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4 hours ago, Gabmtl said:

Official launch, parle-t'on des deux tours qui constituent la phase 1 du projet ou d'une seule d'entre elle?

Not sure it doesn't specify but it's when you click on EST,.Question is EST just the eastern tower or is Est phase 1 consisting of the two towers.(Someone on MTLURB must know?) (https://estwestcondos.ca). As for Elmo514's point, must be from pre-sales by Devimco vip's lol 

Official launch October 14th. 

People like Powercorp, and the caisse de depot deal with huge amounts of money. I don't think this is a public bank ranking. 

 please be something cool 

Wow same people as the Kingdom Tower(To be the tallest building in the world at ~1km). Do they have any completed projects though lol

48 minutes ago, Elpi12 said:

Seulement si l'administration municipale fait une demande formelle...

 

Aussi, voici les préférences d'Amazon pour le lieu idéal.

 

 

The west island, just west of fairview would be ideal, fits all their criteria plus they could be right beside an REM station, plus the bus terminus at fairview. 

8 minutes ago, rufus96 said:

The reasons why Toronto surpassed Montreal in size and global importance are well-documented, including on this forum. 

Toronto didn't surpass Montreal because it was/is willing to build taller skyscrapers.

Been walking around downtown Toronto lately? The place is a mess. I am currently working in Toronto (did not move for political/economic reasons) and can personally attest to situation on the ground, especially in the Southcore. Numerous 200+ meter skyscrapers with absolutely zero ground level interaction. Suburbs in the sky. Wind tunnels. Buildings that are a copy/paste function of one another.

I am an architect and an urbanist and a skyscraper enthusiast, but height for the sake of height (read profit) is ruining Toronto. While I would be happy to see taller skyscrapers in Montreal, I value a more methodical approach to development. 

Let Toronto play the short game and continue to stress its already overburdened system in its goal for global recognition. It may lead to its downfall.

From every time I visit Toronto for business or friends I find the same things. However having a few nice tall towers or clusters in between good street density and urban planing can be really nice for both pictures and life. 

13 minutes ago, swansongtoo said:

Found this series today that looks at different areas of architecture (Big City Icons, City Squares, Parks and Gardens etc.) and has one episode dedicated to stadiums and arenas which includes a portion on Montreal's Olympic Stadium.  Season 1, Ep. 5, 11:50 in.  Haven't seen any other episode but figured some of you here may enjoy the show.    

 

Yeah I saw that as well, was going to post it here but you beat me to it. I also watched the parks one and unfortunately mount royal wasn't on the list(same designer as central park) which was #1 on the list.

27 minutes ago, ScarletCoral said:

Usually they start when they reach 50% of sold units. As with the other projects in the area, it could go fast.

If I'm not mistaken they are well above that for phase 1, they sold over 50% on pre-sales I think. According to buzzbuzzhome 156 of 188 are sold.

1 hour ago, ScarletCoral said:

Les plans et prix de la phase 2 sont sortis
http://www.prevel.ca/sites/default/files/UP_BrochureWeb_Phase2_0.pdf

Does Anyone know when construction will start? If they're on to phase 2 it's because they are selling units.

Just now, Djentmaster001 said:

I bet if the city sold La Ronde to Cedar Fair, the park would have better rides, operations, cleanliness and would attract more tourists. Also, they have better prices! I visited Canada's Wonderland for cheaper and that park is top notch. 

If I'm not mistaken LaRonde is owned by Six flags, not really up to the city how it's run. 

7 minutes ago, _mtler_ said:

007 - wrong plant. The one that closed was on Viau near Sherbrooke. This one is alive and well.

They even have (had the other day anyway) a sign up "nous embauchons". 

These rankings for "best cities to live" should be using criteria whereas to create a "best cities to live no matter who you are"... i.e actual best cities to live in, the way it's structured is honestly quite ridiculous and misleading. You would think something like this would be to help someone decide where to go to start a new and to grow and to have a family whereas to not have to displace again. Whatever, we all know Montreal is the best   haha

Wow it's actually much nicer than I anticipated. That's Fantastic 

True, but even with the Le square Childrens , the renderings for the first phase changed from the projects first renderings a few months back, not by a huge amount but enough to go from an MTLURB "please don't" to "ummm that's ok I guess" lol. 

Sure, but no one said this was the final design. It can easily be drastically different

Let's be optimistic, Broccolini themselves have not unveiled their plans, it is possible they are still going to change it before it's launched in the fall/end of summer. Who knows it could even be good looking by that point haha

12 minutes ago, _mtler_ said:

Imagine dropping 1.85M on a townhouse which has a massive parking door entrance beside it? Loco.

Yeah but then you get into your private elevator and take it up 4 floors to your bedroom in said house lol

To me this looks like one of the new ones that have gone up in Ottawa in recent years, there are 3 or 4 like this including right in front of city hall. They're really unfortunate looking in person. 

11 hours ago, andre md said:

Bad point for Montreal money beggar at every corner. 

I saw more money beggar in Montreal than in Madrid or Athens, two cities which suffer terrible economic crisis.

 

 

 

Well if you look at it in a different way it isn't so bad. A beggar can survive in Montreal because the cost of living is so low, I'm sure most have somewhere to live(the people asking for money aren't usually the ones sleeping on a park bench, at least from my experience) it is almost physically impossible for someone like that to survive in a high cost city. Also Montrealers are more kind than Montrealers make them out to be. Maybe if we were as mean as we say beggars wouldn't even try to ask for money and they would just hide away out of sight. I don't know but there are always positives and negatives with every situation we just have to juggle between to get the best overall result for the citizens of this great city.  

13 minutes ago, jesseps said:

If they can manage to get a grocery store in one of the buildings, it be a great location. Easy access on and off the highway and really close to the train.

Maybe they can get the city to fork over some cash, so they can put in a walkway from the north side of the highway to the southside. So they can access the water.

There is a walkway actually. I know it had been closed at some point but I think it is open again. It's essentially 50ft from where the grocery store would be.

Finally a full rendering. I've been driving by for months wondering what it was actually gong to look like. Not pretty but much much better than the abandoned mall that had been there. 

Well two floors up already.

On 5/29/2017 at 8:57 AM, SkahHigh said:

Ce matin, j'ai remarqué qu'il y avait des tests de sol en cours sur le terrain adjacent au siège social de SNC-Lavalin. Les tests étaient effectués par la compagnie Forage Downing. Signe d'un projet futur à venir sur ce site?

Huge development where they build a tower over 200m, half for Snc and half for great west to move to Montreal? Haha wouldn't that be nice lol

18 minutes ago, ToxiK said:

C'est bizarre...  Quand quelque-chose va bien au Québec, c'est l'Effet Libéral, quand quelque-chose va mal, c'est le PQ, la loi 101, etc.  Les libéraux n'ont rien fait pour conserver le siège social d'Amaya au Québec.  Et j'ajouterai avec raison.  Je n'aime pas perdre un siège social, mais j'ai l'impression qu'Amaya quitte parce qu'elle n'aime pas être sous enquête de l'AMF.  Je suis pas mal certain qu'en Ontario, ils seront tranquille à ce sujet...  On sait tous qu'il n'y a pas de corruption en Ontario...  C'est un problème exclusivement québécois...

J'ajouterai à mon commentaire que c'est une bonne chose que nous n'ayons pas (encore) une commission fédérale des valeurs mobilière !  Sinon, il y aurait des provinces qui seraient plus enquêtées que d'autres...  Ça pourrait influencer des entreprises à choisir plus "judicieusement" la ville où sera leur siège social.  Ce n'est que mon opinion.

This forum is a prime example of how both of those affects are true at the same time. Some will always feel like loi 101 PQ ruined things and they will always do something to justify that, unfortunately I know plenty of people who think there aren't welcome and there are no opportunities here and that going to Ontario is just the solution. At the same time, there are many people like myself who look deeper, who feel a connection with our province and especially our city that when someone like the PLQ are making anglo's and others at least feel more welcome it is extremely positive and good things happen and it gets pointed out. So you have companies just like people who will find anything to move or not need to be here, and you will find companies who will find anything to stay because they love it here. Though I very much agree with your second point, Ontario doesn't seem to care about looking into corruption because evidently there is none there