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Some luxury brands have very, very favorable exclusivity contracts with Holt Renfrew with varying end dates.

My goodness the interior looks like Promenades St Bruno but with a bit more glass....

Everything the MTQ has touched around Vaudreuil has turned to S**t. I'm thinking they're trying to screw over our mayor since he's been abusing them in the media for the last 5 or so years. After more black eyes than they can count, they're figuring "why not, let's give Pilon what he gave us". I mean it doesn't help that the map of Vaudreuil looks like a raving lunatic drew it, which contributes to absolute gridlock even on the weekends...

They've now installed two additional luffing-type cranes at the north & south ends of the site, bringing the total to 10 cranes. I was talking to one of the construction coordinators the other day and supposedly they've been pushed to find solutions to guarantee complete handover by August 2026. So an additional 2-4 cranes will be installed along with a workforce augmentation of 10-15%..

That's gonna be fun. Red Bull events are always wild.

Sounds like they are promoting Quebec as a welfare state to promote "equality". Or am I missing something? One thing is for sure, you don't create societal wealth by over taxing the rich when, somehow, $100K is considered "rich" during a time of high inflation.

At what point in time is continuing to court large datacenters with generous tax credits and the promise of low electricity rates going to lead to a net negative financial gain? Job creation and datacenters don't go hand in hand with each employing, at most, a few dozen full time workers. Plus we're already on the precipice of an electricity crunch on a distribution system that increasingly feels like its held together with a bit of duct tape and a pair of rusty staples. These facilities put exponentially more stress on the system relative to their size, forcing additional expenditures on back-end electrical generation to keep up with demand. We shouldn't be happy these companies are setting up shop here. At least not until Hydro Quebec gets its act together.

LOL, what? How would this be managed? Are they gonna put Youppi behind a barrier that opens when you swipe your credit card or something? Is he going to walk around with a bunch of Square-totting bouncers that shake down parents for money if their kids get close enough to snap a photo?

But bringing the LA Kings for an exhibition game to a city with zero attachment to the franchise isn't expensive apparently. Sorry but I had to.... Joking aside, there will be fees for the parking regardless of whether its multi level or not. This is a public institution so our tax dollars are paying for it (and the parking) regardless as well. Fees won't "pay back" the structure, our taxes will and obviously, based on numerous surveys and petitions people in this region would be more than happy to have parking density versus what's been planned.

So essentially a mix of some interesting new restaurants alongside a bunch of Foodtastic sub-brands. Sounds like what Fairview has been trying to do.

The whole parking plan is an absolute joke. I'm not sure where this province's distaste for multi level parking structures comes from (for public transport & otherwise) but it needs to stop. Yes, people will DRIVE to a hospital especially in this region and NO a lot of people who drive to a hospital might have problems walking a half kilometer to an appointment. This situation also eliminates the possibility of expansion without spending even more money in the future (due to inflation) to build a multi level parking lot when part of the existing one will be eliminated for new outbuildings. Planting trees doesn't fix the issue in any way, shape or form. The whole plan is shortsighted and downright idiotic.

This looks so unbelievably sad.

The provincial government needs to step in and limit or outright remove the rights of municipalities to negatively impact developments in TOD zones. This is proof positive of that.

This. For example, Yorkdale has an Aldo right next to the Rolex store.

Interesting, this bill has elements I just mentioned the other day about taxation status of low cost housing developments. The problem here again is that Quebec is simply giving municipalities the TOOLS but very few, if any, end up using them. And forget about the Plante administration even thinking about giving a tax break to the big, bad developers. Another issue this causes is determining what is and is not an "underutilized" building. Who determines and monitors this? It sounds like another level of bureaucracy that would cause cities to hire on inspectors, administrators, etc. which would eventually negate any additional taxes they accumulate through fines. A great example: I have several rental properties that are on AirBnB and Giggster. In total they're booked for on average 65% of the year. Is that underutilized? Is it properly utilized? Who determines this? I'd think the tens of thousands I pay yearly in property taxes, small business taxes, payroll taxes, CITQ fees, etc. not to mention the sales taxes I generate would be much more beneficial to the government than the threat of a nebulous additional tax causing me to yank my listings altogether and sell my properties at the market rate, shelter the majority of capital gains tax and never think about red tape again. Which, by the way, wouldn't help the low cost housing pool one iota.