The mayor, Gilbert Dardel, is a farmer, on council so long (42 years) that he says he came with the furniture, making him, too, a walking business directory.
“We have two gas stations, one dépanneur, one grocery store, two or three restaurants, a hairdresser, a couple of other things,” he said, later mentioning a medium-sized sawmill.
Thus his reaction about 15 months ago when a proposal arrived for a 54-storey tower about two kilometres from the centre of Namur, in the middle of a forest, reaching 670 feet into the sky, easily the tallest building west of Montreal.
”My first impression was, tabernouche, I never thought a building like that would ever come to Namur,” he said one day last week. “I thought this is maybe off the charts, that’s for sure.”
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