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Sur RL, ils avaient le droit à120m, seulement parce-que le projet voulais conserver les maisons greystone qu'ils on demander une dérogation pour elargir la zone de 120m de quelque mètres au nord.

Maison Manuvie accueille Boralex http://ivanhoecambridge.com/fr-ca/medias/nouvelles/2017/10/maison-manuvie-boralex 24 octobre 2017 Ivanhoé Cambridge et Manuvie, copropriétaires de Maison Manuvie, sont heureux d’accueillir le nouveau bureau montréalais de Boralex à Maison Manuvie, au 900 de Maisonneuve Ouest, à Montréal. Dès 2018, Boralex occupera les espaces du 24e étage de l’immeuble, soit environ 2 350 m2 (25 000 pi2). « Nous souhaitons la plus cordiale des bienvenues aux équipes de Boralex, une société québécoise de renom en pleine croissance, » a déclaré Bernard Poliquin, vice-président principal, Bureaux, Québec, chez Ivanhoé Cambridge. « Nous sommes très fiers d’accueillir ces jours-ci nos premiers occupants dans l’immeuble qui établit un nouveau standard dans le marché montréalais, offrant à la fois qualité, accessibilité, connectivité et durabilité. » Vouée au développement, la construction et l’exploitation de sites de production d’énergie renouvelable, Boralex se spécialise dans quatre types de production d’énergie - éolienne, hydroélectrique, solaire et thermique -, et maintient une croissance soutenue en Amérique du Nord et en Europe grâce à son expertise et sa stratégie de diversification développées depuis plus de vingt-cinq ans. Conçue en vue d'obtenir la certification LEED® Or NE (noyau et enveloppe), Maison Manuvie offre un environnement de travail d'une grande flexibilité d'aménagement, d'une luminosité maximale, et l'opportunité d'aménagements ouverts et collaboratifs.

Risk management at Westcliff is obviously at a much higher level than any other company. It might be related to the fact that it is a family business and their ability to raise capital is limited, or that they simply have a deficient management. It is frankly astonishing that two Vistal towers and 4 Evolo towers and the entire Zuni project will be completed before Symphonia 2 even starts construction. The same goes for their office development, its astonishing that a tower whose footing is complete gets vaulted by projects starting from scratch like Aimia, Deloitte and Manulife.

The units are crazy small though. There are the same number of units in theOne in Toronto and that project is 30 stories higher.

Quand on se fie au Journal de Montréal et TVA comme source fiable pour un appel aux armes, on se limite souvent à 10% de l’histoire. Ce n’est pas un dépliant officiel de Cadillac Fairview. C’est un dépliant d’un group d'agents immobilier qui cible la communauté Cantonais. Je l’ai reçu dans ma boite à malle car j’habite à Brossard et c’est aller direct dans le recyclage car il y avait l’air tellement cheap. Note que le Mandarin dépasse maintenant le Cantonais a Brossard. Crucifier CF, Canderel, Geoff Molson et pensé que nous retournons en 1955 c’est pas mal exagérer.

From the MontrealInternational press release http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/amazons-2nd-north-american-headquarters---greater-montreal-has-officially-submitted-its-bid-651876133.html A few highlights in the Montréal bid: A deep and growing pool of relevant talent fueled by a world-class education system (Montréal accounts for the highest number of students in Canada (320,000), spread within 11 university institutions and more than 60 colleges); Canada's world class technology hub (Montréal has the highest concentration of tech sector jobs in any Canadian city and reached the international Top 5 of leading cities in video games, visual effects, artificial intelligence and aerospace); Economic and political stability, including an open and efficient immigration system (As a collaboration between the Government of Quebec and the Government of Canada, the Québec component of Canada's Global Skills Strategy helps innovative companies get workers faster by offering a two-week processing time for work permit); A 20% to 25% cost advantage compared to similar cities (thanks to affordable wages, attractive corporate effective tax rate, and low, stable energy costs); A high purchasing power and exceptional quality of life (Montréal offers young professionals housing that costs 25% less than in Toronto and 86% less than in Boston).

They aren't making it public and it was done by MontrealInternational, so its not subject to access to information requests.

It's wierd that Toronto's proposal focused so much on how much better Toronto is than Seattle. Many parts of it read as though they want HQ1.

Phase 3 maintenant en vente - 15 étages La phase du projet est la plus impressionnante à ce jour. Tablant sur les succès des deux phases précédentes, tout a été planifié afin d’offrir les unités parfaites à une clientèle exigeante dans une tour de 15 étages avec des vues dégagées vers l’horizon.

Looks like this project has been completely cancelled. Peritz also revealed a proposed Canderel development on the site of the former Spectrum concert hall on Ste. Catherine St. in the Quartier des Spectacles area is being rethought by the developer. Once slated for an office tower, the project with a density of 1.1 million square feet will likely become a mixed-use development, with shovels hopefully in the ground in the next 12 to 24 months. “Montreal is very healthy,” Peritz says. “The question is will that health extend to the office market?” https://renx.ca/montreal-tour-des-canadiens-3-condo-tower-launches/

En effet - two stubbies for office now

Demandes de démolition : 8475, place Devonshire et 8505, chemin Devonshire http://www.ville.mont-royal.qc.ca/fr/activity/demandes-demolition-8475-place-devonshire-8505-chemin-devonshire

Architex seems to be involved as well somehow http://www.architexgroup.com/projets.asp?s=ip&id=63

Already going into Phase 2

??? PWC has been at the 1250 since at least 2010 and they have a much bigger operation both globally and in Montreal then KPMG. In fact, Raymond Chabot is bigger than both in Montreal and they have been at 600 de la Gauchetiere for as long as I can remember.

Looks like there will be some more waterfront condos in Brossard. http://www.ville.brossard.qc.ca/Brossard/media/Documentation/Greffe/Règlements/2017-08-30-avis_derogations-mineures.pdf Adresses: 8300 - 8320, boulevard Saint-Laurent Lots: 6 135 649 (projeté) 4 089 981 – 4 089 982 (existants) Zone: Hs-408 Dossier: 2017-0376 - Autoriser une hauteur maximale de 16 étages au lieu de 15 étages; - Autoriser une distance entre deux bâtiments principaux sur un même terrain de 19,88 mètres au lieu de 21 mètres

The master plan must have changed - Official launch of October 25th. So did the 20 storey one go down or did the 14 storey one go up? LA TOUR BELVÉDÈRE – Condominiums à vendre Conçue sur 16 étages, la tour Belvédère vous propose 170 condominiums, studios et penthouses de 1 à 3 chambres. Superficies de 415 à 1350 pi2. LA TOUR PANORA – Condos locatifs Conçue sur 26 étages, la tour Panora vous propose 214 condos locatifs allant du studio et 1 à 3 chambres. Superficies de 640 à 1207 pi2.

There is soil testing machinery on site

COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE A Luxury Building Boom Hits Montreal Square Feet By AILI McCONNON SEPT. 26, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/realestate/commercial/a-luxury-building-boom-hits-montreal.html Along the main shopping street in the area of downtown Montreal known as the Golden Square Mile, Sonya Szczygiel and her husband, John Guinto, have sold beaded bracelets made of semiprecious stones for the last five years. From their kiosk on Saint Catherine Street, near Montreal’s downtown Apple Store, the pair have had front row seats for a transformation playing out in the neighborhood and throughout Montreal. The view these days is full of cranes and construction vehicles busy at work. The largest of the developments is the new Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences Montreal, a more than $200 million hotel and condo project that highlights the city’s renaissance as a business and luxury center of Canada. It is one of the many changes that Ms. Szczygiel welcomes. “High-end hotels, stores and restaurants attract people with a higher disposable income,” she said. “That should obviously benefit us and other retailers.” The current revitalization of the Golden Square Mile mirrors the larger comeback of Montreal. During a period of political instability, starting in the 1980s and leading up to a referendum about Quebec leaving Canada in 1995, many companies became skittish of keeping outposts in Montreal. The Four Seasons, which had opened a hotel in 1976 called Le Quatre Saisons, stopped managing the location in 1994. As businesses left, retail and restaurants, particularly the high-end sector in the Golden Square Mile, suffered. But over the last decade, after the city’s politics had stabilized, companies started to come back. New start-ups have popped up, for example, particularly in the fields of technology, artificial intelligence and gaming. Facebook just announced it is creating an artificial intelligence research lab in Montreal, and last fall Google said that it would open a similar facility there. “The stable political environment in Montreal these last years, especially when we take into consideration the more unstable global environment created by Brexit and other elections in Europe, has made Montreal more attractive to business and leisure visitors,” said Denis Coderre, Montreal’s mayor. The increase in businesses has helped spur the development of new office space, luxury hotels and related amenities for visitors. New restaurants are popping up, including Vladimir Poutine, which opened down the road from the new Four Seasons project in early 2017. The restaurant sells high-end versions of Montreal’s famous snack food: fries covered in gravy and cheese curds. Another popular spot for business and leisure visitors is Bota Bota, a floating spa with views of old Montreal on a former ferryboat that used to travel the Saint Lawrence River. “The Montreal economy is booming,” Mr. Coderre said. He added that the unemployment rate had reached one of its lowest levels since 2010, the labor force was growing and investments were increasing. New taxes on foreign investors in Toronto and Vancouver also appear to have played a part. But the city also has something else appealing to business, according to J. Allen Smith, the Four Seasons chief executive: “cultural sophistication, European influences and storied history.” Partnering with Carbonleo Real Estate, a Quebec developer and property manager, the Four Seasons project will include a 166-room hotel and 18 condos priced from nearly $3 million to over $12 million. The hotel will be connected to the flagship location for Ogilvy, a high-end department store that is undergoing more than $100 million in renovations and merging with Holt Renfrew, another luxury retailer. Near the new Four Seasons, the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel just reopened its doors this July after a $114 million renovation. The Ritz Carlton blazed the path for high-end hoteliers in Montreal. The hotel, which first opened in 1912, reopened in 2013 after renovations that cost about $200 million. Those changes added 45 condos, larger hotel guest rooms and now features Maison Boulud, the first Montreal restaurant of acclaimed French chef Daniel Boulud. A surge of visitors to Montreal has helped supercharge the hotel boom. Montreal is on track to hit 11.2 million tourists by the end of 2017, up 20 percent from 2013, according to the Conference Board of Canada and Tourisme Montreal. This summer, as the city celebrated its 375th anniversary, Montreal had the most visitors it has ever had since it began keeping count. Visitors flock to Montreal for business, bachelor and bachelorette parties, as well as music festivals and sports events such as the Montreal International Jazz Festival and the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix car race. With four major universities, Montreal also attracts many students and educators. The Golden Square Mile, where the new Four Seasons will sit, is at the foot of the hilly Mont Royal park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted about 16 years after he helped create Central Park in New York. Between 1850 and 1930, some of North America’s wealthiest families built mansions, as well as churches and universities in the Golden Square Mile. Now boutiques, restaurants, theaters, cinemas, art galleries and book stores populate the area. The developers of the new Four Seasons in Montreal, which is set to open next year, expect the shopping to be a big draw. While many high-end hotels feature luxury boutiques on their street level, the Four Seasons will be connected directly to the 250,000 square foot-luxury Ogilvy/Holt Renfrew department store. The Four Seasons will be a monochromatic 18-story building with tinted windows creating a reflective charcoal facade broken up by “a golden thread that emphasizes the shift between volumes and outlines its main entrances,” said Eric Pelletier, an architect and design principal at the firm designing the project. The gold inlay also highlights the 6,000-square-foot ballroom that will seat 500 guests. Four Seasons brought in Parisian-based architects Gilles and Boissier to design the hotel rooms, which are “a balance of New World and Old World,” said Dana Kalczak, vice president of interior design for Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. In contemporary shades of white, cream, rose and gold, the rooms maximize natural light, including bathrooms with windows that allow light to pass in from the room outside. Old world touches include a built-in cocktail cabinet featuring all the equipment for “shaking up a great cocktail or pouring a super scotch,” said Ms. Kalczak. The building will include condos, which went on sale this June and range from 2,886 to 6,910 square feet. The largest penthouse includes a home gym and 2,060-square foot terrace with a fire pit and the option of a pool. It remains to be seen whether the timing is good. This year the overall condo market is “a lot healthier than it was,” says Hélène Bégin, a senior economist at Desjardins Economics. But she noted that a surplus of high-end condos remain on the market. The most interest in purchasing Four Seasons residences has come from affluent empty nesters from Montreal and further afield, people looking to swap out large family homes for new homes “that don’t represent a downgrade in lifestyle,” said Josée Legault, a marketing director for Carbonleo Real Estate. While Ms. Szczygiel and her husband have been upbeat about how the various new developments, along with Montreal’s many festivals and events, have made the city more dynamic and increased tourism, she acknowledged there is a downside. “We are unfortunately in for a lot of construction,” she said. “But hopefully it will lead to long term benefits for business owners.”

I am having trouble figuring out if it got rounded out or not

We should turn this into a pool/poll - I would vote for Baltimore

I don't think there is a crown

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