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fuck that's short. should be another 3-4 stories, goddamned plateau. then again, it's probably the nicest 3.5 story residential building going up anywhere in the city.

also: malek, that's an amazing photo, just grand.

did i miss something? that concordia building (which i actually rather like) is the least of our problems. we still have so many surface parking lots to build out in the vicinity that even thinking about tearing down a functional 4 story building is crazy. finally, for the first time in my lifetime and likely for 50-60 years since when rene-levesque boulevard was called dorchester boulevard and ran only 4 lanes, that one block of bishop street is completely intact, without a single surface parking lot. however, on mackay and crescent streets, we still have vast empty lots. on mountain and drummond, empty lots. in all directions, empty lots. walking around there, it's better because of the five projects (the three bishop street projects, the crescent street one, and the mackay one), that old "sarajevo war zone" feeling is diminished, but we've a long way to go.

right. bad news for drummond street in the short term (because that lot will almost certainly sit empty there for years) but perhaps good news in the long term if the building is redesigned in 5+ years. twin towers are just no good.

Notez dans le projet Drummond , Sam a des partenaires donc Free 2 Be Holdings , qui appartient a Joey Saputo . Une fois qu'il seront a 50% vendu ca vais partir , ne soyez pas enquête .

this is a very important note. if a september construction start is suggested in the la presse+ article, that date could only be coming from the highest level of communication staff, possibly the developer himself.

so it could be that they're on track here, they were definitely not too far off a couple months ago. looks like they now have 81 units sold or reserved, but almost none of those are above the 16th floor. you knock this back to the heights of the very recent bishop street buildings (10-11 floors) and they'd likely already have sold out both towers. what happened? samcon misread the market and thought that this drummond street location was a "luxury" location on the order of what we're seeing (to me somewhat inexplicably) around the bell center. i don't really know how flexible montreal is on resubmitted designs so late in the process, nor what sort of agreements samcon has with its buyers in terms of delivery dates, but it could be that their best bet is just to build to 14 floors, rather than continue losing clients to towers in progress along with idle stock that'll continue coming online, or worse, returning those dozens of deposits and sitting on this land until the next cycle, which may not come for years. building one 14 and one 12 story tower on that site could be pretty much all they can get out of it, just based on the psychology of the street and where montrealers feel it fits in the city fabric and real estate valuations.

a second point/question: assuming a september construction start, do we know if samcon intends to build the entire podium for both towers during the first construction phase, as roccabella and icone have?

according to their sales website, we're back to this rendering, which suggests they've shrunk unit size again:

also, according to the samcom site, they're up to 80 units sold.

http://aapq.org/laureats/projets/reamenagement-et-mise-en-valeur-du-square-dorchester-et-de-la-place-du-canada-0

should be happening this year! a huge improvement.

i think i have that typical montreal mentality where any building proposed on what's been a parking lot for 70 years or more looks good to me.

epic photos. thanks

do we have anything like a construction start date?

yeah, that's very very weird, the comment is identical to mine on the saint andré thread. in fact, it looks like the person joined mtlurb specifically to copy my comment from that other thread to this one. (not that i disagree with the comment, per se.) highly strange. by the way, i've been on the board for years, before this account i was flight_from_kamakura (forgot the password and email address i used so after a few months i just started a new account) and before that i was something else, i think maybe hassle_me or love_on_the_run.

anyway, i stand by my remark because a) it's not racist - actual italians from italy wouldn't ever design garbage like this, and there's nothing in the comment that suggests that shit design is something essential to the italian race, which isn't a race at all, but a nationality and in quebec an ethno-cultural group that has lost much of its salience over the past 30-40 years; and b) montreal north shit architecture is horrible and seeing it on the plateau almost certainly means that we can guess at who is funding and building it because almost noone else builds like that. there's a look that the gang up there seems to like and everyone knows it. you want another great example, how about the roy/coloniale disaster that took out the waldman's lots.

i'm not sure why you'd care about such a comment when we all know exactly what i mean and there's no ill-will to the great italian cultural group in it, just a nod to the shitty northern suburbs where a lot of these folks live and the garbage suburban mafiosi architecture. in quebec, we're not hung up on the stupid political correctness nonsense that people in canada get stuck on. people call me english and i don't care, even though i've only ever visited england as a tourist.

nice series of small projects updates, btw

correct address?

damn, that's a depressing little change. looks like some italian from montreal north got his hands on it

vont ils bâtir le basilaire au complet dès le début? comme, par exemple, on a vu chez l'icône et la roccabella?

bon, d'accord, mais si on suit de près ce qui se passe à toronto et le renouvel des habitations là-bas, on voit bien comment on pourrait aller de l'avant à montréal sans mettre du monde dehors.

celle qui ressemble le plus aux habitations jeanne mance:

http://urbantoronto.ca/database/projects/alexandra-park-revitalization

la plus grande au canada:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regent_Park_Revitalization_Plan