoned project

The municipality of Saint-Malachie acquired Mont La Crapaudière in 2015. The mayor Quigley recalls that it was planning to set up an outdoor park there, but that the project was abandoned.

In recent years, around twenty residential land has been sold by the municipality on the side of the mountain.

Larry Quigley dreams that within two years, the majority of residential owners on the mountain have built their residence and that a recreational tourism project was born on the toadie.

In activity from 1988 to 2004

It was in the summer of 2004 that senator Michel Biron, then owner of the La Crapaudière ski center, announced its closure, causing the loss of about sixty jobs.

At the time, the city had invested more than $ 500,000 in the aqueduct network to comply with the standards and allow the toadon to have an adequate system, but that had proven to be insufficient.

Mr. Biron said in an interview on Radio-Canada in 2004 that he had loss of more than a million dollars in the last three years of activity in the ski center.

In 2009, the Crapaudière ski lift was sold at the Mont-Comi ski resort in Bas-Saint-Laurent, for around a million dollars.

In December 1988, an editorial of the newspaper The South Voice Reclaimed the efforts that had led, that year, at the opening of the ski resort. Investments of 3.2 million in dollars of the time, had been necessary.

The newspaper then mentioned l’implication collective At the heart of the project. It is counted in hundreds, except thousands of hours of work in the form of volunteering, or even participation in the company capital actions in exchange for goods and serviceswe read

In one form or another, the involvement of the population of Saint-Malachia is remarkable and constitutes a palpable example of the ability of the environment to take charge and collaborate on a common projectcontinued the journalist.