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  1. mont royal
    Good decision. Taking down the sales office is a good start, but until they start taking away earth, there`s no construction happening.
  2. mont royal
    Wow! We just added one more sensitive person.
  3. mont royal
    It looks like 17 stories.
  4. mont royal
    That is an inspiring vision that you present. I agree entirely. Location, location, location. This is a unique opportunity to define the city for the next several decades.
  5. mont royal
    What`s the point? Its always to make money,, and they are smart money.
  6. mont royal
    Rocco, I get the exactly different impression; its the possibility of disappointment that really thrills you.
  7. mont royal
    That's an old picture! Look at Jean Chretien there in the foreground. He must have been about 20 years old when this was taken.
  8. mont royal
    I don't think that this is about creating a new Chinese suburb. It seems to more part of a long-term strategy for developing trade markets for China. Why Montreal and not Las Vegas?. One quick reason comes to mind. As others have said, China always take a long-term view; always. When the Chinese set up their Chinatowns (not the case here) , where did they go? They went where no one else would go, Lower St Laurent in Mtl; lower Spadina in Toronto, the edge of the Combat Zone in Boston. They buy cheap and then develop. By North American or even global standards, Montreal is still a bargain. And I for one believe that the medium to long-term future of Montreal is very bright. Las Vegas? The city of instant gratification. 50 years from now, I expect it will be a ghost town, rusting in the growing desert. It is fundamentally unsustainable, using dwindling reserves of water that cannot be replaced.
  9. mont royal
    Why Brossard? This new group is mainland Chinese. The Brossard group is largely Cantonese- speaking who came from Hong Kong in order to avoid Chinese rule. This is a whole new ball game. It is a very interesting initiative and very different from anything here before. The Chinese have done something like this on a much more smaller scale in Zimbabwe (and perhaps elsewhere). It will be fun to see how it works out.
  10. mont royal
    I guess that this is no longer a Proposal. Its now under destruction, if not construction.
  11. mont royal
    Canvar doesn`t fool around. They speak softly and act quickly.
  12. mont royal
    I was just reading a quote from a native elder. His philosophy behind any communal decision is to think ahead 7 generations. That, in turn, reminds me of when Mao was asked what he thought of the French Revolution and he replied. `Its too soon to tell.` Both very wise views, to my way of thinking. Some cultures live within a much more realistic perspective on the passage of time than we do, in our energetic efforts to go nowhere, fast.
  13. mont royal
    Short term gain leads to long-term pain. But who cares about the city and those who follow, as long as their own pockets are stuffed.
  14. mont royal
    Not a big loss.
  15. mont royal
    In my view, they are all similar in that they are primarily designed to accommodate the automobile. A high rise, on its own, does not contribute to density, in the sense of neighbourhood. Many are actually silos, cut off and isolated from their immediate surroundings. The quality of life that I enjoy in the inner city and which I do not believe I can find in most surrounding areas is based upon a combination of density of pedestrians (this gives a sense of security), ready commercial access to family-owned enterprises (they too are of the neighbourhood and are not parachuted in by some external corporation), ethnic and economic diversity (uniformity, either of economic class or ethnicity leads to insularity, intolerance and social unrest). The pro Ron Ford gang live in the suburbs (no coincidence ) and the same is true of the 450 crowd. They retreat from the unfamiliar and want to cocoon with their `own`. These neighbourhoods you refer to encourage isolation, uniformity and insularity..and it all starts with their design.
  16. mont royal
    I would be surprised if he washes windows from his desk.
  17. mont royal
    Too many suits to be Montreal.
  18. mont royal
    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/12/us/blighted-cities-prefer-razing-to-rebuilding.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131112&_r=0 Absolutely fascinating article in the New York Times abut the demolition of inner city areas throughout the States. The figures for population exodus are staggering. It reminds me of Drapeau`s slum clearance programme here. . What is it now? 50 years later? And we still have great swaths of abandoned land along Rene Levesque ouest. Our urban challenges seem fairly minor compared to some.
  19. mont royal
    The following is from the Toronto Star a couple of months ago. Not a pretty picture! A local investor has decided to try to sell off his $1-million-plus hotel-condo suite in Toronto’s Trump hotel like a piece of fine jewelry or aging farm equipment — by auction. After watching listings for about a dozen similar units in the beleaguered luxury project languish on the MLS for more than a year without a single taker, the owner of the 12th-floor suite — himself a veteran realtor — has turned to Ritchies Auctioneers. Kashif Khan, managing director of Toronto-based Ritchies, acknowledges that selling the hotel-condo unit will be a challenge but he’s optimistic. The Star has reported in recent months of the investor revolt at the building, that has seen only 50 buyers of 261 hotel-condo units actually take possession well over a year after the landmark project opened. Owners of 25 units in the 65-storey hotel-condo project at Bay and Adelaide Sts. have launched a lawsuit for more than $40 million against developer Talon International, alleging they were victims of “an investment scheme and conspiracy.” Many have found themselves unable to get mortgages on units that lenders consider commercial rather than residential real estate. Or they have been crippled by maintenance fees and commercial property taxes averaging thousands of dollars per month.
  20. mont royal
    The Toronto Trump Tower seems to be a total flop. And there weren`t even marketing for locals; they were looking for offshore investors.
  21. mont royal
    The Trump tower has had very few sales. Some who bought and are now trying to get out have had their units on sale for over a year.
  22. mont royal
    When Calgary first started bragging about the fact that they had more head offices than Montreal, I did the counting. Calgary wasn`t even close to Montreal. What they did was to not count head offices in places like Laval or St Laurent. About 9 out of 10 of their head offices are related to the oil industry. Why Calgary feels obligated to actually cheat in order to make this claim says a lot about their manabe attitude.
  23. mont royal
    No, he is definitely not bang on. He chooses his facts very carefully in order to emphasize the negative.
  24. mont royal
    Well said Pedepy, Vancouver or TO may look great from about a mile off shore, but up close the buildings are boringly unifom and the street life is barren. Every major high-rise in Montreal should be an event. Each major building should be aestetically pleasing, original and should contribute to a pleasant life at street level. That is of course, ideal; but we have every right and responsibility as residents to insist on high standards. Much of the beauty we do have here is due to the fact that we never experienced boom boom times when developers could rush in and throw up cookie-cutter buildings.
  25. mont royal
    Not surprisingly, the author of the Wall street Journal is from Ontario and writes out of Toronto. As soon as I saw his reference to Montreal as having a population of 1.6 million, I knew that he wasn`t from the USA and wasn`t objective. There is no way that a Toronto-based writer would describe Toronto as having a population of close to 2 million. It is always the GTA figures they use and sometimes they even go beyond and include the Golden Horseshoe as greater Toronto. Conversely, as he did in this article, they will totally downplay Montreal and avoid mentioning that greater Montreal is now close to 4million. No references to any of the new buildings other than those funded by the Ontario Teachers Plan.
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