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  1. SKYMTL
    This part is the most interesting IMO. It's exactly what that area needs.
  2. SKYMTL
    It changed since this link is now dead: http://www.magil-laurentienne.com/fr/place-university-st-jacques
  3. SKYMTL
    This showed up on my leasing ticker the other day: http://magillaurentienne.altusinsite.com/en/index.php?page=branding_search_buildingdetail&spaceid=24839&backlink=index.php%3Fpage%3Dbranding_search_buildinglist%26attri_40_1641%3D%26attri_20_11%3D920%26location%3D%26attri_40_1740_1%3D%26attri_40_1740_2%3D%26searchbasicbtn%3DFind%2BSpace Seems like 19 floors for lease and the OLD project is back on the table. It should also be noted that the 19+31 floor project has been pulled from every bit of documentation ML has right now other than here: http://www.magil-laurentienne.com/fr/place-university-saint-jacques. Seems that was updated with a bridge between the two towers.
  4. SKYMTL
    I love how they always render these things either at night or dawn / dusk in an effort to mask the "beigeness".
  5. SKYMTL
    Meeting was postponed till next month. However, this is a pretty good read: http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/west-island-gazette/brenda-ofarrell-west-island-is-growing-so-lets-make-some-demands
  6. SKYMTL
    I have to say that I have absolute confidence in the quality of this project. We own a number of units in Rachel Julien's other projects (Quartier 54 & SOMO) and their finishing quality, after sales follow ups and adhesion to plans have been second to none. Other investors we've talked to have the same opinion so I wouldn't be surprised to see this project sell out FAST, primarily due to RJ's past successes. I haven't had the time to look up the zoning height limitations but I'm confident they could add another 10 floors and still sell out. I'm really excited for this one.
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  8. SKYMTL
    A group of us from Kirkland are going to the October 28th meeting in an effort to counteract any NIMBY efforts. From nearly every perspective this is a perfect project for the area. - It reinvigorates an area that has been left a bit desolate since the old Merck building was abandoned - It won't increase residential traffic since it would be built right along the edge of a major highway - It should help offset some of the planned residential tax increases - It will effectively block some of the noise coming from the highway into the residential zones along Brunswick - The "highrises" they are talking about are only 10-15 floors high, well below the zoning limits for that zone I'll update after the meeting.
  9. SKYMTL
    Everyone may notice the ACTUAL building will be exactly like the one pictured by franktko.... . . . Minus the part that matters (ie: floors 17-30).
  10. SKYMTL
    Anything built here will be in direct competition with the Blue Bonnets redevelopment and the Quartier 15/40. Should be interesting.
  11. SKYMTL
    Whatdaya know! More brown paper envelopes. Hopefully this will spark a larger investigation into how this thing was approved by the city in the first place.
  12. SKYMTL
    Is it just me or do those placards for each player look like headstones in a cemetery? It's a poor, low-rent design IMO.
  13. SKYMTL
    So The Gazette tried to plunge the knife into this project and now they twist that knife a bit more. http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/sports-landmark-faces-wrecking-ball Absolutely no mention that the building is a decrepit lump of nothing which NO ONE on the federal or provincial sides wanted to keep around.
  14. SKYMTL
    Here as well. http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/episodes//the-condo-game It should be interesting to see how the differences between Phase 1 and Phase 2 of this project in terms of long term quality.
  15. SKYMTL
    Wow. No HVAC installed either.
  16. SKYMTL
    Seriously?
  17. SKYMTL
    You know, after talking to a few of my friends who live in Toronto's glass towers (one at Maple Leaf Square South and the other at Success Tower) I have a bit of a different view of this tower's prefab construction. Both complain of minor water infiltration, balcony's being inaccessible due to cracked / ill-fitting glass, condensation, an extreme cold zone near the glazing in winter, etc. etc. While some of this may be due to a lack of quality construction (the Montreal towers surely won't be immune to this), the fact of the matter is that glass curtain walls in condo towers are rarely given the features necessary to cope with residential environments due to cost cutting. While they may look modern, I have a feeling that the folks who bought in TDC may, in the long term, be better off than those buying in Icone and Avenue.
  18. SKYMTL
    No way. There's just no way Montreal's office vacancy rate has reached such low proportions that 1300 employees would be shifted into the OS tower. I was under the impression the last time those office facilities were upgraded was in the early 90's.
  19. SKYMTL
    Likely not since many of the higher end retailers that make Yorkdale one of Canada's leaders in sales per square foot won't be opening in Quebec. Anchor or major tenants like Nordstrom's, Lowes, Uniqlo, The Disney Store, All Saints, White House / Black Market and others have avoided our province for obvious reasons. Without retail industry expansion in Montreal, malls like this one will be either stuck with the same old tenants (do we really need yet another Banana Republic?), too much lease-able space (Marche Central is a perfect example) or will have to scale down their design. Let's be honest here for a minute. In the last few years we have effectively lost Target, Smart Set, Ecko, Mexx, Laura, Jacob, Style Exchange, and many other players. This is a contracting industry. In order to effectively build a mall with the design and scope that Carbonleo is proposing, they need to drive the maximum rent per square foot for an effective long term ROI. That won't happen in today's retail environment and it certainly won't happen in the Montreal region, an area that continues to have the lowest retail rent rates among Canada's 7 major cities. Yes, we are below even Ottawa. I'll say it here and everyone can quote me as this project progresses. Everything about this proposal feels "off".
  20. SKYMTL
    Makes me wonder if the 1.2 billion includes the $85 million in relocation and construction fees to move Ericsson here. The more I look into this, the more their proposed project doesn't make any financial sense at all.
  21. SKYMTL
    Couldn't have found a better link myself....
  22. SKYMTL
    Based on previous projects in Montreal and abroad, I am worried about CarbonLeo presenting a grand, well-developed yet ultimately unrealistic project in an effort to influence the city and public's opinion and to push through an approval. Then, gradually dumb it down to a shadow of its former self through revisions they KNOW the city will have to approve due to taxation dollars alone. In short, I am worried about this proposal morphing into yet another mega strip mall...something NO ONE wants and something Montreal doesn't need. However, based on financial investments alone, that's exactly what is bound to happen here. The dollar value doesn't match up to the proposal.
  23. SKYMTL
    According to financial numbers from the last investments, Quartier Dix30 cost about $550 million to build thus far and is valued at just over 1 billion. That's with bare bones construction for most of its buildings, not required demolition and one small underground parking. Mirabel cost just over $100 million. I'll say there's just no way Carbonleo will go forward with this design.
  24. SKYMTL
    From Carbonleo. This wasn't what I was expecting AT ALL. Where's the parking exactly? Anyone want to bet this will go through about 20 "dumbed down" revisions? 110% it will never look like this. People on the roofs. Covered pedestrian walkways with glass roofs. A "green" roof. Office towers. Potential underground parking. This isn't a 1.2 billion dollar project; it would be MUCH more costly than that.
  25. SKYMTL
    Now its the birthplace of figure skating? Are you kidding me? It's like The Gazette has a team of interns exclusively working on digging up a ton of meaningless information about this property in an effort to start some form of controversy. Next up on the Gazette's portfolio: "Ste Catherine Street Sewer Work Should Be Halted! Some fur trappers may or may not have killed a rabbit here 300 years ago."
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