ville-marie Gare Viger

[Kilgore Trout]

If we aren't going to integrate social housing into massive new developments like the Viger project, where will we built it? Poor people have to live somewhere. Better to have them living in economically and socially integrated neighbourhoods than ghettos.

[mtlurb]

so the best and most expensive lands in Montréal (old Montréal and next to the water svp), have to be misused for social housing?

 

Is this fiscally responsible for a city strapped for revenues?

[mtl_yul]

Malek, you know I'm totally behind you on this one.

 

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[mtl_yul]

Viger Station makeover raises concerns

Max Harrold, The Gazette

Published: Wednesday, November 21

A $400-million redevelopment plan for the former Viger Station in Old Montreal was picked over by a variety of constituents Wednesday night, some of whom said it would smother the neighbourhood's historic charm.

"Big-box stores don't have a place there," Marlene Casciaro, head of a St. Christophe St. condominium owners' group, said during a hearing held downtown by the city of Montreal's public consultations office.

Developers plan to convert the former station, built for the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1898 in the spire-rich Chateau Frontenac style, into a 250-room hotel. The project would include three towers - one of them 18 storeys high - residential units, offices and underground parking for 1,600 vehicles.

 

Covering 266,000 square feet, about the size of Complexe Desjardins, the project has been touted as the biggest private real-estate venture in Montreal since Place Ville Marie opened in 1962.

Casciaro estimated such a project would need to rely on large-scale commercial tenants, which she said are anathema to Old Montreal's character.

Advocates for the poor worried the project will exclude low-income residents of the Ville Marie borough.

At least 30 per cent of the project's housing units should be set aside for low- and moderate-income residents, said Éric Michaud, a spokesperson for Habiter Ville Marie, a coalition of community groups.

"The kind of (high-end) residents that will be living there tend to come and go a lot," he said. "It would be good to have more stable (lower-income) residents there."

Cameron Charlebois, general manager of the project, said construction would start next summer if city councillors approve the project early next year.

mharrold@thegazette.canwest.com

 

 

© The Gazette

[mtl_yul]

Low income residents are MORE STABLE :duh: :duh:

[Philippe]

"Big-box stores don't have a place there," Marlene Casciaro, head of a St. Christophe St. condominium owners' group

 

De quoi qu'a parle elle...

[Ornello Mastrocola]

Yet another irrelevant attempt in destroying a great project. We love doing this shit in Montreal!! We can not think too far ahead in this city because our incredibly small brains can not cope us moving into the next decade...but than I digress

[yarabundi]

I think we should not be worried. It's only two person's opinions. The project is too far into the making to be cancelled.

[mtlurb]

faaaaaaaaaaaak ridicule.... ça invente à tours de bras.

[MTLskyline]

The project would include three towers - one of them 18 storeys high - residential units, offices and underground parking for 1,600 vehicles.

LOL, why is an 18-storey "tower" news worthy. It's not that tall and its close to downtown!