orages lointains

je ne suis pas encore passé devant - les deux bâtisses, elles ont des accès stationnement? sinon, pourquoi ne pas pietoniser la rue pour ce qui est de la tranche avant la courbe/l'entrée hôtelière?

edit: ah, j'aperçois tardivement vos flèches jaunes ... tant pis

One challenge city officials face is how to camouflage the more than 500 wells that dot the site. They serve as monitoring stations for the biogas which is emitted by the buried garbage and the city must find a way to hide them while still allowing them to be accessible to workers for repairs. At the same time, they must prevent vandalism.

The biogas is recovered and used as fuel on site by Gazmont, producing enough electricity for 2,000 homes. The company signed a new deal this year to recuperate the gas for 25 years once renovations are completed in 2016. The electricity is sold to Hydro-Québec, with the city getting 11.4 per cent of total sales per year.

another day in coderre world

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yeah, i've been wondering about that parcel for years, i've asked about it before here too. it's owned by either tony accurso or frank catania, i can't remember which. he tried in 2011 or 2012 to sell it to broccolini for $8 million but broc refused the offer. it's hard to imagine that it'll be built out any time soon but surely the configuration of the avenue tower on the eastern half of the site takes future development there into consideration. it's also possible that broc bought the land off market to protect the roccabella second tower view but probably not.

after watching this video, i'm much more impressed with this project!

8 stories wood construction means 2 stories concrete and 6 in wood - depending on what sort of underground parking they build, this should rise quickly.

i'm so pleased that i could weep! this one is so so important.

yeah, this project has me scratching my head. it's in the worst area in all of central montreal, it's expensive and it's at the end of the cycle. then again, these have that nun's island feel to them that roccabella and even yul can't really touch. and the weirdest thing to me is that, personally, if i were forced at gunpoint to pre-buy a condo around the bell center, i'd take the drummond samcon tower in a heartbeat, but that's the one struggling the most! cabot square/shaughnessy village is on fire, people will buy right next to the damned bell center but these projects on prestige streets (stanley, drummond, peel, mackay) are all struggling. it's very confusing to me.

they're probably just counting the underground levels. so 3 underground levels, r-d-c and 2 floors above.

putting yet another park there is foolish. it should be rebuilt as a plaza with shops and that.

^ yeah. my entire life, these blocks south of sainte cath have had this berlin 1945 look and when i see even this i almost want to weep with joy. it's actually a dream come true.

phyllis lambert is a powerful enemy and also a very rich one. her vigorous opposition could spell trouble for the project, alas. in a way, i agree with her about the donnaconna building - in the original, pre-high rise plan, the stanley side of the donnaconna was opened up to commercial and the grand space was repurposed as is. if they could meet in the middle (preserve 70% of the donnaconna and built out the tower on the stanley side as proposed), it would be a nice compromise i think.

i very much doubt that bumbaru could possibly be deluded enough to believe that david or couillard would ever stop this project. 1) it's the sort of development that governments dream of; 2) it has two of quebec's six billionaires behind it; 3) the mayor and bergeron are fully committed; and 4) the construction unions and business groups downtown want it while the opposition is coming from a group that would never support the government. bumbaru is smart enough not to imagine he'll have success using this as a veto point, but i don't blame him for taking every opportunity to get people thinking about montreal's built heritage.

heureusement, ce projet garde l'appuie du maire et de son équipe, et ferrandez n'a vraiment pas d'options. c'est un très bon maire d'arrondissement ferrandez mais bon, no city in north america would reject this project and it will succeed based on the developer's abilities and the market, not city hall.

this will be something different, a cultural complex like we haven't seen in montreal in a short generation (think of it as an updated, upscale version of the forum, as well as being a rival/complement to the ogilvy project as it was originally proposed and a more vast version of excentris). it sounds like a surefire fail but laliberté has made a career of being a maverick, a creative who creates markets for what he offers and i think this project is very much in line with his vision. i wouldn't bet against him.

there's also the very important fact that if laliberté gets this underway quickly, he can beat a lot of projects to market. and who knows, maybe there's some plan to move at least some of the offices from cirque du soleil down from saint leonard.

very cool. it'll add something special to that area. now if only the angus/yaccarini site would be built, along with the clsc's twin lot on the other side of the cremerie.

que le terrain îlot voyageur appartient déjà à la province doit figurer largement dans la décision à venir, ainsi que l'héritage "uqàm" du site et la volonté parmi les élus de mettre un point final à cette débâcle. la vision marois/lisée pour la consolidation des bureaux des fontionnaires comprennait construire sur l'îlot voyageur sud ainsi que sur le site de yaccarini îlot monument national, l'idée étant d'investir dans la rénovation des deux îlots délabrés mais fort central pour redonner de l'élan au quartiers qds et saint jacques.

it seems to me that if cadillac fairview is successful with the height increase for their project on saint jacques, this is the sort of development that will suffer. already we have the tour deloitte and 900 maisonneuve 100% for sure (along with desjardins' maisonneuve tower), and the near certain onf tower still leasing out several floors of space. then there's the maison alcan project, this two tower project, yaccarini's saint laurent/sainte cath project and the possibility that the government consolidates its revenue offices at the south end of the voyager block. you knock out the two cadillac fairview towers and it's possible that most of these stand a chance. we haven't seen a building war like this in my lifetime!

so we've "sold" two more units in the past two weeks, so we're up to 83/211. with how that works in canada (little developer or fund capitalization, with bank loans predicated on some pretty high sales numbers and escrow commitments), that 40% number for pre-sales doesn't auger well for a september start. forumer greenlobster suggested that sam and saputo would push ahead with their own financing and i really hope they do. again, this is one of those projects where if the developer had decided to build the lot out to 14 stories, it would likely be most of the way to completion by now. they've just misread the market here and now they're in too deep not to hold out for further sales or simply cancel the project - redesign is not on the table. it's a shame, particularly in contrast with how the smart developers have completely restored bishop street just one block over.

observe the taper as it descends to the street level on the stanley street side. depending on glass color and street treatment, this could be one of the great structures of the sherbrooke corridor. thanks for the update.

denpanosekai - wtf are you talking about?? the children's is an iconic structure for every montrealer currently alive and it will eventually be repurposed for housing, and the forum as a parking structure is just nuts, and exactly the way it's going now is how it should be - commercial. baseball??? like wtf?? aside from the mayor and this forum, nobody believes baseball will ever return to montreal. even thinking about urban development with baseball as an option is a walk in fantasy land. why not just build the tallest building in the world on the forum site? jesus. people on this forum get so delusional sometimes.

that building on sherbrooke, the old holiday inn, will easily sell. it's in super prime location and was substantially renovated back in 2006-2008. should be a short turnaround. given its recent renovation for student residence, mcgill might be tempted to pick that one up too, depending on the price (it's next to their newest residence hall, "the citadel"). then again, if evo keeps one of their montreal properties, it'd be that one.

^ agreed. i care 100x more about the streetscape than i do about the view of the skyline. bring us a consistent streetscape without surface lots and abandoned buildings and i'll be happy. plus, very tall buildings do horrible things to the street, with curb cuts for loading and ventilation walls and parking ingresses. no thanks.

sure, but actually if the city does have parking minimums there, it makes sense that they're detached from apartments and that they can be sold to others in the neighborhood.

denpanosekai - that's obviously deco, though fairly unremarkable. i'm disappointed that they're including automobile parking spaces in this one considering its location pretty much right on top of berri-uqam metro. the architecture is super generic too, but it could have been worse and overall it's looking okay. i'd prefer 10-12 stories to get at something like a dialogue with the dupuis building, but i guess it's something.

d'accord, mais là on parle d'une opportunité ratée de réintroduire un peu de hauteur et de densité sur le plateau. quand meme, pourquoi ne pas leur laisser bâtir jusqu'à 8 étages de hauteur sur ce coin de rue là? à part une idée fixe d'un plateau-mont royal à trois étages, il n'y a pas de bonne raison, bon sang. selon moi, on devrait densifier sur le plateau avec des immeubles de 6-8 étages au moins le long des artères commerciales, d'abord afin d'aider un peu les commercants et de maintenir - face à une competition croissante (des quartiers griffintown, saint henri, vieux montreal et shaughnessy village parmi d'autres) pour les dépenses dits "loisir" - les avantages qui nous ont accrus durant ces années où le centre-ville n'allait pas du tout bon train. deuxième, plus nous avons d'unités tout neufs sur le marché du plateau, moins nous ne voyons des hausses de valeurs et donc la retraite et vente des unités de location. bref, il faut changer un peu le caractère physique du plateau pour saufgarder son caractère essentiel.