District Griffin, phase 1 - 18, 20 étages (2014)

[WestAust]

Nouveaux rendus du site de la firme d'architectes (vu originalement sur SSP)

 

 

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Modifié 12 octobre 2011 par WestAust

[Rocco]

Plutôt joli et avant-gardiste. J'aime. Toutefois, j'aime moins les bases d'édifices en briques rouge qui semblent évoquer le passé industriel du site mais qui ne fitte tout simplement pas avec les tours futuristes.

[Montréal Fred Metro]

Bbbbboooonnnn bravo !!!!

[Davidbourque]

Je trouve que les rendu sont trop pastel pour mettre en évidence le clash entre la brique et la tour. Je pense que l'effet en vrai sera vraiment plus réussi.

[SKYMTL]

Not 100% sure about those renderings. When I was at the sales office I didn't see any units with wall to wall windows....

[Davidbourque]

Je pense que cette tour avec les grandes vitres est la tour a bureau.

Modifié 12 octobre 2011 par Davidbourque

[SKYMTL]

I was referring to the residential tower on the left.

[mat]

Having reserved a unit in phase 1 and visualizing the floorplans, I would say the first 2 pics are not accurate (for the residential portion at least). the 3rd one makes a bit of sense. I kept asking if there would be new renders for phase 1 at the sale office but there were no new details (its been the same sketches for over a year now!). Groupe Cholette won't be the promoter for phase 2 and the subsequent phases: Devimco decided to partner with McGill immobilier (its even on mcgillimmobilier.com). I presume groupe Cholette was struggling with selling the units in a quick amount of time, or who knows why... I was informed there would be a new sales office for phase 1 for some demos and the choice of finishes (groupe Cholette) and a new sales office with 3 model units opening in February (McGill). I beleive the current sales office on Peel is for phase 2 as of now. Weird how this project is always encountering bumps on the road; at least construction for phase 1 and the hotel started. Hopefully the finished product will look decent after all that speculation...

[rosey12387]

http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2011/10/25/griffintown-partner-quits/

 

Barely two months ago, the head of Montreal construction giant Groupe Cholette was publicly hailing the “success of the sale” of homes in the first phase of the $736 million Griffintown project.

 

Before the cameras and reporters’ microphones in late August, Michel Cholette expressed his eagerness to go ahead with the “pre-sale of the first round of Phase II.” Not any more

 

This week, the president of the family run construction and project management company acknowledged that Groupe Cholette would be abandoning the Griffintown project after the completion of the first phase. Why the radical change in plans, I asked?

 

“We have enough work on our plate,” Cholette told me in an interview.

 

Hmmmm. That line would be more convincing if it were still summer and the construction season was in full swing. But we’re getting close to winter. Why would the well-respected developer of the Zero One boutique hotel and condos in Montreal and the Cité DIX30 urban complex in Brossard be busier now than in late August?

 

Cholette assures me that the split from District Griffin is not related to any disagreement with developer Devimco Inc. And the Quebec Federation of Labour’s Fonds immobilier de solidarité FTQ is still backing the massive Griffintown project, a spokesperson told me last week.

 

The development of the District Griffin project will go on just fine without them, Cholette says.

 

Cholette is not the first partner to quit the ambitous project to transform the former Montreal industrial area into a residential community with restaurants, shops, a hotel and office space.

 

The French company Groupe Fayolle – a former Devimco partner, and the parent company of a ventilation firm charged with bid-rigging by the federal Competition Bureau - is also no longer involved in the Griffintown project.

 

alampert@montrealgazette.com

[marco]

28 octobre 2011

 

tournée Griffintown