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  1. SKYMTL
    Crazy question: why would a 210m height limit be imposed here? According to topographical maps, this area of the city is a good 15m lower than other corridors that have the 210m limit. Therefore, shouldn't the maximum height be 225m?
  2. SKYMTL
    The problem is the promoter has leveraged money to develop other proposed properties in the Ottawa which are ironically now on hold as well: http://www.ottawacommunitynews.com/news-story/5558651-proposed-brookfield-post-secondary-student-residences-on-hold/
  3. SKYMTL
    Correct. There will be a press release sent out in the next three to four weeks.
  4. SKYMTL
    How typical....
  5. SKYMTL
    After all of the problems condo towers equipped with glass curtain walls have experienced across this country, I'm on the fence about whether or not more glass is a good thing. It may look pretty but our climate coupled with condo builders' need to make a quick buck point towards a worrying combination when it comes to installing quality predominantly glass structures.
  6. SKYMTL

    Orizon - 7 étages

    SKYMTL a répondu à un sujet de Lexi dans Complétés

    I read the name as "Onion" at least two times.
  7. SKYMTL
    That's way higher than 210M. Looks like 70 floors to me.
  8. SKYMTL
    To add, I don't think we have a thread for this project yet..... http://www.urbacon.net/construction-begins-544-rue-de-linspecteur-next-generation-data-centre-downtown-montreal/
  9. SKYMTL
    And this....this is how you redevelop a derelict area!
  10. SKYMTL
    A few things I notice: - Did they pave over the de la Montagne south exit from the Ville Marie? It doesn't seem to be there. - The Waldorf + Astoria has moved from the "proposed" color in some of their earlier documents to Blue / Approved. - Many of the proposed construction in this new Quartier will require a revision of Montreal's existing height restrictions - TDC#3 seems to have been approved at its proposed height - There's a large "approved" building all the way to the east that isn't the Peterson. What is it?
  11. SKYMTL
    Only ~10 more floors to go. It won't be taller than the CCE.
  12. SKYMTL
    What was Phase 1 of the Quad Windsor? Are they considering TDC#1 are part of the Quad Windsor now?
  13. SKYMTL
    Gotta love the messed up perspective. With just 26 residential floors the building will actually be shorter than the one to its left.
  14. SKYMTL
    Amen! To make matters worse, that area indicated has FUNCTIONING offices. Investor's Group, Pagenet, Cardiogenix Health Care, TD, Aviron, Pazzaz Printing and many other business are still around in that zone. These aren't derelict buildings we're talking about. Is the city poposing to pay for their relocation? As it stands, it is hard enough to get business set up here and now we're talking about land exporpriation that leads to landlords kicking their corporate tenants out? It just doesn't make sense. Meanwhile, Blue Bonnets just sits there with a pie-in-the-sky development plan that'll never pan out.
  15. SKYMTL
    Remove the lense flare and visual trickery.....the end result is a gaggle of Soviet-style prefab boxes with a few orange lines thrown in for "visual interest". Is this really what we're willing to accept here or are we accepting it just becasuse these developments are a vague sign of life from developers?
  16. SKYMTL
    It's a drab grey and white slab with little to know architectural relevance and a completely disproportionate roofline. Just because a building is tall, it isn't necesarily striking.
  17. SKYMTL
    Mark my words, this will be one of the ugliest buildings in Montreal when completed. I can't beleive this is what most people will see as they approack Montreal from the West. Ugh....
  18. SKYMTL
    The problem remains social infrastructure downtown. Unlike other metropolitan cities, Montreal does not require developers to pay into a fund that goes to pay for things like schools, community centers, recreation, etc. As it stands, thousands of condos are being built without forward thinking solutions for anyone who wants to live in these units past a certain time. It is an insanely short-sighted vision. Young single professionals and empty nesters can't drive the entire industry and as it stands young couples who are looking to start a family have to move away from downtown to get access to the quality services our children will eventually require. My girlfriend and I were in that exact same situation. We looked at Griffintown and saw green spaces being eaten up by rampant development, a huge lack of plans to build schools within a close proximity and absolutely atrocious road conditions. The same went for downtown and the plateau as well. Had spaces been set aside for these services when planning for the redeveloppment then it could have happened. As it stands, any schools, green spaces, etc. will now have to pay a massive premium for land acquisition, burning through funds that just aren't there. Oh, and we bought in Vaudreuil.
  19. SKYMTL
    I pass by here every day. Yesterday there were about 20 (!!) excavators on the site. The round extremes of the site are now completely boarded up and the space is MASSIVE.
  20. SKYMTL

    Evolo S - 25 étages

    SKYMTL a répondu à un sujet de WestAust dans Complétés

    I don't get it. They could have gone to 40+ floors and still sold out. Why keep it so small?
  21. SKYMTL
    Operative words here: FIFTEEN YEARS.
  22. SKYMTL
    C'mon guys.......
  23. SKYMTL
    Went to Code Ambiance on Saturday night. Absolutely AWESOME. However, I worry about the restaurant. Other than our table of four, there were only two other couples there between 6:30PM and 8:30PM.
  24. SKYMTL
    S'il ya un changement, je vais poster ici .... à condition qu'il n'y a pas d'informations confidentielles.
  25. SKYMTL
    I just want to reiterate something. Under no circumstance did the instability begin or end with the PQ, nor did I insinuate that. BOTH sides of the political spectrum have been toxic to economic expansion of projects like this one. Economic protectionism, NIMBYs having too much say, welfare mentality, infrastructure shortcomings, etc. have all led to a very hostile environment for exploitative undertakings. The political instability I was talking about is at all levels of government, not just provincial. My post was in no way targeting the PQ either. Truth be told, the PQ has brought in a number of incentives for developers and leasehold managers to take a second look at Montreal as a viable city for development. I wholly support that regardless of their other ideals. As proof that this post isn't some politically-motivated trite, my information comes directly from the source as the company I work for was considering taking a stake in an initially-proposed ground-level retail component of this development (along with a few other companies supposedly). Since I deal directly with leasing and space development, all of the negotiations or RFI's typically go over my desk in some form or another.
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