People looking for Montreal’s new cultural quarter, the Quartier des spectacles, will surely know when they have arrived—rows of luminous red dots are projected onto the area’s sidewalks. The scheme is part of an urban improvement project meant to bring attention to a neighborhood that’s home to some 30 different performing arts venues, but that was all too often ignored.
“It’s an area that has an existing concentration of cultural assets, and it should be a major destination in Montreal,” says Anjali Mishra, interim general manager of the Quartier des spectacles Partnership, a nonprofit organization founded by area stakeholders, the city, and various levels of government. “Unfortunately, it also held a connotation of being a red light district. It’s one of the few areas of the city that hasn’t been revitalized yet, so we began with these efforts.”
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