Dans le magazine Champions ils ont un article qui parle dès 30 dernieres années de construction à Montréal. 

Avec Manuvie en 2017 et Humaniti et BN déjà en cours, nous avons une chance de battre le debut des années 90 en 2017-2026

It's pretty crazy that they could have built across the street from their current head office and been connected to the metro by building/buying the lot owned by Westcliff which is also zoned 120m+ on a site where the foundation is already poured. Yet they are able to sign a deal with Broccolini who purchased the lot within four months from a developer Magil-Laurentienne that wanted to put a 32+ storey office tower in that location for the last decade. 

Definitely speaks to the competence of more "established" Montreal based developers and leasing agents. 

1 hour ago, ThinkBig said:

C'est moi ou à 680 unités sur 45 étages ça commence à être pas mal serré? Je me demande bien le prix moyen des unités rendu à cette taille là...

They will be on average 515-650 sqft.

The page of Jean Desjardins specifies 45 stories - 680 units. Architect : Eric Huot

3 hours ago, Habsfan said:

Major SCOOP!!!!

I've heard from a fairly reliable source that a major Montreal corporation wishes to move its HQ to this site. They are looking for approximately 20 to 25 floors of office space (approx. 400,000 to 500,000 sq. feet). Also, there will be a 175 to 200 meter condo tower built on the same site.

I tried finding out who this corporation was, but was unable to find out! I guess we'll just have to be patient!

My feeling (and this is just speculation on my part) is that if they can have one company taking 20 to 25 floors before they even start construction, this could easily justify the construction of a 45 to 50 story Office tower.

There are not a lot of candidates that have that much real-estate that would want to move

Very unlikely : Bell, Desjardins, National Bank, SNC, Power, Bombardier, Air Canada, Couche-Tard, Metro, Hydro-Quebec, Quebecor, Industriel-Alliance,

Maybe: CN, WSP, CGI, Intact

any more?

nice!

Ils sont pas la

No idea where I would have kept these pictures. 

Dû aux nouveaux règlements de zonage, Terra sera le dernier édifice de plus de 15 étages à être contruit à Laval.

Ouin

https://www.jobboom.com/fr/description-de-poste/construction-production-manutention/surintendant-de-chantier/region-de-montreal/devmont/2468877

Surintendant de chantier

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/park-extension-residents-rally-against-luxury-apartment-project-1.3756332

Park Extension residents rally against luxury apartment project

Residents and community groups gathered in Park Extension on Thursday evening to protest a planned luxury apartment project that they said will contribute to gentrification in the neighbourhood.

“The people in Park Ex deserve a lot better than not having their voice heard,” said organizer Joshua Singh.

Roughly 20 people came to the rally in front of the borough hall during a meeting of the urban planning committee to voice their displeasure with the project, which would be located across from the Parc Metro station. The development has not yet been approved by borough council.

The land was purchased by developer BSR Group last year and since then, many of the merchants who were tenants in the building already located there have left.

“Park Ex is an immigrant district, working class people and we want to keep our people living in Park Ex and not become a new Plateau-Mont-Royal,” said Andre Trepanier of the Park Extension Action Committee.

According to a 2013 Centraide study, Park Ex is among the poorest neighbourhoods in Canada but the community advocates said changes are coming. They pointed to the Universite de Montreal’s new Outremont campus, which is set to open next year, as an example.

“We feel we’ve been abandoned by the City of Montreal in the past,” said Trepanier. “We have a lack of social housing in the district, close to 900 families on the waiting list for low-income apartments.”

BSR Group manager Ron Basal said the project will benefit the neighbourhood.

“When we took possession of the building, we found druggies, junkies, syringes in the hallways, people were sleeping in the building,” he said. “I’m adding a big value to the city.”

Singh said any benefits will be felt by just the developer and not residents.

“It’s just greed and for years we’ve been fighting against any kind of huge developments,” he said. 

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/condo-developments-in-montreals-lachine-canal-drawpushback/article37557004/

Development plans dredge up thorny issues

The Lachine Canal, once full of warehouses and silos, is now one of Montreal's busiest sites for residential construction. Not everyone is happy

At the turn of the 20 th century, Montreal's Lachine Canal was a North American industrial powerhouse with sprawling factories packed shoulder-to-shoulder along the narrow waterway.

By the 1970s, the flour and textile mills, breweries, iron works and other manufacturers were moving away or shutting down as activity shifted elsewhere and the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway diverted shipping away from the canal.

Left behind was a unique urban footprint: a postindustrial landscape of derelict warehouses, abandoned malt silos and empty red-brick hydraulic works. In the 1990s, the area – southwest of downtown Montreal – was being reclaimed as a recreational and tourist destination.

The canal was cleaned up, Parks Canada had taken over and built a popular network of bicycle paths and the sector was declared a historic site. Aging 19 th-century industrial buildings began to be transformed into trendy loft and office spaces.Today, the Lachine Canal is in the throes of another transformation. The district has been turned into a condo developer's paradise, with dozens of mid-priced to luxury buildings going up along the landscaped banks and on nearby streets.

With its proximity to the downtown, scenic tree-lined paths and easy access to public transit as well as such amenities as the nearby Atwater Market and a burgeoning number of local trendy watering holes and eateries, the location is one of the city's busiest sites for residential – mostly condo – construction.

Clearly, the revitalization and redevelopment have been a boon for what was an economically depressed sector that witnessed an exodus of the mostly working-class residents once employed by the thousands in the factories. There is a return influx of people and city governments are more than pleased at the expansion of their residential tax base.

But there has also been pushback by local residents who feel the condo development has gone overboard, with too little social or affordable new housing and not enough emphasis on building new schools, parks, grocery stores and social services.

The canal district is a living laboratory in the dynamics of urban planning amidst runaway private residential development. The stunning victory of the left-of-centreProjet Montréal municipal party in the citywide November mayoral contest raises the stakes for developers: the new mayor, Valérie Plante, is committed to building more social and family-oriented housing in the city and putting the brakes on construction of the typical one- or two-bedroom condos primarily targeting the professional class.

Condo developers in the canal district say they are open to the idea of a new urban game plan more receptive to the needs of the community.

"Montreal's southwest is sort of ground zero for a lot of debates on gentrification and deindustrialization," Concordia University history professor Steven High said. Condo construction has "been proceeding at a tremendously rapid pace without a lot of thinking."

"There are a lot of pluses about densification, but a lot of questions about what kind of place is being created there."

Denis Robitaille, president and founder of developer Conceptions Rachel-Julien, is putting up Phase 4 of the company's Bassins du Havre condo project in Griffintownon land formerly occupied by a Canada Post sorting facility; the project is in partnership with real estate developer Le Groupe Prével. "We're quite comfortable providing affordable housing," Mr. Robitaille said. "We don't have any concerns over that."

Of the 550 units in the 20-storey Bassins du Havre tower, 15 per cent will be in the affordable housing category – in the $280,000 range – Mr. Robitaille said.

The Bassins du Havre project incorporates water into its design, featuring terraces made to look like docks.

RACHEL JULIEN

Some of the project's features are meant to tap into the themes of water and the canal's rich industrial history: There are private terraces made to look like docks, as well as rooftop pools and spa services.

The old Canada Post site is also the location for a publicly funded social-housing project. A municipal agency in the Sud-Ouest borough has a partnership agreement with non-profit organization Bâtir son quartier for the development of 235 rental and 78 condo units, slated for delivery in 2019. Condo availability is limited to first-time home buyers or families, spokeswoman Leslie Molko said.

The project will include shops on the ground-floor level.

In the nearby Saint-Henri neighbourhood, the abandoned, graffiti-covered Canada Malting Silos facility – whose first phase was built in 1905 – is the focus of an ambitious mixed-use and restoration project by Renwick Development. Besides family-oriented residences, there are plans for commercial space, a section for artists' studios and exhibition quarters, public green spaces with access to the canal, an early childhood and autistic rehabilitation centre and an observation tower. The property – containing 240 to 260 residences – will make room for 65 to 80 social-housing units, Renwick founder and president Noam Schnitzer said. "Development in the southwest needs to be community oriented. This, for us, is Canada Malting.

"We want to bring the site back into the community in a very meaningful and sustainable manner." 

A concept rendering of the Canada Malting redevelopment.

KARL FISCHER ARCHITECT

Shannon Franssen, a spokeswoman for À nous la Malting, a community group opposed to the Canada Malting redevelopment as envisaged by Renwick, says the project doesn't sufficiently address the neighbourhood's serious affordable- and social-housing needs. "It's one of the last sites that's available for social housing along the Lachine Canal," she said. "Many low-income residents are being forced to move out because of gentrification" and Renwick's proposal is essentially a luxecondo project with a bit of window dressing to address community and social housing needs, she said.

The group wants municipal authorities to acquire the land and come up with plans for a public only project with a much higher ratio of social and affordable residences.

"I understand their position. I understand where they're coming from," Mr. Schnitzer said. "But this is a project that addresses the needs of the community."

Montreal and New York City architect Karl Fischer says his firm has prepared "a comprehensive design package for the revitalizing of Canada Malting and including social housing." The proposal has been submitted to the city for review, he said. Mr. Schnitzer anticipates the approvals process to resume in January with groundbreaking tentatively scheduled for October, 2018.

Whatever shape the former malt works ends up taking, it's clear – especially with the arrival of Projet Montréal at the helm of city government – that the entire canal district will be subject to much closer, more rigorous scrutiny of any new residential real estate development in the sector.

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Face à la Rivière-des-Prairies et à quelques pas de la station de métro Cartier, ce nouveau complexe résidentiel se situe dans un quartier en pleine effervescence au niveau du développement commercial et immobilier. Avec ses matériaux nobles et sa présence prédominante sur le boulevard des Laurentides, l’édifice a été conçu selon une vision moderne de la vie urbaine, tant par la qualité de l’environnement proposé que par le souci d’offrir plusieurs commodités aux occupants. Ainsi, en complément aux 193 logements de types variés répartis sur 10 étages, le deuxième niveau de l’édifice est partagé entre une piscine intérieure et un gymnase à l’usage des occupants. De plus, les deux niveaux de toiture verte offrent une vue imprenable sur les environs et les jardins communautaires permettent aux occupants de s’approprier un espace vert en pleine ville. Le ton moderne et chaleureux du projet s’exprime dès l’entrée dans l’édifice, par un lobby fenestré sur toute sa hauteur et surplombé d’une mezzanine où les occupants peuvent se détendre et recevoir des visiteurs. L’accès aux logements s’effectue au moyen d’un débarcadère donnant sur la rue du Pont-Viau, ou encore par un stationnement intérieur donnant sur la rue d’Orly. L’édifice abrite également des espaces commerciaux tels que restaurants, pharmacies et autres, dans la portion du rez-de-chaussée donnant sur le boulevard des Laurentides ainsi que des espaces de bureaux et un centre sportif au deuxième étage. Facilement accessible depuis le centre-ville de Montréal, ce nouveau complexe résidentiel bénéficie d’une visibilité exceptionnelle dans un secteur en plein essor, afin d’offrir aux résidents et aux clients un environnement qui répondra à leurs besoins.

http://clarchitectes.ca/projet/edifice-a-usage-mixte-boulevard-des-laurentides-concept/

13 minutes ago, bxlmontreal said:

Qui possède ce terrain de l'ex projet Waldorf en fait?

Elles appartient toujours a Monit.

Not sure about having 5 floors of stilts either.

https://renx.ca/estwest-condos-montreal-square-childrens-development/

East meeting west is proving a winning formula for Devimco Immobilier’s condominium project in its Square Children’s mixed-use development.

Devimco’s EstWest condo towers are part of the Square Children’s development in Montreal. (Rendering courtesy Devimco)

The developer says it has sold more than 95 per cent of the 307 condos in EstWest‘s Est tower on the site of the former Montreal Children’s Hospital in downtown Montreal. As a result, it will move up sales of the second phase, the 320-unit West tower.

There has been a huge public appetite for the condo project, says Marco Fontaine, director of sales and marketing at Devimco.

Before the project’s official launch, “we created a website and many people registered to buy a condo or rent an apartment. In the first weeks after launching the project, we collected more than 2,000 names.” By the time the project launched, another 2,000 or so names had been collected.

“We had a lineup and people who slept outside before the launch.”

The $400-million Square Children’s site will eventually include about 1,400 residential units, including rentals and social housing. Devimco is partnering with the Fonds de solidarité FTQ – the investment fund of the FTQ trade union – and private investment firm Fiera Capital Corporation to complete the project.

Located in Shaughnessy Village

The Shaughnessy Village neighbourhood site is situated at Atwater Avenue and René-Lévesque Boulevard, near the Atwater Metro, Alexis Nihon Plaza shopping mall and the old Montreal Forum.

It became available for construction when the Montreal Children’s Hospital moved westward a few years ago to the new Glen site of the McGill University Health Centre, which also includes the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal Chest Instituteand Shriners Hospital for Children.

In June, after conducting public hearings on the project, the City of Montreal gave its go-ahead despite criticisms proposed towers were too tall and there were not enough units devoted to families. However, the city predicted many families would be willing to accept small two- to three-bedroom residences of 700 to 1,000 square feet for the convenience of living downtown.

The Children’s Hospital, which had been at the site for more than a century, is being demolished. Only a nurses’ residence built in 1919 is being restored and integrated into the project.

Demolition should wrap up at the end of March and construction of the Est condominium tower should begin by the beginning of 2019. Delivery is slated for spring 2020.

Sales for the West tower will launch in early 2018 “and again we have lots of interest.”

Between Westmount, downtown Montreal

The two, 25-storey condominiums were dubbed EstWest, because they link nearby Westmount and downtown Montreal to the east. Design of the Est tower, located to the east, represents the Orient, New York and downtown Montreal, Fontaine says, while the West tower is inspired by Westmount and California to the west.

The project has attracted buyers mainly living within a one-kilometre radius. “Westmount clients responded very well,” particularly empty nesters who want to sell their homes and live in a condo environment,” Fontaine says.

Fontaine says there is a linguistic mix of about 55-45 per cent anglophones and francophones, many young professionals and Asians. (Nearby Ste. Catherine Street between Atwater Avenue and Guy Street has become a mini-Chinatown.)

The project is not allowing Airbnb; it forbids daily rentals and requires minimum rentals of 30 days.

Amenities include work lobby

The two condo towers will be connected by a two-storey base area known as a “basilaire” that will contain an 11,000-square-foot training centre, indoor pool and games room. A Sky Lounge on the top floor of one of the towers will provide views of the city and Mount Royal. There will be a work lobby with USB outlets where self-employed residents can work.

Prices for the West tower will be slightly higher than for the Est, given the time difference in construction and rate of inflation. Units will range in size from 270 to 1,833 square feet. Studios start at $200,000 taxes included, while units with two bedrooms sell for around $450,000.

Two rental apartment towers will be built behind the EstWest condos, although the size of those buildings has not been finalized.

Aside from the condos, rental apartments and social housing, the project will include a community centre and enlargement of an existing park called Henri-Dunant Park. It could eventually include a school, an office building or hotel but these parts of the development have not been finalized.

Fontaine says the project will require seven or eight years to complete and will include social housing units managed by the city’s municipal housing office.

http://vuborddeleau.com/index.html#condos

Un projet innovateur de condos locatifs sur le bord de la Rivière-des-Prairies. Optez pour la location et vivez la tranquillité d'esprit, sans tracas, sans entretien et sans frais de condo.

Sekure Merchant Solutions has moved into Place Ville Marie (PVM 2-3 - 34k sqft). I think that the entire block vacated by Deloitte has now been leased. 

1 minute ago, Ousb said:

Dans vos interventions concernant un lien Montreal-Toronto vous semblez oublier que c’est le Gouvernement du QUEBEC qui est derriere la proposition. Ce serait se tirer une balle de le pied de ne pas proposer quelque chose pour l’ensemble de la province... Montreal-Toronto c’est viable economiquement mais pas poltiquement en tout cas

Le TGF serait de Quebec a Windsor

Sales brisk, Broccolini set to build luxury Montreal condos

Danny Kucharsky | Property Biz Canada | 2017-11-21

Now that it is more than 80 per cent sold, Broccolini is slated to begin construction next year on its $150-million 628 St. Jacques luxury condo project across from Victoria Square in Old Montreal.

Montreal’s Broccolini worked for several years to compile the parcels of land it required to build its 628 St. Jacques condos. (Rendering courtesy Broccolini)

Most of the 258 units in the 35-storey condo sold within a few weeks after the project opened to the public last month.

The building, located on the last parcel of redevelopment land available in the vicinity of Victoria Square, is scheduled to be completed in 2021.

Prices start at about $330,000 plus taxes for a 470-square-foot unit and go as high as $4.8 million for a 4,000-square-foot penthouse.

Jean Langlois, director of communications and marketing at Broccolini, is not surprised it is selling so quickly.

“This is the epitome of location, location, location. It’s a beautiful spot.”

“Premium” site straddles downtown, Old Montreal

Langlois says the Victoria Square location “is a premium one – you’re both downtown and in Old Montreal at the same time. It’s kind of unique in Montreal as far as locations go. Everything’s there. It’s very lively during work hours, but on the weekend it’s so quiet. It really has it all.”

He says the location across from the Tour de la Bourse (Stock Exchange Tower) called for something a bit more upscale so that “people who have it all can have it all.

Sales were boosted with a marketing campaign with slogans like “Being able to walk to work . . . Now that’s luxury.”

The tower will be art deco-inspired and will have a New York City feel, Langlois says. However, the ultimate goal is to have a new building that blends in well and looks like it could have been around for a long time, given the area’s eclectic mix of old and new.

“There’s been some criticism that it’s not modern enough but I think it really sits well in its location. I think we managed to have the right balance.”

“Really broad” mix of buyers

The building will have a rooftop pool – which is being dubbed the tallest in the city – and sauna, as well as an amenities level with lounge, gym and green terrace. Units will have nine- to 13-foot high ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows. There will be a maximum of 10 units per floor and most units will have balconies. The building will have 112 parking spots.

Buyers to date have been mostly Montrealers, aged 25 to 75. “The mix is really broad, including people who work in the area, investors and lots of owner-occupants,” Langlois says.

Broccolini has been assembling the land that makes up the project for years. Last May, the developer announced it had acquired the last parcel at 630 St. Jacques St.

The facade of a building that dates back to 1905 at the corner of St. Jacques and Gauvin Streets is being preserved and integrated into the building, while the former Toronto-Dominion Bank insurance building is being demolished.

Long quest to assemble properties

Part of the land had been slated for the Victoire condo project, which was proposed several years ago, but failed to get off the ground. That project was supposed to have about 20 storeys with only two penthouse-like units on each floor.

“They offered tons of customization options, which is nice in theory but in reality very hard to do,” Langlois says. “We were finally able to buy the land from one of the creditors. It wasn’t simple to assemble all of those parcels to do a project that was more viable financially.”

The 628 St. Jacques name for the condo “is part of that New York feel,” Langlois says. “There’s a lot of New York projects that have their address as the name of the project. We kind of went for that.”

Broccolini owns 614 to 634 St. Jacques St. “so we kind of had our pick” for the address. “628 (St. Jacques) is a bit softer, a bit more poetic” than, say, 630.

Broccolini, a 70-year-old family firm, has developed and built more than four million square feet of office space in the past 10 years.

Among its other projects in Montreal, Broccolini recently completed the 50-storey L’Avenue, which has become the city’s tallest mixed-use building, and is building a new headquarters for Radio-Canada/CBC (see Broccolini begins building new Montreal CBC HQ).

https://renx.ca/628-st-jacques-condoes-montreal-broccolini/

Dans le Vieux-Montreal sur Queen

http://www.newswire.ca/fr/news-releases/sid-lee-choisit-place-ville-marie-657985953.html

Sid Lee choisit Place Ville Marie

MONTRÉAL, le 16 nov. 2017 /CNW Telbec/ -  Ivanhoé Cambridge et Sid Lee sont très heureux d'annoncer une entente à long terme pour le déménagement de Sid Lee au 1, Place Ville Marie, à Montréal. Dès le début 2019, les 350 employés de Sid Lee occuperont des espaces spécialement transformés sur un campus d'une superficie totale d'environ 5666 m² (61 000 pi²).

Conçu et imaginé par Sid Lee Architecture en collaboration avec Ivanhoé Cambridge, le campus de Sid Lee comprendra des espaces de bureaux soigneusement réaménagés pour répondre aux besoins uniques des équipes créatives multidisciplinaires de la firme. En plus des bureaux hautement collaboratifs et très flexibles, les employés disposeront d'un tout nouvel espace multifonctionnel et d'un bistrot unique.

Les espaces seront répartis dans les halls bancaires situés au rez-de-chaussée et aux niveaux mezzanines qui surplombent l'Esplanade de Place Ville Marie.  

« Nous sommes très heureux de l'arrivée de Sid Lee, qui marque un point tournant pour Place Ville Marie, a déclaré Bernard Poliquin, vice-président principal, Bureaux, Québec, chez Ivanhoé Cambridge. Place Ville Marie est au cœur de la transformation du centre-ville. Nous sommes pleinement engagés dans notre Projet Nouveau-Centre, c'est-à-dire le plan d'Ivanhoé Cambridge d'investir 1 milliard de dollars au centre-ville d'ici 2020. » 

« En déménageant à Place Ville Marie, nous souhaitons concevoir le meilleur territoire de collaboration au monde, a déclaré Martin Gauthier, président de Sid Lee Montréal et chef global des opérations de Sid Lee. En plus de jouer un rôle dans l'avenir de Place Ville Marie, nos employés seront plus que jamais connectés sur le centre-ville et ses réseaux de transports urbains, et à proximité de tous les services et événements. »

1 minute ago, UrbMtl said:

Oui, et comme je l'ai mentionné, le projet aurait pu lever suite à la Révision parce que les hauteurs permises ont été rehaussée sur les rues transversales. Le promoteur n'a pas donné suite.

Tellement de temps avait écoulé qu'il a acheté une montagne a place.