Complexe Guy-Favreau is a twelve-storey building complex containing

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offices built in 1984. It is located at 200 René Lévesque Boulevard in Ville-Marie,

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and extends over a six-acre plot of land, formerly part of the Montreal Chinatown. The complex is named after Guy Favreau, a former MP, federal cabinet minister and briefly

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Justice. The building complex came about as a joint venture between the federal government, who served as the head of the project, as well as private businesses, the City of

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple- ...

, and the

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.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 center.

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