SEEDOne occupies the former Montréal Gazette printing house, a landmark 1925 building at the centre of downtown Montréal's most connected and highest-traffic corridor. Purpose-converted into the country's first integrated urban food ecosystem, it offers laboratory, farming, hospitality, and market tenants a location without parallel in the city.

Transit

The building sits at one of downtown Montréal's most exceptional transit intersections. The Bonaventure metro station is directly across the street — putting the building within reach of the entire island's population. The REM (Réseau express métropolitain), just minutes away, extends that reach to the North Shore, South Shore, and Laval, giving laboratory and office tenants a genuinely city-wide labour draw. Gare Centrale, sharing the same transit node, adds intercity rail connectivity to Québec City, Ottawa, Toronto, and beyond — meaning tenants and their clients can arrive without a car from virtually anywhere in the province.

Customers & Footfall

The building's food and beverage tenants benefit from one of the densest and most varied customer catchments in the city. Centre Bell — home to the Canadiens and Montréal's premier concert venue, with a capacity of 21,000 — sits two blocks to the west, generating predictable pre- and post-event traffic on over 100 event nights per year. Place Bonaventure, two blocks east, hosts major trade shows, immersive exhibitions, and consumer events throughout the year. Together, these two anchors alone deliver hundreds of thousands of occasion-driven visitors to the immediate vicinity annually.

Within a 5–10 minute walk: Concordia University, McGill University, and the École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS) collectively enrol tens of thousands of students and faculty — a built-in daytime population for food retail and a natural pipeline of research talent and institutional partnership for laboratory tenants. Old Montréal, steps to the east, adds a further layer of tourism and hospitality demand.

The surrounding blocks are dense with hotels (five of them within 500m, totaling over 3,000 guestrooms), residential towers, and commercial office buildings, ensuring strong breakfast-through-late-night demand across all of SEEDOne's hospitality formats — not just on event nights.

Research & Academic Synergies

For life sciences and agri-tech laboratory tenants, proximity to ETS and McGill (both with active engineering and agricultural science programs) creates direct access to graduate research talent, potential joint ventures, and institutional credibility. The building's 80,000 sf of nutraceutical and bio-pharma laboratory space, combined with 35,000 sf of operational urban farming on-site, is uniquely positioned to support applied research programs that require both wet lab infrastructure and live growing environments under one roof — an arrangement available nowhere else in Montréal.