{{short description|Building complex in Montreal, Quebec, Canada}} {{Coord|45.506484|N|73.562302|W|format=dms|display=title}} thumb|Complexe Guy-Favreau seen from René Lévesque Boulevard [[Image:Complexe Guy-Favreau, residential section, Montreal 2005-10-21.JPG|thumb|"Les habitations du centre-ville", the southern residential section of the building complex on De la Gauchetière Street]] '''Complexe Guy-Favreau''' is a twelve-storey building complex containing Canadian government offices built in 1984. It is located at 200 René Lévesque Boulevard in Ville-Marie, Montréal and extends over a six-acre plot of land, formerly part of the Montreal Chinatown.<ref name=py>{{citation|title=Chinatown: An illustrated history of the Chinese Communities of Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax |last=Yee |first=Paul |publisher=James Lorimer & Company Limited |location=Toronto, ON, CAN |year=2005}}</ref> The complex is named after Guy Favreau, a former MP, federal cabinet minister and briefly Quebec Superior Court Justice.
The building complex came about as a joint venture between the federal government, which served as the head of the project, as well as private businesses, the City of Montreal, and the Desjardins Group.<ref>[https://www.erudit.org/revue/cgq/1983/v27/n71/021609ar.pdf Clément Demers, ''Le nouveau centre-ville de Montréal'', 1983, p.215]</ref> The multifunctional complex is part of the Montreal underground city network and contains various Canadian governmental offices, rental properties, a housing cooperative, commercial units, a daycare facility, and a small park at its centre.
==See also== *Complexe Desjardins *Chinatown, Montreal
==References== {{reflist}} * [http://www.cpeguyfavreau.com/ CPE]
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