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For $593,000, give or take a few thousand, you could buy a detached four-bedroom home in St-Laurent with a two-car garage, large finished basement and three bathrooms, near an elementary school.

Or a two-storey penthouse apartment on St-Dominique St. in the Plateau with 18-foot ceilings, a private, 300-square-foot terrace and a modern kitchen outfitted with granite countertops.

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Or, if you’re the city of Montreal, you could rebuild a gazebo.

$592,668 is the projected price for the gazebo that has been promised since 2011 to honour the memory of Mordecai Richler, who died in 2001. The city of Montreal is in the process of restoring the once ornate but now decrepit pavilion, built in 1928 as a stage for musical ensembles, on the eastern flank of Mount Royal overlooking Park Ave.