On December 11, the new Centech premises were officially inaugurated in the former Dow Planetarium by the Director General of the École de technologie supérieure, Mr. Pierre Dumouchel, and by the Director of Technological Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Centech Executive Director, Mr. Richard Chénier, in the presence of the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Mr. David Lametti, the Minister of Education and Higher Education, Mr. Jean-François Roberge and the Head of the Smart City, Information Technology, Innovation and Advanced Education Executive Committee for the City of Montreal, Mr. François William Croteau.
Closed since 2011 after 45 years of existence and transferred to the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) by the City of Montreal, the conversion project by Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes aimed to rehabilitate this iconic Dow Planetarium building located at 1000 St. Jacques in Griffintown, in the heart of the Quartier de l?Innovation to welcome Centech, a business incubator. Founded by ÉTS, Centech is a non-profit organization that aims to support technology companies by promoting their economic development and technology transfer. In the spirit of creating synergies between the university community, the business community, the citizens and the ÉTS community, the new vocation of the Planetarium commissioned the typology of spaces: spaces to encourage encounters, collaboration and r...