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1 hour ago, GDS said:

http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/west-island-gazette/kirkland-mayor-pleased-with-progress-of-plans-for-urban-boulevard

Isn't this the proposed solution to what you are talking about?

Source:  http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/west-island-gazette/pierrefonds-roxboro-mayor-remains-hopeful-for-new-urban-boulevard

"“That’s something we’ve been working on for years. It’s pencilled in the capital works program, but with no clear indication this will happen anytime soon. It’s possibly longterm planning and won’t be even looked at till 2020, which is unreasonable.”

56 minutes ago, Cataclaw said:

Connectivity is pretty bad in that area. I agree with the urban boulevard. Emphasis on the urban. It should have sidewalks, bicycle lanes and no more than 2 vehicle lanes per direction. If any development is to occur along that boulevard, it should be urban in nature given the proximity to the REM station (i.e. transit-oriented development).

I'm not convinced such a boulevard would need to extend beyond Antoine-Faucon though, as  connectivity north of this collector is better and an extension beyond that point could have negative impacts (sprawl, induced demand, etc.)

Yes to the boulevard, but it needs to be designed well to avoid repeating blunders of the past. The goal should be to improve access to the station, build TODs and leverage transit connections.. not generate new 1960s sprawl.

I agree.  But then again the whole area immediately southeast of the shopping center would need to be redone as well.  The fact that the service road of a major artery on the island of Montreal simply stops at Ste Marie is inconceivable.  Any future project MUST properly connect the service road from Ste Marie to the service road at Morgan.  

18 hours ago, montrealgoalie said:

Dans le west island, si les gens ne peuvent pas se stationner, ils n'iront pas. Ca prends absolument du stationnement.

Bingo.  

Not only that but there is just no good options for buses in the area of the Kirkland station.  The reason for this is the short-sighted vision of Kirkland to essentially cut off a large portion of the city to through-traffic by separating Antoine-Faucon from the southern portion.  The bus routes would have to go all the way through small streets or clog up Saint Charles even more. 

Timberlea meanwhile has it a bit better since even though their direct access is cut, they can travel east down the quasi service road (Ste Marie) to this area.  

If this REM station gets built without some very serious road network re-alignment here, it will be an absolute disaster.   With or without a parking area.  

18 hours ago, budgebandit said:

You could always use that as a negotiating tactic to get a better price

Yeah but we put quality of life before price in this case.    

Just now, nephersir7 said:

There are three components in the project:

1) REM Station accesses & integration
2) The boulevard itself
3) The interchange 

#1 is definitely happening & prioritized, while #2 #3 are at least being delayed and might utimately be scrapped. 

You're highlighting my concern of infrastructure lagging far behind the development of public transport in this case.  I pass by this area every day and I know exactly what is going to happen:  

1) People will pass through small residential streets (Elkas for example) to get to the REM station.  This will cause no small amount of danger in already-congested areas, not to mention around the school on Elkas.  

2)  The service road -which already has serious flow problems due to the "traffic calming" stop sign right after the current overpass- will become even more of a nightmare.

3)  Citizens will complain (if you thought downtown has NIMBY's, wait till you see what the West Islanders cook up!) which will lead to more traffic calming measures.  

Basically what I am saying is that I think the Kirkland station shouldn't be built until the road access infrastructure is complete (urban boulevard, proper service road and overpass)

43 minutes ago, cprail said:

Les signaux de l'administration municipale ne sont pas non plus très clairs non plus sur le devenir du futur boulevard urbain dans l'axe 440 (quoi qu'il demeure inscrit au PTI).

My point is that "Future" is not what's needed.  

4 minutes ago, SkahHigh said:

I believe they plan on re-doing the interchange as part of the REM construction.

The interchange is supposed to be done in parallel with the project mentioned above (the urban boulevard).  At this point there's no approvals, consultation or even a timeline for that.  It'll become another Cavendish situation but we're just not admitting it. 

Source:  http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/west-island-gazette/pierrefonds-roxboro-mayor-remains-hopeful-for-new-urban-boulevard

"“That’s something we’ve been working on for years. It’s pencilled in the capital works program, but with no clear indication this will happen anytime soon. It’s possibly longterm planning and won’t be even looked at till 2020, which is unreasonable.”

37 minutes ago, SkahHigh said:

There will be a complete overhaul of the interchange to adress that issue. 

It is another "putting the wagon before the horse" situation.  The station + parking is supposed to be built before the overpass modifications are even started.  

6 minutes ago, SkahHigh said:

Je me demande aussi. J'ai trois hypothèses:

- Il a été réduit et ne fait plus partie de l'édicule de la station en tant que tel.

- Il est tel quel et n'est pas illustré pour fins esthétiques.

- Il est situé plus au nord de la station.

A few observations:  

-  There is no way the road network around there could sustain an influx of 2,500 cars heading to / from a parking lot.  As it stands, there's minor gridlock on Friday / Saturday nights when movies at the Colisee all finish at the same time.   That needs to change right away. 

-  On the other hand, without that massive parking lot this station will be a failure.  The same thing with the Morgan one.   

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“We had made really good headway in the last four years,” De Sousa said.

Sorry but:  that's BS.  

Really good progress is to either completely shelve this project or just build the damn thing!

On 2/10/2018 at 5:49 PM, _mtler_ said:

I heard nothing only 1 sold

My family actually looked at one as an investment since my parents want to move back into town as they retire next year.  The price is right, the location is amazing and the floor plans VERY generous.  

The problem is the noise right now and for the foreseeable future.  Buying a penthouse "above" all the noise is one thing but purchasing one of those townhouses basically guarantees you'll be in construction hell for the next half decade at least with YUL 2, 975 Lucien L' Allier, etc. all going up at staggered intervals.   

On 2/7/2018 at 10:40 PM, vivreenrégion said:

Bon,,.... Westmount qui veut faire arrêter les travaux de la Route 136.
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1082762/echangeur-turcot-westmount-arret-travaux

I absolutely despise NIMBYs but after visiting my friend in Westmount on Hillside and OMG was the noise bad on Saturday night.  It is completely unacceptable and this is coming from someone who used to live in Bois Franc right in the path of Trudeau's flight path.   

Why is it that Quebec is so far behind when it comes to mitigation of construction issues?  I mean more than a decade ago Boston installed sound blankets around the Big Dig to help mitigate the noise:  http://www.construction-noise.com/boston-big-dig.html  By all reports, they worked extremely well.  

Personally, I hope all the coverage about these noise issues will fix something.  If not for this project then others in the future.  

4 hours ago, JB667 said:

Link doesn’t work for me .

edit : Or did you mean the link itself is for sale ?

The domain is for sale.  

15 minutes ago, Ousb said:

?????

They are almost single handedly destroying the notion of good design in Montreal.  Every one of their projects looks the same:  prefab, prefab, prefab!

OMG:

http://www.geigerhuot.com/projets/

41 minutes ago, budgebandit said:

So cute that they wanted to start digging before Broccolini releases the render for their new residential tower 

"Before"?  Considering Broccolini is months away from launching sales and TDC3 has bona fide buyers, I'm pretty sure there's very little to no correlation between the two.  

More likely they wanted to get this thing going before the Canadiens begin their fire sale and officially enter "rebuilding mode", thus further devaluing the brand for the foreseeable future.   

13 minutes ago, franktko said:

D'après un article de LaPresse, c'est plutôt ça les taux à Calgary...

 

They are taking the CBRE numbers that don't include AAA, AA, or converted "I" class offices.    

Last I checked CBRE publishes those separately.  Going to dig those up since they are behind a pay wall.  

I'm all for development but thank goodness for that.  

17 minutes ago, mcgill101 said:

Asking rents were up 4.8 per cent, year over year, to $22.22 per square foot for Class A office buildings in downtown Montreal.

This right here is what's preventing and will continue to prevent the building of large-scale office space developments in Montreal.  Given initial construction costs and ongoing maintenance costs the ROI terms on a sub-$30 per square foot office lease aren't favorable in the least.  This is why the buildings we have seen as of late have been "right sized" for our market (20-25 floors) rather than oversized.  

The laws of supply and demand haven't squeezed our market enough to warrant higher rents at this point.  

For an example of what office lease rates do for development, look to Calgary.  Once their rates trended above $40/sq.ft. (they eventually hit $55 I think) the amount of office space development spiked.  Brookfield Place, The Bow, Eighth Avenue, etc. were all started or proposed around the same 5 year window after the ROI quotient made sense.  Now granted, that boom time is done but the current rate for Class A office space in Calgary is still around $30 / sq.ft.  

All of this to say:  unless its for a major anchor tenant, I wouldn't expect to see any large-scale office construction until we have exponentially higher rents.  

40 minutes ago, mcgill101 said:

I would also add that one of the main developers of this project, Daniel Revah, is a shady businessman with a bad track record. He was also behind the Redfern project in Westmount, which also suffered severe delays. Both projects had very high costs overrun and he was forced to seek additional funds from an outside investor.

It's definitely important to know who you are buying from and to have a solid understanding of the people behind a project. Going forward, I would be very hesitant about any project that this man is involved in. 

Seems those projects will soon have a sibling too:  https://www.corev.ca/1420montroyal

So the whole "210M" in the title is completely based off a rumor of a rumor through a second-hand source?  I just want to bring this up again and again when everyone goes crazy after the true height is announced.  

On 2/3/2018 at 7:19 PM, nephersir7 said:

Le maire actuel de Mirabel, en 2013:

S’il est élu maire en novembre, M. Bouchard fera en sorte que le développement durable soit intégré dans les prochains projets de construction. Son expérience professionnelle d’urbaniste lui permettra, pense-t-il, d’adopter une approche plus détaillée. «En tant qu’urbaniste professionnel, le développement durable est très important pour moi»,affirme-t-il.
http://www.nordinfo.com/actualites/mirabel-jean-bouchard-sera-candidat-a-la-mairie/

 

When money talks, sensibilities walk.   

13 minutes ago, joaosax said:

I wonder why they stopped digging? Is it normal to stop construction during this time of year?

Because after talking about it, debating and having two commissions that spanned a decade, like so many things in Montreal, it'll take half again as long to get built. 

I think this should be filed under "Vision".  Looking through Vizual 3D's past, they tend to do a lot of conceptual renderings without associated clients.  Its a smart way to expand their visual portfolio but I don't think we can take this rendering for a true "proposal".    

This is from the Reliance site: 

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

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