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^ et ce n'est que quartre mètres

^ because they don't have the funds. A pre-sale contract is paid in installments as the building hits milestones. The more cash you have in hand, the better your loan terms and the less you are forced to charge for flats to get a profit. Waiting until contracts are completed or mostly completed lets them ask less of the bank and get better loan terms.

oh man, looks so great...

are those vertical screens for shading or a design feature (for instance, with climbing vines to be introduced)?

^ if you live more than once, maybe.

acpnc - c'est clair qu'une succursale HEC en centre-ville ne ferait que du bien.

^ j'ai obtenu mon diplôme de mcgill et je suis, de langue et d'histoire, anglophone quebecois. néanmoins, j'ai pris quelques cours non-disponibles à mcgill à l'UQAM. par exemple, l'excellent "histoire de montreal" avec paul-andré linteau, moitié du duo légendaire de l'histoire de cette ville, avec jean-françois marsan. franchement, je n'ai pas vu de grande difference entre la qualité d'enseignement entre les deux. edit: the real difference, as most montrealers know, is that mcgill has a selective and involved atmosphere, whereas UQAM is a large open admission public university. difference in quality of teaching is small, difference in quality of students may be quite large.

the government will be paying billions for this infrastructure, and any partner investing that much should expect to have a say. integrating the system with the metro is vitally important - it'll make both systems more valuable. the government should delay the northern branch until we get the right project.

during almost all of my life (aside from maybe a small part in the 1980s when i was a young child), very little was built in montreal. when these 10 projects were announced, it was almost unbelievable. and every one of them has been built or is currently under construction. considering how skeptical some were at the time, that far more than these is in the works is mind-bending.

quite the opposite of my thinking back in 2012, i now believe that the tour des canadiens will age much better than the glass towers around it (especially ICONE, which was my favorite when first announced and that now i really think looks unattractively 1990s).

anyone who denies that montreal is doing well right now, remember how skeptical many were when these projects were announced all at once. did they end up getting built? 1. Îlot Overdale: Prévu sur le plus important terrain vacant du boulevard René-Lévesque Ouest, équivalent à deux fois la superficie d'un terrain de soccer, ce projet mixte propose l'intégration d'un complexe à la fois commercial et résidentiel de 120 mètres de hauteur et prévoit, entre autres, la restauration et la réhabilitation de la maison Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine et de son jardin. yes! amazingly, the commercial aspect of the project ended up being an hotel, but i'm still amazed that this project moved forward, considering the history of the site. i hope that the final phase will be redesigned a little so that we have three different towers 2. Maison Ogilvy : Unique et novateur, ce projet propose la transformation de tout le quadrilatère situé entre les rues Crescent, Sainte-Catherine, de la Montagne et le boulevard De Maisonneuve. Il s'agit ici de l'agrandissement du magasin Ogilvy de même que de la construction d'un complexe hôtelier et résidentiel de 120 chambres et 110 logements. yes! and wisely, this project was scaled back to exclude the demolition of so much of crescent street. 3. Rue Drummond : Remplacement d'un stationnement de surface de 200 places, constitué de deux nouvelles tours : une première de 23 étages (80 m) et 173 logements, et une deuxième de 21 étages (74 m) et 154 logements. En plus d'un espace commercial sur trois étages pour chacune des tours, ce projet propose 3 600 m2 de bureaux. yes! the second phase probably won't be built for another decade, but the first phase in underway. 4. Le Roccabella : 516 nouvelles unités au 1300, boulevard René-Lévesque Ouest, ce projet prévoit deux tours jumelles résidentielles de 35 étages (120 m) et deux étages commerciaux au rez-de-chaussée. yes! second phase to begin construction this fall! 5. Tour Windsor : 28 étages propose 48 000 m2 de superficie de bureaux yes! and the plaza is better than expected 6. Le Peterson : 34 étages comptant 280 nouvelles unités d'habitation yes! and it looks great, far better than many (including myself) expected. 7. Le Saint-Dominique : transformation et l'agrandissement de l'ancienne Brasserie Ekers pour aménager 50 nouveaux condominiums ainsi que 2 locaux commerciaux. yes! and a neighbor may soon join it 8. Tour du Musée : 1400, rue Sherbrooke Ouest, la conversion d'un édifice à bureaux en un bâtiment résidentiel de 12 étages offrant 40 nouveaux condominiums yes! though it looks fucking ridiculous 9. Flex : 1211-1261 rue Bishop, 196 unités d'habitation et 10 nouveaux commerces yes! 10. 1220-1228, rue Crescent, 8 étages totalisant 77 nouveaux condominiums yes! and there have been so many more beyond these. i hope that this pace of construction continues indefinitely, this must have been how it felt in montreal in the 1960s-1970s.

^ yeah, that's horrible, exactly what people were worried divimco would do (along with the macdonalds, winners and other dix30 businesses here). this is a very shitty vision of griffintown compared with brickfields or yoo.

man, if i were at the federal or the provincial level, the entire northern half of the project would wait until we had the funding for the edouard montpetit and mcgill stations.

oh! preferred hotel group is from chicago, and i believe the rumored hotel group for the was from quebec. maybe for the viger site across the street (i think it's STQ)? maybe i'm just totally wrong?

^ yeah, the metro is just terrible. /s but the real issue here is that there's no issuing for any work at edouard-montpetit or mcgill. why not just wait until they have done the technical research? because they're not intending to build? because EVERYONE knows that they'll never interrupt service to build once it's in operation, and that costs will escalate beyond anything we could afford if these stations aren't built with the rest of the tunnel improvements.

^ yeah, getting around this process will save many millions of dollars, which maybe could be thrown at the edouard montpetit and mcgill stations.

no way, this is great - people can decide to pay or not to pay. more buildings at a higher density is better for the city, better for the people who live there (higher security, more businesses, etc). if people don't want to live in this building, the developer will not be able to sell the units. requiring these absurd podium/point towers like vancouver is unnecessary intervention into the market.

from the peterson thread:

this is crazy. without those stations, this is a project giving suburbans more convenient access to montreal, with a convenient airport access for montrealers but a far worse swell of people coming onto the metro out of bonaventure. it will make the metro worse and give us nothing. it makes a huge difference for the project. i'm happy to see suburbans have better access to montreal, but it's not even close to optimal.

this is encouraging news. once built, it's difficult to imagine them suspending operation for construction. it could be now or never for these stations.

good questions. could you also ask (as i did just now) about the edouard montpetit and mcgill stations: 1. how far along are their studies on these two stations? 2. what is the current sense of how much more will this add to the cost of the project and what is the potential funding source? 3. did they submit proposals to the federal and quebec that include funding for the mcgill and edouard montpetit stations? ie. is the 5.5 billion number estimated including these? if not, was a parallel proposal submitted that did include these? 4. if they are still conducting surveys, what is the current sense of phasing for these two stations? also: 5. who will cover cost overruns and how will they be covered? since the project is being phased, will overruns mean delays? what is the mechanism here? 6. is it true that the caisse will be using tax increment financing for this? if so, how? will quebec be introducing legislation?

selon le journal métro, on est douteux à l'égard des stations édouard-montpetit et mcgill. on voit clairement qu'elles ne sont pas incluses dans les 5.5 milliards, que la facture s'élèvera pas mal pour l'inclusion des deux, et qu'elles ne seront aucunement prêtes pour l'ouverture prévu du reseau en 2020. 500 million de plus? 600 millions? si les cadres de justin trudean prennent six mois pour décider, pourrait-on espérer que la caisse leur a présenté une variation qu'inclut ces deux? etk, l'extrait du journal: Les connexions avec le réseau de trains de banlieue, notamment la ligne Repentigny-Mascouche, sont confirmées, tandis que les stations Edouard-Montpetit et McGill, qui feraient la liaison avec le métro, demeurent incertaines en raison de difficultés techniques. «La station Edouard-Montpetit est taillée dans la roche par exemple, mais il y a une volonté de le faire», a expliqué le directeur relations médias de CDPQ Infra, Jean-Vincent Lacroix. http://journalmetro.com/local/saint-laurent/actualites/973117/le-public-decouvre-le-reseau-electrique-metropolitain/

so it's two phases? phase one, ventilation structure, and phase two, building? do we know if there's a developer currently attached to the project?

les stations du canada line sont minuscule et les passagers voient déjà la folie du design que propose pour mtl la caisse. http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2014/08/short-platforms-trains-skytrain-canada-line-built-nearing-capacity/

wow, that's grim.