Breathing new life into an iconic piece of Montréal’s history — the former printing house for the Montreal Gazette — we have reimagined it as the nation’s first integrated urban food ecosystem.
Our innovative approach combines controlled environment agriculture (CEA), food preparation & sale, agricultural research & development, and publicly-accessible food-centered programming in a single, holistically conceived commercial asset.
SEEDOne® comprises over 220,000sf of state-of-the-art hospitality, indoor agriculture, and life sciences spaces.
These include:
80,000sf of nutraceutical & bio-pharma laboratories over four floors
35,000sf of fully contained urban farming on two floors, with viewing and engagement spaces
50,000sf of food-centric hospitality spaces in three distinct environments
10,000sf of on-site processing, cold storage, and loading
State of the art, sustainable electro-mechanical systems including on-site solar
Public access to hospitality & farm spaces
First published on August 28th, 1785 and still in circulation today, The Montreal Gazette is the oldest Canadian newspaper still in circulation today. Its creator, Fleury Mesplet, was a French printer who had been brought to Montreal by Benjamin Franklin during the Americans’ attempt to convince French Canadians to join their Revolution, next door. When that mission failed, Mesplet stayed and started the paper.
Mesplet was actually imprisoned by British authorities twice in the paper's early years for content deemed seditious, which is a remarkable origin story for what became an establishment paper.
The building at 1000 St. Antoine Ouest dates to 1925 and was built for the Gazette Printing Co. Limited by Richard Smeaton White, the paper’s former publisher and then-President.