Gatineau City Council adopted on Tuesday the renewal of the lease that has allowed the mini-putt to occupy a piece of city land at the corner of boulevard de la Gappe and rue de Sillery since the early 1990s. The annual rent will be $28,000 per year and will be adjusted based on the increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) starting in the fifth year of the agreement.
The mini-putt on Boulevard de la Gappe has occupied municipal land since the early 1990s. Its lease has just been renewed for a period of ten years. (Patrick Woodbury/Le Droit Archives)
Gatineau’s Authentic Mini-Putt has found itself in turmoil a few times in recent years. The business, along with the adjacent Parc des Draveurs, was on a list of land that could host the future headquarters of the Gatineau police in 2023. However, elected officials agreed last spring to build the future headquarters at 975, boulevard Saint-Joseph.
The Gatineau residents will keep a mini-golf course, but will eventually lose the Anik bowling alley, which will have to be demolished to make way for the headquarters.
In 2013, the star player who had his moments of glory at the Mini-Putt Challenge broadcast for several years on the Réseau des sports (RDS), Carl Carmoni, stepped up to encourage the City of Gatineau to renew the lease of the mini-golf on boulevard de la Gappe for the first time, one of the franchise’s that was aging best in Quebec, he said. It is the terms of this previous lease that was due to expire at the end of the month that have just been renewed by the city council.
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