The Quartier des spectacles hosts nearly 8,500 jobs linked to cultural activities, from education and creation to production, exhibition and broadcasting.

Features of the square include a water fountain with 235 in-ground jets, four light towers, two glass-encased restaurants, a grassy slope and granite walkways.

The district includes the Louis Bohème, a 28-storey condo tower designed also by Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux.

The tower was approved despite objections from Montreal International Jazz Festival president Alain Simard.

Inadequate foundations, damage and wrong choice of joint sealers in 2011 also led to hundreds of thousands of dollars in repaving costs.