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  1. SKYMTL
    NCG was always billed as a multi-function space. Nothing has changed. They still host everything from corporate meet & greets to weddings to art exhibits. Yeah, its also a dance club but from the very beginning that's the way it was marketed and no one raised a finger. You also can't have a place like NCG in a more isolated location and still be in a hip, happening part of downtown. Its at the very end of Dalhousie, bordered by train tracks on one side and industrial buildings on the other side. This is a purely NIMBY movement that's trying to somehow make a business pay for the transgressions of its patrons and the push back of a vocal minority in the neighborhood.
  2. SKYMTL
    Sorry, NCG was there LONG before most of the residents parachuted into the area. The rule is always the same: do your research before moving into an area! Its not like the hours of NCG were secretive or the place opened after folks moved in.
  3. SKYMTL
    That picture highlights how absolutely depressing the architecture is around this area. Wow.
  4. SKYMTL
    Time to start the fines. I believe its set at $80K / day for illegal strikes.
  5. SKYMTL
    Its the usual pre-sales to real estate agents. That way they can reserve choice units and then both them and the developer can mark up all units to maximize profit. Its a well known tactic in Toronto and its started here too. This is why people attending the "VIP Sale" for TDC, YUL2, etc. arrived to a limited selection of choice units.
  6. SKYMTL
    The plan should be a complete demolition. Everything from the interior to the exterior is falling apart. Its also a terrible place to host events; hot, stinky, cramped and designed in an era with every different needs than today.
  7. SKYMTL
    I've been to Ginza Six. I'd say it is more akin to what Complexe Les Ailes was trying to accomplish rather than Quinze40.
  8. SKYMTL
    The anchor here is still a shopping mall. For some reason there's this odd belief in these statements that somehow such a center will create NEW opportunities for commerce and employment. That's a complete fallacy. Simply put, the commercial side of this equation (a shopping mall) will simply contribute to lower traffic towards neighboring shopping malls. For example, Place Vertu, Rockland, Smart Centres Decarie, etc. will all be negatively impacted. The employment opportunities will simply shift as well, creating an almost net zero effect upon employment. They aren't creating new DEMAND, they're just building more SPACE.
  9. SKYMTL
    I see absolutely no problem with them building the trains our of country if it saves us millions. Ultimately these aren't fly-by-night operations. Take a look at how VW moved some production to Mexico due to ridiculous union issues and labor problems at some of its other plants. They basically cloned their entire production facility doctrine, trained their employees and use high tech machinery to optimize the entire process. Claiming an Alstom facility in India has any less quality than one in Canada or the EU stinks of dirty local union politiking which preys upon erroneous preconceptions that overseas products have lower quality than domestic. An idiotic reason but I'd expect nothing better from someone with their own job on the line.
  10. SKYMTL
    Not really since Eataly is just as much of an import grocer than it is a food court.
  11. SKYMTL
    So.....its a Movenpick by another name?
  12. SKYMTL
    The term "over budget" prevents us from addressing the real issue here: under estimating from the processes' beginning.
  13. SKYMTL
    Someone needs to start asking some very serious questions about Evenko's near-monopoly on events here in Montreal. There's Formula-E, the destruction of Jean-Drapeau for an Evenko amphitheater and the mess that occurred when they took over the pre-season baseball games just to name a few. If anything we need to ask MORE questions rather than less.
  14. SKYMTL
    Still not done and a thoroughly uninviting space. ?
  15. SKYMTL
    Maybe but I think it all depends on where the tower is placed relative to its base / podium.
  16. SKYMTL
    Unfortunately, not too many buyers of 1000 de la Montagne will realize this building will completely block their outside view of the mountain....
  17. SKYMTL
    An architectural advisory committee without a single architect?
  18. SKYMTL
    We need a full daytime rendering before determining quality of this project IMO. Will the effect be the cheap curtain wall look of TDC2 or something more streamlined?
  19. SKYMTL
    STILL incomplete! That's just unbelievable.
  20. SKYMTL
    Very cool. So we'll get to see what the columns look like. Interesting observation. for a predominantly English neighborhood, it would have been great to have this info up on the REM's English Work Info site: https://rem.info/en/works-info
  21. SKYMTL
    Yesterday there was a lot of heavy machinery (core drilling machines, excavators and pile drivers) setting up in the green space between the Ste Marie exit and Anse a l'Orme along the westbound 40. I wonder if that was for the REM or the future overpass.
  22. SKYMTL
    The contractor cost here in Montreal is substantially less than in TO. That accounts for a large chunk of any project budget.
  23. SKYMTL
    Yay. More bland design. But hey LOOK....they added trees on the roof! /sarcasm.
  24. SKYMTL
    I hope that once the masonry is cleaned those things will blend in because right now they look like a rash.
  25. SKYMTL
    FINALLY! Only a decade late.
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