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Ainsi, en général on s'en fiche d'un mur aveugle du coté ruelle à cet endroit?

Double story ceiling is a nice touch, wouldn't mind hanging out there. Overall, a great addition to Saint Cath, so far, proof will be in the finishings.

^ Yeah, very cool use of pre-fab.

This is probably the most important outstanding development site in the city. Very good to see it finally in the mix. I know it's unrealistic, but I really hope the parking ingress on Mountain street is single car only and there's a car elevator, to minimize the effect on the street.

This is the exact same thing that happened to the Dorchester Apartments at the Hôtel Maritime. What began as my favorite project on the boards was value engineered into satisfactory filler, and we're seeing it again.

Probably the one good thing that can be said about this building (apart from its use) is that it will cover up that ugly Caron Building wall. At the expense of some views of the Peterson, but still worth it - a huge improvement. The really amazing thing about this stretch of Bleury is that there are currently 6 projects ongoing/planned in just the short stretch between Sherbrooke and R-L. In under 15 years it will have undergone a transformation with no fewer that 12 new large scale projects. Just incredible. This is probably the final and true genius of the QdS plan. Next up: Saint-Laurent/Clark!

Should be 2 stories taller, at least. But it's nice to see that parking lot go.

La quasi-totalité des experts nous raconte que le marché pour les condos post-pandémie n'éxiste plus, que tout le monde veut des maisons unifamiliale dans la banlieue, etc. C'est vrai que ce marché-là va bon train, mais tellement il y a de groundbreakings de nouveaux projets condos à Montréal, qu'il est très clair que ce narratif ne capte aucunement ce qui se passe en ce moment.

An important consideration is that the vaccination effort is already slowing down in America, so that many more will be available starting very soon. Current projections don't yet take that into account. Incidentally, I received my second dose of the Pfizer vaccine a few weeks ago (I spent the winter in America and I'm still here). There's a very significant psychological boost that comes with covid immunity. In both of the two cities I've been recently (New Orleans and San Francisco), the difference between the landscape over the past two weeks, and that even just a few months ago - it's huge! New Orleans is basically fully open. Anyone can walk in and get a vaccine without any wait, and basically everyone who wants one can get one. All restaurants and bars are open, people are hanging out in the streets, it's great! San Francisco is opening a little more slowly (even though it's farther along in vaccinations) but is completely different city now than it was even just a couple months ago. I estimate that it's maybe a month away from fully reopening. Montreal is going to storm back to life once people are vaccinated.

Broc cementing his status as a Montreal legend. It's a challenging site, so we should expect a very posh building (to recover the high construction costs). Amazing news.

They're driving piles? Excavation is actually going ahead? I'm very surprised!

^ Looking great, though I wish they had kept the initial unpainted plan, with the brutalist-ish look to it.

5-7 stories taller, eliminate the setback on Bleury Street, and improve the materials. Otherwise: great, built it!

Not great architecture, but great density, exactly what's needed!

^ I'm not so sure it's condos as a class that are losing favor. What I've read suggests that interest in small condos is dropping more than anything, and that interest in larger ones is steady.

Far far too low rise.

With so many crappy pre-fab towers, I like that we're now entering a "glam" phase of towers in Montreal. This tower, Maestria, Broc's new tower down on Saint Jacques, Humanité, and a few smaller ones proposed. It's a shame we didn't get the Laliberté's Alcan tower.

Style architectural entre Toronto et l'Union Soviétique.

The population in this area has been creeping up little by little, with a few hundred units coming online each year for the past 10 years. Pretty neat.

Do we have sales numbers on these?

This looks to be a wonderful design, and an excellent project. This developer, Groupe Jesta, is a very legitimate player, and has a great pedigree in top quality hospitality properties. On the question of beauty, I'd add too that the streetscape in Montreal is atrocious. Our three 'ceremonial' streets - Sherbrooke, Sainte Catherine, and Rene-Levesque - look like they belong in Beruit or Aleppo. No trees, narrow and bombed out sidewalks of the least aesthetic concrete, lighting fixtures like off a military base, just no care or charm. A black eye for Montreal that, somehow, very few Montrealers seem to notice. Very obvious to all outsiders, however.

I've been waiting my whole life for this ugly plot to be built out. Only 65 meters, the same height at the Ogilvy/Four Seasons hotel building? Great! Just do it right.

Wow, the Saint Laurent side facade really is very unimpressive.

Developer realized that it was too expensive to continue with the preserved facade part of the plan as proposed, decided on the classic Montreal solution of arson in order to expedite approval of a design change.

Entrecôte Saint-Jean is maybe my favorite "comfort food" restaurant in all of Montreal and if it disappears I'll be very very sad.