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  1. À titre d'information seulement (don't shoot the messenger!)
  2. Et qu'une discussion y existe déjà, lol. Delete!
  3. Je vois qu'il n'a pas encore reçu une approbation finale de la ville. À déplacer dans le dossier propositions.
  4. Selon La Presse, une nouvelle tour de 40 étages au coin de René-Lévesque et Lucien-L'Allier : http://affaires.lapresse.ca/economie/immobilier/201410/31/01-4814634-une-nouvelle-tour-de-40-etages-au-centre-ville.php
  5. Lyle

    Tour Centreville ~ 58 étages

    So I can buy a parking lot downtown and turn it into a garbage dump?
  6. Here's something to help your blood pressure: Comité pour le sain redéveloppement de Griffintown Committee for the Sustainable Redevelopment of Griffintown Réunion publique : Mercredi le 6 février, à 19h00 au 741 rue des Seigneurs (au nord de St. Jacques) Le Comité pour le sain redéveloppement de Griffintown tiendra une réunion publique ouverte à tous ceux qui se sentent intéressés ou concernés par le redéveloppement de ce quartier historique. Nous souhaitons connaître votre opinion, alors que nous nous préparons pour les consultations publiques qui auront lieu à la fin février. info: csrgriffintown@gmail.com _____________________________________________________________________________ Open meeting: Wednesday February 6, 7:00 P.M. 741 des Seigneurs (just north of St. Jacques) The Committee for the Sustainable Redevelopment of Griffintown is having a public meeting for those interested in the redevelopment of this historic neighbourhood. We want to hear your opinions as we prepare for the public consultations at the end of February. info: csrgriffintown@gmail.com
  7. Opinion Libre-Opinion: Griffintown n'a pas besoin d'un mégaprojet Judith Bauer, Griffintown Christophe Gobeil, Griffintown Édition du mercredi 23 janvier 2008 Personne ne conteste que Griffintown ait besoin d'être redéveloppé, mais avons-nous vraiment besoin d'un mégaprojet pour le faire? Nous restaurons depuis quatre ans une maison patrimoniale du milieu du XIXe siècle à Griffintown, et voilà que Devimco veut nous forcer à la leur vendre pour pouvoir «redévelopper». Les expropriations ont maintenant commencé avec 20 premières propriétés mises sous réserve la semaine dernière. C'est bien une première au Canada que de voir une municipalité exproprier des terrains au bénéfice d'un promoteur privé! Attendez-vous à voir la tendance se développer si le coup réussit! Tout ce qu'un promoteur aura à faire, ce sera de promettre des impôts fonciers plus élevés à la ville, et les droits des propriétaires en place partiront en fumée. Dans le cas présent, Devimco exige aussi que la ville investisse de grosses sommes en infrastructures, avec un tramway et des connexions souterraines pour les services municipaux. Tout cela de la part d'une société qui ne possède pas un seul pouce carré à Griffintown actuellement et qui n'a pas payé un sou d'impôt foncier à la ville. Certains parlent de Griffintown comme d'une zone déchue du centre-ville alors qu'il s'agit en fait d'un «triomphe» de zonage municipal. Il y a 44 ans, ce quartier était résidentiel et comptait des centaines d'habitations multifamiliales à haute densité. La ville a ensuite rezoné le quartier pour l'industrie légère, et il est devenu difficile d'obtenir une hypothèque; tout immeuble démoli n'a pu être remplacé que par un bâtiment destiné à l'industrie légère. Aujourd'hui, il ne reste qu'une poignée de maisons en plus de plusieurs bâtiments de style industriel, hébergeant de nombreuses entreprises et employant de nombreux travailleurs. Et maintenant, les propriétaires qui ont tenu bon, qui ont suivi les règlements et qui ont patiemment attendu le changement de zonage promis par le plan d'urbanisme de la Ville de Montréal vont être forcés de vendre leur propriété à Devimco à un prix établi avant le rezonage du quartier. La forte augmentation de valeur que prendront les terrains au moment du changement de zonage sera offerte en cadeau à Devimco, une manne financière instantanée. Pourquoi ne pas tout simplement renverser la décision de zonage semi-industriel prise par la Ville de Montréal il y a 40 ans? C'est elle qui a tué Griffintown. Si redévelopper est à l'ordre du jour, il suffit que la ville zone de nouveau le quartier pour usage commercial et résidentiel. Nous sommes tous prêts à accueillir le redéveloppement de ce quartier historique. Mais ce devrait être un processus évolutif passant par une série de projets à l'échelle humaine, viables à long terme et qui ne grèveraient ni l'infrastructure municipale déjà croulante ni ses capacités financières affaiblies.
  8. Salut la patate. You go where your doctor practices. Dans notre cas, c'était le Royal Vic, qui a un grand centre de naissance.
  9. Lors de l'accouchement de mon fils, en novembre, ils n'avaient pas assez de lits pour les femmes "in labour" au centre des naissances chez l'hôpital Royal Victoria... même pas assez de chaises pour les femmes en attentes pour un lit ! Elles attendaient dans le corridor pour qu'un lit se dégage. Baby boom? You bet!
  10. The problems with the Griffintown project It's too big, includes a concert hall duplicating one planned for downtown, and offers too much commercial space RAPHAEL FISCHLER Freelance Sunday, December 02, 2007 So Mayor Gérald Tremblay is telling us not to be negative about the huge project just proposed for Griffintown. Well, if the project were perfect and the administration's stance beyond reproach, there would be no need for criticism. But as things stand, a couple of critical comments are called for. First, the project is simply too large. This is no way to build cities, megaproject by megaproject. There is no reason, except for developers' hubris, to develop such a huge swath of land in one swoop. This is not a railyard that is lying fallow; it is a working piece of the city. It is in bad shape and definitely needs upgrading. But that process must take place gradually, in medium-sized (or even small) increments that complete the area and complement each other, rather than in a large-scale project that obliterates what exists. Yes, the whole area must be planned as a unit to set a framework for future development. But implementation should not be in the hands of one, single developer and should not proceed too fast. We hear the developer has not yet acquired all the land needed for the project. One hopes he will not succeed in doing so. And one hopes the city of Montreal will not want to use its power of expropriation to help him do so. Second, the project competes directly with other projects that the city has put forward recently. Plans for the Quartier des spectacles, the entertainment district centred around Place des Arts, contain provisions for a new, 2,000-seat hall for the MSO and for a "Cité universitaire" to house international students attending our institutions of higher education. The project for Griffintown contains another 2,000-seat performance hall and the same type of international student housing. Does the city need this duplication? If not, where does it want to locate a new hall and new student housing? If there is room in the city for two new concerts halls and two new student housing projects, should the ones downtown not receive precedence over the others? The project has an important commercial component. A mere 18 per cent of the total floor area is devoted to shops. But that small proportion represents close to a million square feet! That is about the equivalent of 20 football fields. And why is so much space needed? Because the developer of the project, who also is the developer of the "lifestyle centre" Quartier Dix30 on the South Shore, intends in effect to build a small "power centre" with big-box stores right next to downtown. Tremblay wants to reassure us the project will not harm downtown businesses, including those on Ste. Catherine St. The city has consulted an expert, the mayor told us at a press conference, who said Ste. Catherine was losing customers to suburban shopping centres anyway. So why not build one of those within Montreal and capture its fiscal windfall? Right, but is Griffintown really the best place for it? The mayor also wants us to believe, on the basis of the expert's study, that the new development would attract different people than does Ste. Catherine, namely people who go shopping by car, rather than people who walk or use public transit. But if that is the case, why does the developer want a new tramway line to service his development? (He wants it so badly that he is willing to contribute $10 million to the construction of that line. This is bad news for those who believe, as I do, that public-transit money is better spent on improving bus and métro service.) Tremblay wants us to shed negative attitudes toward new development. But the purpose of criticism is to improve projects and, in the long run, improve policy. Of course, constructive comments are better than negative critiques. So here is my advice. Give city planners the mandate to prepare a Plan particulier d'urbanisme for the district that sets guidelines on local development based on what is best for the city, not what is best for one developer. Make one of these rules the prohibition against the consolidation of urban blocks (one of the features of the proposed project). Exclude the possibility the city will expropriate land for a private commercial project. Decide now where a new concert hall and international student housing should be located (and decide that it be downtown). Enter into a binding agreement with the developer that forces him, on penalty of a large fine, to develop a mixed-use project from the start, and not build big-box stores without building housing, too. Disappointed and hurt by the loss of the Casino de Montréal- Cirque du Soleil project near Point St. Charles, Tremblay urges us not to let this project slip by. My guess is Montrealers won't let good projects slip by - but they will fight bad ones. Raphaël Fischler is an associate professor at the School of Urban Planning at McGill University.
  11. Reaction from Kristian Gravenor at Coolopolis: We've been trying to figure out this big announced remaking of Griffintown by a Quebec City company whose website is still under construction. (How are you going to do a $1.3 billion project when you can't even do a $143 website?) The idea is to put some moneymaking stuff down in this historical district and toss in the usual guilt payments to the poor in the form of shitbox aka affordable housing. Of course they'll try to demolish and evict many current tenants quite happily living in the area now in order to accomodate the usual mix of big-promising developers and frothing-at-the-mouth socialist housing entitlement set. Looking at the newly released document leaves many questions unanswered about what gets demolished and what doesn't. There's promises to build a new street, covered walkways, a tramway, a movie theatre, and an alien launching pad for the Raelians (we added that last one in, but it's about as likely as some of the others). Some at Coolopolis Towers suspect that this will end badly, that they'll kick people out and the developers will run out of money as they always do and leave everybody miserable and the place looking like Dresden in 1946, sorta like what happened in the Overdale affair. We'll have a look at the plans again tomorrow to see if we can figure out what is slated to be demolished and what isn't. Much of the development is slated for that area West of where the Church one stood. There's not a whole lot there now. The document also suggests that the Ecole de Technologie Superieur will play a big role in the planning of this stuff. They have a campus on Notre Dame and Peel and are already putting in a dorm at Mountain and Notre Dame. The ETS people have a reputation in the area as standoffish hicks. We trust them about as much as we trust Marty the Peeping Tom.
  12. Lyle

    Gare Viger

    The only reason Montreal doesn't develop as fast is because investors are not spending (as much) money on real estate development here.
  13. Je me pose une question sur cette reportage. Effectivement 60 pieds n'est pas "en hauteur". Cette limite est plutot 6 étages, dirais-je. Donc, est-ce que la journaliste s'est trompé ; de sort que les promoteurs parle de 60 metres ?
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