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I agree with your point about NDG. People do seem to be heading downtown, mostly, and Vendome is without a doubt the main transit hub. Perhaps an interesting solution could be to connect the blue line and the green line, to create a buckle between MoWest and Angrignon, with an extra station in between. It wouldn't necessarily be the most efficient way to get downtown, but as it is, many subways are just a combination of U-shaped loops (I'm definitely thinking of Toronto's, here). Living around the Montreal West terminus, I would definitely take a metro detour over the 105/162 routes during rush hour, which are completely at the mercy of traffic.
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If you have a chance, try and see Gehry's new addition to the Art Gallery of Ontario, near the UofT campus. I'm not usually a fan of his work, but I like what he did there. Also, the markets are worth a look. There's a busker's festival going on at St. Lawrence Market, sort of near the Distillery District.
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I'm actually currently in Toronto too, heading home this evening, and I've gotta say: this city has it going on. For better or for worse, Toronto is doing its thing. It is clear that it stands alone as the premier metropolis, in the national context. Honestly, good for them. They are taking bold steps to create a dynamic city. Sure, the downtown core is empty at 6, but that's not where the action is anyways. They currently have the exhibition grounds open for their end of the summer festival, and that seems to be a big draw. The UofT campus is bustling with the prospect of another school year, and it has some terrific new architecture to compliment it's older buildings (this coming from a McGill student). I took a late-night bike ride along the harbor front, which is nicer than it was just two short years ago, when I was last here. People were enjoying a nice evening, playing baseball and soccer in the fully-lit park... at 11 p.m. People are friendly and courteous, and motorists don't try to intentionally run you over! Of course, Toronto has its share of problems, like many other North American cities, including our own, but I'm enchanted by this city (the parts that I've seen anyways) that seems to be striving forward. It also has a wonderful stock of residential buildings that hopefully won't be turned into condos, just yet. Lastly, I'm seeing the Jays, this afternoon... and although I'm not cheering for them, it will be great to watch a ball game again for the first time since Nos Amours left town. Montreal is great. But Toronto ain't bad, either.
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Could the cluster of projects around the Bell Centre be the rumoured Cadillac-Fairview mega-terminal project? Interestingly enough, the towers on the site of Windsor station appear to be ~25 floors max., when the site is zoned for maximum height. Is there any truth to these particular downtown models, or are they just creative renderings of what the future may or may not hold?
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Selon emporis, les deux tours, le Tour Bell Canada et le Tour de la Banque Nationale, ont chacun 28 étages et mesure 128m en hauteur. http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/cx/?id=100304 Il faudra construire un tour de condos de 40 étages pour atteindre 128m.
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Je ne suis pas certain, mais je pense que le promoteur, M. Ali Khan est déja proprietaire du terrain. Je pense qu'il possede un restaurant dans une des maisons victoriennes.
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autoroute 10 Autoroute 10 (Bonaventure - portion au nord du canal (boul. urbain))
rufus96 a répondu à un sujet de mtlurb dans Infrastructures
Tu peux voir quand-méme les deux autres immeubles qui ont été prévu. La graphique montre deux "tours" dans le centre, ou seront les ilots, et deux autres immeubles juste au sud, dont un qui borde le canal. Peut-étre qu'ils ont laissé de coté un tour, en le remplacent avec de l'éspace vert. -
ville-marie Waldorf Astoria Montréal - 35 étages (2007)
rufus96 a répondu à un sujet de mtlurb dans Projets Annulés
The Waldorf-Astoria Philadelphia project appears dead: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703435104575421742394305602.html Let's hope the same thing won't happen to ours. -
La limite de hauteur de ce terrain est de 120m, si je ne me trompe pas. Je doute fortement que cette immeuble sera plus haute que ça. Je pense que nous nous souvenons tous (incluant M. Panzini) de ce qui s'est passé avec le project du Mackay, alors je dirais 125m au maximum.
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Quebec vows to fight national securities plan
rufus96 a répondu à un sujet de ErickMontreal dans L'actualité
Good news for Montreal, for now: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/no-single-hq-for-national-regulator/article1638442/ Janet McFarland Globe and Mail Update Published on Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2010 1:34PM EDT Last updated on Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2010 1:45PM EDT A new national securities regulator would rely on technologies like videoconferencing to operate only with regional offices and no single headquarters location, according to a detailed organizational plan released Tuesday. A transition office created by the federal government has unveiled its first detailed outline of how a new national securities regulator would operate, and it conspicuously makes no mention of a location for a head office for the new organization. Instead, it recommends creating regional offices in each participating province or territory, and spreading senior staff of the commission among them. The plan does not suggest where the chief executive officer – to be called the chief regulator – should be based. No individuals have been appointed yet to run the new Canadian Securities Regulatory Authority. “Overall, the CSRA’s executive leadership team and the senior management team will need to be highly mobile and will rely on support from the CSRA’s technology infrastructure (such as videoconferencing and intranet) to fulfill the organization’s national mandate,” the proposal recommends. The scattered organizational structure is aimed at defusing a major political battle building among various provinces over the location of the head office for the CSRA. Ontario has insisted the head office should be located in Toronto where most of the country’s largest securities firms are based, while other provinces have insisted they will not join a new national regulator if it is dominated by Ontario. The proposal is not the final word on a structure for the new organization, but only a recommendation from a team set up to develop a transition plan for the creation of the new body. The transition team, led by former British Columbia Securities Commission chairman Douglas Hyndman, has proposed a two-year timeline for creation of the new organization, with a target launch date of July 1, 2012. Provinces and territories would be asked to decide by September whether they want to continue working on the creation of the new organization by signing “development agreements,” but would not have to commit to joining the CSRA until next July. Mr. Hyndman said Tuesday a “distributed” structure with offices across the country will ensure market participants have direct access to regulators, while CSRA staff will remain familiar with issues in all jurisdictions. “We’re not trying to design an organization that will fit somebody’s preconceived model of what it should look like, but to design an organization that will fit the market it’s going to regulate,” he said. “Investors are spread across the whole country. They need regulation where they are.” Transition office executive vice-president Larry Ritchie, who is also a vice-chairman of the Ontario Securities Commission, said many professional firms, like accounting and legal firms, have a variety of regional offices with distributed decision-making, but still have “a place where the buck stops” with a CEO. “This is not a situation where you have a patchwork or a diffused, unaccountable series of decision-makers,” he said. “You have a team of executives who happen to be distributed across the country but collectively are accountable through the chief regulator.” The CSRA is expected to proceed with those provinces willing to join, while others could choose to participate in the future. In the meantime, the CSRA would create rules to ensure it can co-operate with non-participating provinces. The plan proposes selecting a board of directors for the new agency by October, 2011, with a chief regulator appointed by the end of next year. The executive leadership team would be in place by April 1, 2012, and final staff hiring would follow prior to the July, 2012, launch, the plan suggests. The new body, which would be created as a federal Crown corporation, would be overseen by a Council of Ministers, including the federal finance minister and a minister from each participating province or territory. It would be more directly run by a regionally diverse board of directors. The proposal recommends creating two autonomous organizations: a regulatory division headed by a chief regulator and assisted by deputy chief regulators assigned to different geographic regions; and a Canadian Securities Tribunal, which would be headed by a chief adjudicator and would be responsible for conducting hearings into securities cases. Currently, most of Canada’s securities commissions combine both regulatory and adjudicative functions, but have faced complaints about the appearance of conflicts of interest when the same organization investigates infractions and prosecutes offenders. A new investor advisory panel would also be created to ensure shareholder input for the CSRA. It is unknown yet whether a compromise to have no head office will be sufficient to win provincial support for the new plan. An Ontario government official said Monday the government is confident it can still convince federal finance minister Jim Flaherty to change his mind and set up the office in Toronto. In comments earlier this year, Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan called talk of creating a virtual head office “just laughable.” Quebec and Alberta have been strongly opposing the plan and have launched court challenges of the proposal. 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I don't really think conference matters too much when it comes to relocation. It's just a business, and as such, the NHL wants to find the most viable market. They can always take a team from the East and stick it in the West, as unlikely as it could seem, geographically. I remember that up until 1998, Toronto was a Western Conference team, although I don't see that ever happening again.
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The last part of TSN's "Why Not Canada" series touches on Quebec City. There are two lengthy videos of Michel Aubut and Régis Lebeaume discussing the possible return of a team, as well as the following article: http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=327048
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I was on the roof of Mcgill's 15 floor Burnside Hall building when it happened. I have to say that it was pretty epic.
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I would love to see Tour de la Bourse with a great big corporate logo on it. Otherwise, it's kind of sad to see RBC move out of their St. Jacques building. The interior is gorgeous. Anytime I'm around the old port, I always make a point of making a transaction there, just for fun.
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ville-marie Waldorf Astoria Montréal - 35 étages (2007)
rufus96 a répondu à un sujet de mtlurb dans Projets Annulés
I think it has a reasonable chance of going up, at some point. Remember, Altitude was originally announced in 2008, and there was a brief period of time where we thought it was a pipe dream. -
Redéveloppement des terrains du Cavendish Mall
rufus96 a répondu à un sujet de MTLskyline dans Complétés
This is nothing short of long overdue. That mall is the epitome of dead, especially the part that is slated for redevelopment. -
Personally, I would modify his proposed category: "The Future That Was Promised but Never Came, with the Help of Dinu Bumbaru and his Pals."
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Données et actualités démographiques - Montréal / Montréal métropolitain
rufus96 a répondu à un sujet de mtlurb dans L'actualité
Statistics Canada's High Growth Scenario Population Projections for 2031: Toronto: 9.75 million Montreal: 5.3 million Vancouver: 3.75 million Calgary: 2 million ... and so on. Not bad, quite frankly, for a high growth scenario. We preserve our 1.5 million cushion on Vancouver. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-551-x/2010001/tbl/tbl028-eng.htm -
I heard the plan was to build two, one hotel (40 floors) and one office (~60 floors). The interesting thing is that it calls for the demolition of an iconic hotel (The Grand Hotel, if I'm not mistaken).
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Out of curiosity, what is the current situation with Los Angeles suburbs (or even Century City etc., for that matter)? Are they adding office space and growing faster, to the detriment of Downtown Los Angeles, and its immediate surroundings?
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Données et actualités démographiques - Montréal / Montréal métropolitain
rufus96 a répondu à un sujet de mtlurb dans L'actualité
What I find a bit odd is that in previous estimates, StatCan has reported that Montreal's growth is around 30,000 people per year (i.e 2007-2008). It seems to have been revised to 43,000, but isn't that quite a large margin of error? Regardless, 49,600 people is a big gain. Let's see if we can make it 55,000 next year. -
Données et actualités démographiques - Montréal / Montréal métropolitain
rufus96 a répondu à un sujet de mtlurb dans L'actualité
http://www.stat.gouv.qc.ca/donstat/societe/demographie/dons_regnl/regional/ra_total.htm What was all of this talk of the Island of Montreal losing population, then? Even the revised numbers show a moderate year-by-year gain. Even the city proper gained population, and now stands at 1,667,000, up from 1,620,000 in 2006, if I'm not mistaken. All in all this is decent news. Add St. Jean-sur-Richelieu to the CMA, and we're almost at 4 million! -
Ce que je veux savoir est s'il y aura besoin d'une maudite consultation pour ce terrain. Est-ce que quelqu'un sait la limite de hauteur pour ce terrain?
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I love the Tour Bonaventura, and its sheer, unforgiving height. It would have had 80 floors, compared to FCPs 72, if I'm not mistaken. FCP is 296m (355 with antenna), so i'm guessing this would have been in the 300-320m range, to be the tallest in Canada. Le 1000 is a nice consolation prize, at least.
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Je pense que c'est 115-120m, parce que la limite de hauteur pour le terrain est de 120m, et il n'y avait aucun consultation, pour permettre la construction, ce qui suggère que la hauteur de l'immeuble ne passait pas la limite.
