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  1. orages lointains
    if that bleury building ever gets built, that view will be almost unparalleled for density city-wide. the only possible comparable areas might be in the concordia ghetto and maybe, if including more blocks, the bell center towers. i wish that more of these smaller streets had survived the superblock era of montreal. imagine the area between saint denis and mcgill college as a warren of narrow streets with high densities like it was, developments like this on concorde, gauchetiere and mayor streets show us just how interesting it might have been.
  2. orages lointains
    wow, more evidence that it'll be going ahead right away as a residential rental building, pretty neat.
  3. orages lointains
    hah! perfectly in line with coderre's famous subtlety and good taste.
  4. orages lointains
    looks so gloomy
  5. orages lointains
    wow you're at work early! how many more floors still to build?
  6. orages lointains
    the original plan was to take down the entire building and rebuild something else. i really hope that doesn't happen, this has 'decade+ empty lot' written all over it. a nice reno here would do an enormous amount of good.
  7. orages lointains
    ^ this is a very good question and certainly plays a very important role in the rents. hands on commercial condominium owners would tend to be chains or mid-sized investors, so the best guess is that these spaces on bishop are still in the belcourt stable or held by the home owners' association - in either of these cases, it will be professionally managed/brokered. this distinction may make a considerable difference, but it's difficult to gauge from the outside.
  8. orages lointains
    great snap. the piling perimeter shows that it's likely they're building the lowrise center building as well during this first phase, which is good news if only because it means that much less of the lot will be occupied by a surface parking lot.
  9. orages lointains
    the real issue here is that they're probably asking too much, in terms of rents. virtually every other space on bishop, crescent, mckay is occupied other than these new ones here. seems to me that it's not a generalized trend at all but, rather, a question of a landowner over-valuing his property, like on saint laurent.
  10. orages lointains
    i think more than anything, this latest building surge has forever altered this feeling that our best days were behind us. i know montreal (well, pre-amalgamation montreal) so intimately that i could probably find my way blind through virtually any street in the central city, and there are some lots, like this, that i thought would never never change. to see montreal as a dynamic, progressive city again, it does a lot for me. my niece has just started her first year at mcgill, a school that my family has been attending for over a hundred years, and it's amazing for me to see her comprehend her experience of the city. so much of my and my brother's experience was just this sense that we were living in what was left for us by past generations, but for her so much is growing up around her. i'm envious and strangely, finally, proud.
  11. orages lointains
    nice work, newbie. the city/plateau needs more like you, doing your part.
  12. orages lointains
    ^ hihihi. moi j'ai voté contre le patinoire il y a trois ans quand on circulait le sondage mais, bon, vaut mieux un patinoire qu'un gros stationnement. moi je préfèrais un marché du style jean-talon/atwater/saint jacques.
  13. orages lointains
    oh wow! seems like a pretty good bet that's rigged up to take the weight off the load-bearing wall on the maisonneuve side during the renovation. retail along that stretch would go a very long way toward stitching crescent and bishop together.
  14. orages lointains
    will they be cutting windows on the maisonneuve side? will it be a retail wall like across the way? would be nice to finally have that corner fixed, so many decades after they extended maisonneuve through.
  15. orages lointains
    still on candarel's website: http://canderel.com/current-projects/1215-phillips-square
  16. orages lointains
    great angle, great shot. in the end, peterson will be a pretty impressive addition to the montreal skyline. out of all the highrise buildings this cycle so far under construction, only this one really stands out for its audacity (and also, the ogilvy and onf towers, though those are quite a bit shorter). qds is turning into the architectural center of montreal, a "showcase" area that very few cities possess.
  17. orages lointains
    we must wait. the lower portion of the building is still to be clad, and that will change the overall effect quite a bit. no question it was value engineered, but still, it's not yet complete.
  18. orages lointains
    100% hotel then? my amazement still stands.
  19. orages lointains
    man, je trouve quasi-impossible la proposition que moi je serais seul a être étonné qu'il y a quoi que ce soit qui se passe ici, sur ce site. le fait qu'un promoteur ait décidé d'aller de l'avant avec un tel projet sans même passer aux préventes, bon, ça fait chaud au cœur. vraisemblablement, nous vivons un moment rare dans l'historique récent de montréal, really really great.
  20. orages lointains
    yeah, looks great from that angle, holy smoke. such an amazing view.
  21. orages lointains
    looks great! i wish every montreal street looked so wonderful. that little building at the end of the cul-de-sac would be neatly repurposed into some sort of summertime cafe/bar/event space with outdoor activities.
  22. orages lointains
    wow, six mois veut dire qu'il n'y aura aucun stationnement, à moins qu'ils seront au niveau rez de chaussée. fabrication en bois aussi, probably.
  23. orages lointains
    this is right. if i had to guess, i'd say that rad-can moves (maybe to the QDS!) and that the trudeau government uses this massive site, tower and all, to build affordable housing. if they really do move back into housing as so many observers expect, the site is ideal: the government owns the land and development plans already, and there will be zero complaints about building affordable housing in that wasteland.
  24. orages lointains
    if radio canada is really moving to the centre-ville, i can't imagine they'd be allowed to pay top dollar like the spectrum tower, unless melanie joly really wants it. bonaventure place seems much more likely in that sense. and IF rad-can decides to move downtown and into the QDS (a great idea!), doesn't the angus tower (cafe cleopatra) make more sense in order to make the symbolic gesture toward the east side? not to mention that the city surely sees that as a top priority for development of any tower project. in the end, this has to be the very best time to move - imagine the good prices that a stable (we hope) client like rad-can could get right now with 3-4 shovel-ready office projects (spectrum, angus, onf, AND lucien-l'allier, with a possibly of the lemay viger street project near the palais des congrès). hope this happens.
  25. orages lointains
    1) this will serve quebec people who have paid taxes and need a place to retire, like every other person in the province; 2) this building will be controlled by the government, like almost every other retirement home. basically, the way it works in quebec is that the government gives money to organizations to run retirement homes for the citizens of quebec. sometimes these organizations are catholic charities, sometimes they're some random non-profit, in this case it's b'nai brith. in this case, however, instead of the government planning and building, then finding an operator, the operator will plan and build, with government support. it even saves the government some money they'd have had to pay. and in case people think this is about religion, remember that 95% of jews in montreal very secular/atheist, it's not like this is haredi from outremont who avoid taxes then take advantage.
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