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I hope they modify the seating on these buses to allow for suitcases and carry on wheelees.

Diversity and visible minorities aren't a one to one relationship. I hate these studies that prioritize visible difference. Like Irish, French, Russians and Danes and all homogeneous. Like an immigrant from India brings more diversity then an immigrant from Italy.

^Non, mais ils veulent un débat publique. Déjà, beaucoup se posse la question de pourquoi on est obligé d’utiliser des pneus. Spécialement quand on parle d’une aubaine de 1.5 milliards ce foi si, combien sera l’aubaine dans 40 ans quand ils devront renouveler la flotte de métro encore. Combien de plus sa nous coutera pour élargir le réseau actuel comparativement a un réseau sur rail?

You have to keep in mind that when this project was initially being designed, it was expected that projects like 701 university (already had desjardins and morgan stanley) & 900 de maisonneuve (SITQ had just joined) and either the canderel project or the westcliff project would have been completed (or near) by the time these lots would have been ready for development. The city was absorbing well over a million sqft a year and none of these proprosals is much more then 500k sqft of office space because of the proposed height limit for the area. The tower furthest north was being pitched to Shangri-La Hotels, so that is not office space either. Had the market not shifted, then I think it would have been plausable that these lots be developped before the lot in front of the Bell Center or others in the traditional downtown, especially had the Griffentown project gone ahead as well. The lot in front of the Bell Center can potentially have more office space then all the proposed towers on Duke combined.

1961 - 1 739 932 (467 616 ménages) - 3.7 p/ménages 1966 - 1 918 231 (549 474 ménages) - 3.5 p/ménages 1971 - 1 955 375 (609 309 ménages) - 3.2 p/ménages 1961 - 2 098 926 (548 885 ménages) - 3.8 p/ménages 1966 - 2 429 468 (667 038 ménages) - 3.6 p/ménages 1971 - 2 569 398 (766 116 ménages) - 3.4 p/ménages Shows the trend in one decade of smaller families and people living single for longer.

Well - there isn't a vacant lot downtown that doesn't already belong to someone. I think the parking lot that he bought cost 20 million.

It says "basilaire de 11 étages" - that doesn't nec. have to be all office space.

Nice surprise. I should think negatively out loud more often so I can be wrong this this.

The project didn't respect the plan d'urbanisme of the city. The tower was outside of the permissable height zone by 12 meters because the frontage preserved by the victorian homes. The hotel part of the project was not a new hotel but an expansion of the A2K hotel that Ali Khan already owns. The hotel is quite small but caters to the Bangladeshi community. From what I know, Ali Khan is focusing on the mountain he recently bought in the Laurentians over this project at the moment.

I think we can forget about this one. The project was going to be developped by Rizzuto & Tony Magi. One was killed, the other was almost killed.

Our olympics was a boondoggle because of corruption, crime and incompetence. There's is turning into a boondoggle because of El Nino, higher security costs and a world financial crisis in the housing market of which the city has a good chance or recouping because the Vancouver market is still quite strong. There is a big difference, ours were in a our sphere of control, there's are not.

Phase 1 http://www.constructionsmusto.com/main.cfm?p=11&l=fr&Segment=VE&BlocID=306 North of Marché Central Phase 2

I think it will look a lot better when they start adding the black curve panels

I only see 5 floors now

One of the best articles I have read.. How Quebec 'cornered' hydro power Published Monday February 22nd, 2010 (telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com) From: a political slogan, 'maitres chez nous,' to the biggest hydroelectric utility in the world MONTREAL - The home of Hydro-Québec is a low-rise office tower in the heart of this city's financial district, the top marked with the signature orange H on one side and the Q with the lightning bolt tail on the other. On the corner of the building at street level is a granite bust of René Lévesque. He's wearing a skull cap of wet snow on this winter morning. This is a place of honour for the man who launched the Hydro-Québec story with the slogan maîtres chez nous, "masters in our own house." It began with Lévesque but it was Robert Bourassa who pursued the potential in the water and the drop in the far north on a grand scale that created the largest hydroelectric utility in the world. A block away from Hydro-Québec headquarters on the street that is now called René Lévesque Boulevard, is the home office of the engineering giant SNC-Lavalin (whose history is intertwined with Hydro-Québec). It's a short walk up the street to the grand old Queen Elizabeth Hotel, the office of the law firm of Ogilvy Renault that Brian Mulroney joined upon his retirement, and the offices of Heenan Blaikie, the home office for Pierre Trudeau after politics. The major Canadian banks have their high rises in this neighbourhood and the Bell Centre, the home of the Montreal Canadiens is here. The Montreal offices of the premier of Quebec are on this street, and until 2003 were located in the Hydro-Québec building. As Christmas shoppers slog through slush on St. Catherine Street a block to the northwest, Thierry Vandal sips bottled water on a couch in a modestly appointed executive office suite at headquarters, discussing his utility's strategic interest in New Brunswick. "Our interest is associated with geography," says the chief executive officer of Hydro-Québec. "It's going to be about moving power efficiently. It's about taking carbon out of the equation over time. The geography of New Brunswick is the key to this." The geography of New Brunswick is about moving electricity efficiently throughout eastern North America and into markets in the United States. The geography of northern Quebec and Labrador is about generating this energy with water. There are 130,000 rivers and a million lakes in Quebec. This province, with a vast northern region that is larger than Ontario, holds 40 per cent of Canada's hydro potential. In central Quebec, the Otish Mountains mark the fall line where water flows either south into the St. Lawrence River, or north into James Bay. Hydro power has been developed on both sides of the fall line, but the big ones lie in the north. In Labrador, it was the spectacular 75-metre drop of the falls on the Churchill River and a bowl-shaped plateau above it that inspired hydro developers. It is the cascade of water down the Lower Churchill River that has Newfoundland developers still planning to make more power on that river. Today, the hydro story has taken a turn that the pioneers decades ago couldn't have foreseen. "We didn't know how big the question of carbon emissions was going to become," Vandal says. Today, carbon emissions and their contribution to climate change is the big question for power generators. Hydro-Québec is holding one of the largest portfolios of renewable, electricity in the world. What Quebec needs are new markets and efficient ways to transmit power to them, particularly in the eastern United States, where the price paid for electricity is three-and-a-half times what it is in Montreal. New Brunswick is one market, and one transmission route. Newfoundland has more hydro to develop in Labrador, but it also must find a transmission route, first through Quebec, to reach these markets. The two major hydro producers in eastern North America share a similar geography in the northern wilderness, but their histories come from opposite sides of a cultural divide. Hydro-Québec wasn't the first to develop big hydro in North America. The Hoover Dam on the Colorado River and the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River were built in the 1930s and 1940s, and various hydro projects had been developed at Niagara Falls since the turn of the century. However, when Quebec started developing big hydro, it moved forward with astonishing speed and ambition, soon surpassing the Hoover, Grand Coulee and Niagara in size and power generation capacity. The early developments led to the big one, the giant La Grande Rivière complex 1,000 kilometres north of Montreal. There was never anything like the La Grande development before it was launched in 1971, and eight generating stations, 65 turbines, 350 dams and dikes later, there never will be again. The Hydro-Québec story began with the election of the Liberal government of Jean Lesage in 1960 and the appointment of a chain-smoking former journalist named René Lévesque as minister of natural resources. Within two years, Lévesque had announced plans to nationalize the remaining private electricity generators in the province at a cost of $600 million. The plan was so contentious that the Lesage Liberals called a snap election. During the campaign, the Liberals came up with the slogan maîtres chez nous to sell the creation of the new Hydro-Québec. After the Liberals won a majority, maîtres chez nous became the mantra for hydroelectric development in the north. The first big one was on the Manicouagan and Outardes rivers on the north shore, 200 kilometres north of the port at Baie Comeau. The two main dams, Manicouagan 2 and Manicouagan 5, created enormous reservoirs, the largest of which took seven years to fill. The Manic-5 dam (now named Daniel Johnson after the former premier), completed in 1969, is the largest arch-and-buttress dam in the world. It was engineered by Surveyer, Nenniger & Chênevert, the founders of SNC-Lavalin. The dam contains enough concrete to build a sidewalk from the North Pole to the South Pole. During the construction period, a truck carrying cement powder left the Baie Comeau port every 20 minutes, 24 hours a day, every day for six months of the year. Today, the four Manic generating stations have an installed capacity of 4,860 megawatts of power, more than all NB Power generators combined. For Lévesque, the development of big hydro was about recognizing Quebec's natural advantage and making big things happen. "Quebec is a French province and French Canadians economically are a group of people who are have nots," Lévesque told a CBC television documentary producer in March, 1964. One of the goals of the hydro development, he said, was to increase French Canadian participation in the economy. "It's part of a great master plan in this way," he said. "There is a great block of power on the north shore of Quebec that is comparable to anything in the world. It is one of the greatest engineering jobs in the world right now, certainly the biggest in the world at the moment with power, and it also ties in a little bit with the maîtres chez nous thing because that huge complex is being developed in French. It sounds silly maybe to an English Canadian. From one end of the other of that huge construction job, it is all French Canadian people doing this in their own language. We are proving we can do it." Meanwhile, another journalist turned politician with large ambitions was pursuing his own agenda in the north. A decade before Lévesque launched the maîtres chez nous campaign, Joey Smallwood, the premier of Newfoundland, had travelled to London, England, with a plan to sell a development proposal to British investors that, among other things, involved the creation of a giant hydro plant at a place called Hamilton Falls in Labrador. Smallwood hoped this would be a project of the British Empire, modelled after the Hudson's Bay Co. Smallwood began his sales pitch at 10 Downing Street during a meeting with Winston Churchill, a rare entrée that had been arranged by New Brunswick's Lord Beaverbrook, who called in a favour with his old friend who by then was in his 80s and nearing the end of his political career. Smallwood spread a map of Labrador on the cabinet table in Churchill's office and within days had captured the attention of old British money that included the Rothchilds and the Oppenheimers. The British-Newfoundland Corporation (BRINCO) was formed and Smallwood changed the name of the Hamilton River to Churchill as a gesture of gratitude for the British prime minister's support. Smallwood and BRINCO spent the next decade pursuing a massive hydroelectric development in Labrador. The engineering plans were audacious. In the middle of the Labrador wilderness, working in the harshest conditions imaginable, workers would carve a giant tunnel that would funnel water from above the falls downstream to a point that would decrease the drop from 300 m to 75 m. A series of dikes would close in the plateau and create the Smallwood reservoir, 6,000 square kilometres of water, an enormous store of potential power. A dozen Smallwood reservoirs would flood New Brunswick. In an underground powerhouse, 11 massive turbines would produce 5,400 megawatts of electricity. Construction began in 1967, at the same time that Lévesque's Manic project was coming on line. With BRINCO on the verge of bankruptcy, Smallwood reluctantly turned to French Canadians and the government of Lesage to make his project possible. Churchill Falls needed investment, engineering skill, and a transmission corridor. Hydro-Québec became a shareholder and brought to Labrador the primary innovation that had come out of the Manic development, namely how to move the power efficiently from remote northern Canada to the big cities hundreds of kilometers to the south. That innovation came from a reclusive Hydro-Québec engineer named Jean-Jacques Archambault who developed a system for transmitting power at 735,000 volts from Manicouagan to Quebec City and Montreal. Before Achambault engineered the 735Kv line, power had been transmitted at 345,000 volts. Increasing voltage is like increasing water pressure in a pipe. Higher pressure will increase water flow. The amount of electricity flow in a transmission wire is the current. The higher the voltage, the less current needed to transmit the same amount of energy. The 735Kv line allowed more electricity to move at a higher pressure on thinner lines with fewer losses along the way. (A certain amount of electricity is lost during transmission when the movement of electrons generates heat). "Our grid is unique in the world," says Claude Demers, a Hydro-Québec scientist. "The challenge for us is to deliver power at very high voltage at minus 35 in January when we need electricity to heat. All our difficulties were related to cold and icing, and to reduce losses on the grid." The Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec would later name the 735Kv line the most important engineering development of the 20th century. (The National Academy of Engineering in the United States named large electric power systems the greatest invention of the 20th century.) "Without 735Kv there would be no Churchill Falls and no La Grande," Demers says. By the time Churchill Falls was in the final stages of completion, nuclear power had become the new technological darling of the power generation business and the Parti Québecois, led by Lévesque, was supporting a move away from hydroelectricity into nuclear generation. However, in 1970, Robert Bourassa won the Liberal leadership and the election later that year, and the dream of big hydro was back on. In 1971, Bourassa announced the "project of the century," a hydro development on La Grande Rivière, the second largest river in Quebec that flows northwest into James Bay above the fall line. When Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau travelled to Labrador for the official opening of the Churchill Falls station in June 1972, he said what had been built could be compared is size and scope to the pyramids of Egypt "but with a usefulness which promises the benefits of a Nile." However, the great promise of Churchill Falls was never realized in Newfoundland. As a condition of its participation, Hydro-Québec signed a deal with Smallwood to allow it to purchase power at a fixed and declining rate (which at the time was higher cost than alternative thermal power plants) until 2041, and it would have the right to resell the power for whatever profit the market would allow. From Quebec's perspective, this agreement mitigated the risks it took by participating in a project it never really wanted, which caused it to delay by a decade its own developments in the north. The 1973 Arab-Israel war triggered an international energy crisis and soaring electricity prices; Newfoundland was left with bitter disappointment and Quebec with a windfall. By then, Bourassa's attention was fully on La Grande Rivière, and he faced a new challenge. He needed to make a deal with the Cree and Inuit of northern Quebec, who had gone to court to stop the project, and had won a temporary injunction to stop the development in 1973. The injunction was overturned, but the court challenge sent the Bourassa government to the negotiating table. In 1975, the government of Canada, Quebec, Hydro-Québec, the Cree and Inuit signed the landmark James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement that changed the world for the native people of the north. The agreement transferred millions of dollars to the Cree and Inuit, but it was about more than money and land. It also gave them self government and control of hunting and fishing rights in an area 350,000 square kilometres, one fifth of the province, from the Otish Mountains in central Quebec to the shores of James Bay. The agreement allowed the development to proceed. Roads and airports were built. Thousands of workers entered the territory. Rivers were diverted and land was flooded. By the time the first phase of La Grande Rivière came online in 1979, René Lévesque was in the premier's office and Bourassa had to watch from the sidelines as his political rival turned the switch at the La Grande-2, the largest underground powerhouse in the world, with a row of 16 turbines that produce 5,600 megawatts of power. Lévesque may have been in the place of honour at the opening, but when Bourassa arrived at La Grande for the ceremonies and entered the huge cafeteria on the site, hundreds of construction workers pushed back their chairs and rose in a sustained, spontaneous standing ovation. Eventually, the La Grande complex would produce 16,000 megawatts of power in eight generating stations that with their reservoirs stretched 800 kilometres west across northern Quebec to James Bay. The construction phase of the project lasted 25 years and cost $18 billion. Bourassa died in October, 1996, just as the final phase of the La Grande was being completed. Two days after his death, the Quebec government named the entire La Grande-2 complex, Robert Bourassa. As it turned out, says Vandal with characteristic soft-spoken understatement, the hydro development in Quebec was a solid investment. What's a hydro generating facility worth these days? A small 33 megawatt run-of-the-river generating plant in northern New York State recently sold for $80 million US. The same plant changed hands 10 years earlier for $22.5 million US. What value could be placed on Hydro-Québec's 34,118 megawatts of installed hydro, most of it fed by large reservoirs that can store water for years? New Brunswick is being asked to connect itself to the Hydro-Québec story. For Vandal, this is as predictable and stable a story as any in the world. "We are tied to the history of Quebec, to the geography of Quebec," Vandal says. "We are not going anywhere."

Nuns’ Island’s heritage site to become new community centre By P.A. Sévigny As of last week, a world-famous heritage site on Nuns’ Island may become Verdun’s newest community centre. “It’s a great idea,” said Harold Ship — one of Montreal’s leading architects. “Any modern architect would jump at the chance to work on a Mies Van Der Rohe building.” As Ship was one of the original architects who worked on the Nuns’ Island development project, he told The Suburban he was familiar with Van Der Rohe’s famous service station and “quite liked it.” More to the point, he said it was a good example of post-modern architecture because it managed to blend both form and function into a single building which deserves its status as one of the city’s unique heritage sites. At last week’s special borough council meeting, city councilors approved a specific grid by which city authorities would examine and evaluate specific bids for the site’s future transformation into La maison des generations — the island’s new community centre. As the former service station is now considered to be one of the city’s singular pieces of original architecture, city authorities are specifically concerned about plans to conserve the site’s original integrity, its future design as a working community centre and on-site work supervision. As ever, initial cost estimates for the building’s conversion ($500,000) were far too optimistic and as the bill climbed into the million dollar zone, borough authorities were forced to open the project to a public bidding process. Located near the heart of the island, the American real estate developers who were originally in charge of the project hired Van Der Rohe to design the gas station while he was already working on other projects in the city during its boom years previous to the time when the PQ was first elected. “He probably made a quick sketch and handed it off to an assistant,” said Ship. “That’s the way things were done in those days.” For the time it was built in 1967 until ESSO announced its intention to terminate its lease and close the station in 2008, people could still buy gas, a candy bar and a deck of smokes at one of the city’s more remarkable heritage sites before making their way up the expressway and into the city. At 86, Ship is still a working architect. Once he learned the borough was soliciting bids for the island’s new Maison des generations, he said he was going to take a serious look at the project. “It would be nice to get the work,” he said, “but any kind of modern architect knows working on a Van Der Rohe building could be just as much of a challenge as it is a privilege. As far as I’m concerned, it would be a pleasure.”

Mais St Jérôme fait parti du CMA de Montréal. St Jean sur Richelieu n'y est pas. Je parle aussi de la direction de l'autoroute. Suivant la 10 - après Brossard il y a Chambly. Mais sur la 15 après Boisbriand, y'en a beaucoup. Ste-Thérèse et Boisbriand c'est la même chose, un bord de l'autoroute ou l'autre. Pas vraiment grave, je comprenais ton point.

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Pas vraiment. Vers le sud (sud-est) après Brossard, il ya pas grand chose oui, mais aprés Boisbriand, il y a Blainville et St-Jerome qui sont les deux plus grand que Boisbriand.

Le terrain vague du Saint-Francois a été vendu à Hotel Jaro il y a deux ans. Il y a aussi the stationnement de l’Aldred - lui avec une proposition de Cardinal Hardy qui a déjà été approuvé pas la ville. Il y a des centaines de terrains vague a Montréal qui sont dans les mains du privé. On peut ce permettre que la ville essaye d'en développer une couple comme dans QdS. Si le privé ne construit pas du au manque de locataire et de financement, c'est normal que la ville aille de la difficulté aussi. Le terrain de metro St.Laurent serait vide avec le privé aussi. Entre Ste.Catherine et Réné Levesque été dans les mains du privé et c'est de la chiote.

750 c'est la population de la ville - mais c'est apx 400k (382k en 2005) qui sont dans la population active.

Pas sur que ca ferme le dossier. Leur soumission inclura les modifications au réseau et rails, est même avec ce fardeau, ils pensent êtres capable de battre le prix de Bombardier/Alstom. De plus c'est de la bullshit. Les trains peuvent être construit a n’import quel hauteur. Ils n’auront pas besoin de creuser. Oui, le system de signalisation devra être modifié, mais on ne recommence pas a zéro, on parle d’un cout additionnelle de 5 – 10 millions.

It is already a mixed use. The building will be 35% parking.

La Caisse de dépôt perd son partenaire pour le 900, De Maisonneuve Hugo Joncas . Les Affaires . 06-02-2010 SITQ, filiale immobilière de la Caisse de dépôt et placement, a perdu son partenaire dans la construction du 900, De Maisonneuve Ouest, une tour de 28 étages et d'une superficie de 37 000 mètres carrés, qui serait située entre les rues Mansfield et Metcalfe, à Montréal. Son partenaire dans le projet, Hines, tourne le dos à Montréal. Le promoteur immobilier de Houston, au Texas, a revendu en décembre ses parts du projet à SITQ pour 9,75 millions de dollars. L'idée était pourtant celle du promoteur texan qui, en 2002, annonçait son intention d'ériger cette tour de prestige. En 2006, SITQ a acheté une participation de 50 % dans les terrains situés à côté de l'hôtel en construction sur l'emplacement de l'ancien restaurant Ben's. SITQ est maintenant unique propriétaire du terrain de plus de 4 400 mètres carrés (près de 48 000 pieds carrés). " C'était le souhait de Hines de se retirer de Montréal ", dit Amélie Plante, porte- parole de SITQ. Jointe au Texas, la société nie vouloir se retirer du marché montréalais. Mais dans les faits, ses seuls projets canadiens sont à Toronto et Calgary. Qu'à cela ne tienne. " C'est un projet que nous pouvons très bien développer seuls ", affirme Mme Plante. Bernard Poliquin, président du cabinet de services en immobilier Avison Young, croit que SITQ n'aura pas trop de difficulté à trouver un nouveau partenaire si elle décide d'adopter cette stratégie. " Plusieurs investisseurs sont à la recherche d'immeubles récents, dit-il. Il y a énormément de fonds de pension et de fonds souverains qui pourraient être des partenaires potentiels. " Plusieurs projets immobiliers paralysés Le retrait de Hines menace-t-il la réalisation du projet du boulevard De Maisonneuve ? " Je ne pense pas que ce soit plus ou moins sur les tablettes qu'avant ", soutient Michel Bouchard, évaluateur en immobilier commercial au Groupe Altus. À son avis, le projet n'est pas prêt de démarrer en raison des conditions actuelles du marché. " Je ne pense pas qu'on verra les grues de sitôt. " Les autres projets de tours de bureaux dans le centre-ville de Montréal sont eux aussi bloqués depuis des mois, voire des années. Les promoteurs attendent qu'un locataire majeur se manifeste avant de mettre leurs projets en chantier. Depuis plus de 20 ans, Westcliff veut construire un immeuble d'une trentaine d'étages au nord de la Tour de la Bourse. Kevric, Magil Laurentienne, Sidev et Canderel ont eux aussi annoncé des projets au centre-ville ces dernières années, mais aucun d'entre eux n'a encore démarré.