ville-marie Marriott Courtyard Montréal Centre-ville - 40 étages (2014)

[MTLskyline]

J'ai demandé des infos au préposé aux stationnements aujourd'hui et il n'était pas au courant !!! D'accord, je sais, ce n'est pas la personne clé à qui demandé ce genre de chose mais j'ai quand meme essayé d'aller chercher un peu plus d'info.

 

Par contre, à ma connaissance, il y a 3 Marriott à Montréal. Celui de l'aéroport, celui sur la rue Sherbrooke Ouest et le Chateau Champlain/Marriott. Ça fait déjà beaucoup, non ?

 

Le Marriott Courtyard de Sherbrooke Ouest sera converti en résidences étudiantes de l'Université McGill.

[WestAust]

Seul le Chateau Champlain et celui de l'aéroport sont des Marriott (seul), ils ont plusieurs catégories d'hotels Marriott(chaine principale) Courtyard (lower cost) Residence Inn (souvent avec cuisinette) JWMarriott(chaine luxe)

 

Les autres sont leurs autres divisions, dont celui mentionné ici, un Courtyard, comme celui qu'il y avait sur Sherbrooke et qui est fermé.

[Habsfan]

j'avoue que c'est bien de finalement voir le cap des 40 étages atteint pour la première fois en 18 ans!!!

 

J'ai vraiment hâte de voir cette tour monter. Si jamais elle se confirme, je crois que ce serait le temps de planifier une réunion "smoked meet" bientôt!!!

[monctezuma]

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Je suis passé devant le Mariott sur Sherbrooke mercredi dernier et il semble totalement fermé. Le nom de la banière n'est plus sur le bâtiment et les vitres et la porte d'entrée sont placardés. Il y a un avis collé dans la vitre, mais je ne suis pas allé le lire.

 

J'ai demandé des infos au préposé aux stationnements aujourd'hui et il n'était pas au courant !!! D'accord, je sais, ce n'est pas la personne clé à qui demandé ce genre de chose mais j'ai quand meme essayé d'aller chercher un peu plus d'info.

 

Par contre, à ma connaissance, il y a 3 Marriott à Montréal. Celui de l'aéroport, celui sur la rue Sherbrooke Ouest et le Chateau Champlain/Marriott. Ça fait déjà beaucoup, non ?

 

Le Marriott Courtyard de Sherbrooke Ouest sera converti en résidences étudiantes de l'Université McGill.

[monctezuma]

Le Marriott Courtyard de Sherbrooke Ouest sera converti en résidences étudiantes de l'Université McGill.

 

Quand on sait que McGill vient tout juste d'acheter l'hôtel en face !! Le Quartier des hôtels est en voie de disparition pour devenir le McGill Student Housing District. Alors que le Quartier des hôtels de consolidait avec le Hilton garden inn, il disparaît maintenant.

[MTLskyline]

Voilà la nouvelle sur l'achat de l'ancien hôtel Marriott sur Sherbrooke pour les intéressés:

 

Admin scoops up Marriott for new, new, New Rez

Third hotel in seven years costs McGill over 10 million dollars

 

By Adam Winer

Published: Sep 1

 

This past spring, McGill purchased the Courtyard Marriott hotel, with plans to make it the university’s newest student residence.

 

The building is located at 410 Sherbrooke West, just east of campus. When it opens in the fall of 2011, it will house roughly 270 McGill students. The hotel was bought for a reported 12.3 million dollars, which McGill declined to verify. The purchase of the Marriott represents the third major residential real estate acquisition by McGill this decade, coming after the Renaissance Hotel (now New Residence) in 2003 and the Four Points Sheraton (now Carrefour Sherbrooke) in 2009.

 

“The main reason is so that we can make good on our guarantee of housing,” explained Morton Mendelson, Deputy Provost of Student Life and Learning.

 

At McGill, housing is guaranteed to all incoming first-year students under the age of 22. Previous real estate acquisitions, including the aforementioned hotels, have also been made in order to secure available housing for incoming students. Shortage of space in residence has proven troublesome in the past, most notably in the fall of 2008, when a building’s worth of apartment space had to be rented for first-year students lacking housing.

 

This year, according to Residences Director Michael Porritt, temporary housing had to be found for approximately 100 students as of move-in day. As in years past, many freshmen (also estimated at nearly 100) had to settle off-campus due to overflow. The newly-acquired Marriott will, when it opens its doors next year, help to accommodate a large number of students for whom housing would not be otherwise available.

 

By all indications, however, the Marriott is not an all-encompassing solution to McGill’s housing woes. McGill’s undergraduate class has been growing at an annual rate of 1%, roughly 200 students a year, and is projected to continue at this pace for the next two years. With no major real estate purchases slated for the near future students may still be left looking for housing options.

 

McGill’s budget for the 2010-2011 fiscal year states that, “It has become increasingly difficult to not only sustain McGill’s quality (and its approximate 29,000 students) while positioning the University to enhance its competitiveness in the future, but also to meet our obligation to reduce annual operating deficits and achieve a breakeven budget by [fiscal year] 2011.”

 

Mendelson explained the process behind the purchase.

 

“The university took out a bond to raise money. The bond was issued with the understanding that all the money raised by the bond would go into projects that created a financial return,” he said.

 

According to Porritt, the Residences department serves as a self-sustaining financial system, generating its own revenues each year. “Residences and the University do not purchase anything that we cannot pay for,” he said.

 

SSMU President Zach Newburgh reflected on the growth of the undergraduate class.

 

“The SSMU is glad that the university is opening its doors to more and more students, but recognizes that students will be faced with some of the negative consequences that will follow, such as increases in class sizes, fewer opportunities to engage with professors directly, longer wait times with advisors and other administrators, as well as a slew of others,” he said.

 

-with files from Michael Lee-Murphy

http://www.mcgilldaily.com/articles/32113

[Cataclaw]

I think this just proves it: We need to trust Gilbert more!

 

What a surprise out of nowhere this building has been.. just a few weeks ago we found out about it, and now all signs are really pointing towards construction -- and soon!

 

Holy crap, talk about a pleasant surprise!

 

Here's the skyline impact of the Ville-Marie Marriott Courtyard Hotel if we assume 40 floors and a height of ~132m.

 

 

I love how the Marriott will fill the gap between the Complexe Desjardins and the skyscraper cluster to the west!

Modifié 23 septembre 2010 par Cataclaw

[steve_36]

Le Marriott Courtyard de Sherbrooke Ouest sera converti en résidences étudiantes de l'Université McGill.

 

Oh, wow, cela explique tout et donne encore plus de poids au ''scoop'' de Gilbert. De plus, le site du ''futur'' Marriott sur René-Lévesque est exceptionnel. Lorsqu'on regarde bien sa situation géographique, c'est assez dur à battre donc un hotel de ce genre aura toutes les chances de réussir.

 

Je suis aussi ravi de constater que McGill manque encore de place pour ses étudiants......cela veut évidemment dire qu'il y aura d'autres acquisitions tot ou tard.

[ChrisDVD]

Just a question, from that view of downtown, will we be able to see the Altitude, or is it hidden behind or somewhere else?

[Cataclaw]

From that angle, yes, the Altitude will be visible! It'll pop up just a tad in between 1 Place Ville-Marie and the Marriott Courtyard!