afterwards, a longterm lease placed the Price Building under the management of the Société immobilière Trans-Québec (SITQ, now Ivanhoé Cambridge), the real estate arm of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDP). Further extensive renovation began that lasted until 2005, and included the addition of two extra floors on the inside, a terrace on the 16th floor and the installation of elevators. In 2001, the 16th and 17th floors became the Premier of Quebec′s official residence. Between 1997 and 2002, a high-end psychiatric clinic occupied floors 2 and 3 of the building. The administration has strongly affirmed the timing of this move with the Premier′s installation to be a complete coincidence. On July 12, 2009, tightrope walker Ramon Kelvink Jr. walked from the 13th floor of the building to the Château Frontenac′s 15th floor as part of the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of Quebec City. The construction of the Édifice Price was heavily criticized in the 1920s, both because it showed disrespect for Price Sr.′s intention of relocating the Price Brothers company′s operations to its original business centre of Kénogami (now Jonquière), and because the monumental construction was perceived as out of proportion in a mixed commercial and residential area where few buildings exceeded four or five floors. Criticism continued after the construction, and a few years later the city council passed a by-law limiting building heights in the old town to — a size only exceeded by one other building at the time: the then seven-floor Hôtel-Dieu de Québec. Nowadays, however, the building is considered an architectural monument in the capital and a defining element of the city's skyline. When the proposal of the Phare de Québec major skyscraper project in the Sainte-Foy area began attracting criticism, parallels with the major controversies that surrounded Édifice Price′s construction were drawn. Architecture Édifice Price, despite the original criticism, is considered to be very well integrated with its surroundings, and well adapted to a lot only wide. Of its 18 floors, 15 are used as corporate space, two constitute the Premier′s suite, and on top is a mechanical floor. This leads to conflicting numbers quoted for its floors (16, 17 and 18 have been variously reported), compounded by the fact the retrofitted extra floors are not visible from outside the building. Two elevators, one of which is used as a freight elevator, provide access to all floors. Édifice Price