Peck Building

Peck Building
Peck Building
Édifice Peck
	View from Boulevard Saint-Laurent
General information
Type	Repurposed textile factory
Location	Mile End, Montreal
Address	5505 Boulevard Saint-Laurent, Montreal, QC H2T 1S6; Canada
Coordinates	45°31′34″N 73°35′54″W / 45.52611°N 73.59833°W
Current tenants	Ubisoft Montreal
Completed	1904
Cost	$50,000 (equivalent to $1,797,812 in 2023)
Technical details
Floor count	5
Floor area	251,000 square feet (23,300 m2)
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Joseph Perrault; Simon Lesage;

The Peck Building is a repurposed textile factory in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Completed in 1904, the five-story brick building initially housed John W. Peck & Co., Montreal's second-largest clothing manufacturer at the time. The company oversaw the Peck's expansion, completed in 1913, and remained the sole occupant of the building until it was subdivided in the 1930s. Textile manufacturing remained the main practice amongst its tenants until the 1990s, when globalization drove out the industry from the city.

The workshops were gradually repurposed. The animation software designer Discreet Logic occupied the top floor between 1993 and 1997, during which time it produced technology for blockbuster films like Titanic. When it moved out, the French gaming company Ubisoft took over the space for its recently opened Montreal branch. Ubisoft Montreal, becoming the largest video game studio in the world by workforce, rapidly grew into occupying the entire building.

The presence of the Peck Building in the heart of the Mile End, at the corner of Boulevard Saint-Laurent and Rue Saint-Viateur, played a major role in the development of the neighbourhood. With John W. Peck & Co. and Ubisoft Montreal, it has twice housed the largest employer in the Mile End over the span of more than a century.