MONTRÉAL :: Les Projets

[MTLskyline]

Merci pour la nouvelle!

Voici le fil: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=141108

[MTLskyline]

MILE END | Le Milieu | 4 étages
Localisation: http://goo.gl/maps/L1nHA (5380-5382 Boul. Saint-Laurent à Mile End)


http://www.flickr.com/photos/24657061@N05/8937795064/

[MTLskyline]

Des photos du nouveau Musée Grévin de Montréal:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bestter/sets/72157633867971643/

Site web: http://www.grevin-montreal.com/

[MTLskyline]

It's great to see that Quebecor is financing/maintaining the new bus shelters by itself. It should be interesting to see if they are kept cleaner.

New bus shelters will feature interactive screens

By Andy Riga, GAZETTE TRANSPORTATION REPORTER
June 4, 2013 5:07 PM

MONTREAL - For the second time in three years, Montreal’s transit agency has unveiled a “bus shelter for the 21st century.”

This time, some of the new shelters will include 84-inch interactive screens featuring advertising, bus schedules, maps, news and weather.

In 2010, the Société de transport de Montréal disclosed a sleek redesign — a glass cube with a slanting roof — and said 400 of the new shelters would be in place by 2013.

But the initiative stalled and only three of the new shelters were built — on René-Lévesque Blvd. near Jeanne-Mance St. and in front of CEGEP Ahuntsic and the Langelier métro station.

On Tuesday, Quebecor Media, which recently won a 20-year contract to oversee STM bus shelters, announced it will push ahead with the transition to new shelters.

It said it will replace 1,870 current shelters and add 850 by 2023. The switchover will begin this fall, with the installation of 200 shelters, including 40 high-tech versions, Quebecor Media said.

The company is responsible for installing, maintaining and selling advertising on STM bus shelters

Quebecor Media spokesperson Martin Tremblay said it’s unclear how many of the interactive screens will eventually be installed. That will depend on how the public reacts to them, he said.

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Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/shelters+...screens/8478095/story.html#ixzz2VIAevPRj

[MTLskyline]

McGill purchasing the Royal Vic is probably the best possible outcome for the old hospital.

McGill University mulls big campus expansion onto Royal Vic site
‘Looking seriously’ at a bid for hospital buildings, land: university official

By JAN RAVENSBERGEN, THE GAZETTE
June 6, 2013 9:32 AM

MONTREAL — McGill University is mulling a big move — seeking to dramatically expand the footprint of its downtown campus by taking in some or all of the Royal Victoria Hospital complex.

The sprawling hospital is to be emptied once the new Montreal University Health Centre superhospital in the city’s west end is fully functioning.

“We are looking seriously” at mounting a bid to take over the Vic’s majestic structures — and the land on which they stand, dominating the southern flank of Mount Royal — to give them a teaching and research vocation, Olivier Marcil, vice-principal for communications and external relations, said in a Thursday morning interview.

This would resolve the university’s substantial and growing space deficit, Marcil added.

It also represents, he added, “an opportunity to consolidate the future of McGill University.”

Adding the Royal Vic site to the existing downtown campus with a specific health sciences vocation is “what we have in mind for the moment,” Marcil said.

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Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/McGill+Un...al+site/8487357/story.html#ixzz2VRaFCuWo

[Rico Rommheim]

A no-brainer. Surprised McGill is only 'mulling' this move now. It should have prepared a take-over years ago, in my opinion.

[Martin Mtl]

That would be ideal. And, if that happened, it would be nice to demolished some of the newer additions that deface the old victorian buildings.

[yarabundi]

Logically, it should be used by the faculty of medecine that is very close from the Royal Vic.

[mr.John]

Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

A no-brainer. Surprised McGill is only 'mulling' this move now. It should have prepared a take-over years ago, in my opinion.

On paper it sounds ideal, but in reality those old buildings are a financial nightmare to renovate and maintain (have you ever been inside the royal Vic.)

[Rico Rommheim]

I read in the papers that though the Royal Vic is worth $177 million, there are about $200 million worth of renovation to be done. So whoever buys the VIc will have to dish out about 400 million dollars. I understand now that this is insane.

[MTLskyline]

1205 Mackay | 11 étages





Source: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/k9kkapor2zfidag/Cg0laXXx8i/tk1304-Mackay-Z2-1400.jpg

[Rico Rommheim]

^Good render, — project.

What doesn't jive with me here:

-Not tall enough. Should be 20 floors at least.
-Mediocre architecture. Would look great in Longueuil.
-NO retail or commerce. We don't need to turn lower Mackay into a sleepy suburban street, we need pubs, bars, shish taouk restaurants or a clinic or something, this is steps away from the EV building and the rest of Concordia.

[Rico Rommheim]

Originally Posted by MTLskyline

MILE END | Le Milieu | 4 étages
Localisation: http://goo.gl/maps/L1nHA (5380-5382 Boul. Saint-Laurent à Mile End)


http://www.flickr.com/photos/24657061@N05/8937795064/

Ok, this is embarrassing. Montreal, where are your balls, man?

[MTLskyline]

Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

^Good render, — project.

What doesn't jive with me here:

-Not tall enough. Should be 20 floors at least.
-Mediocre architecture. Would look great in Longueuil.
-NO retail or commerce. We don't need to turn lower Mackay into a sleepy suburban street, we need pubs, bars, shish taouk restaurants or a clinic or something, this is steps away from the EV building and the rest of Concordia.

I completely agree. This is very basic architecture and the lack of ground-level retail is unforgivable. Having said that, I don't mind 10 storey buildings on side streets in the core, provided they are attractive and contain ground-level retail (both of which this project does not). Unfortunately, I suspect it may already be approved because it doesn't exceed the maximum allowed height (the city seems not to care about architectural quality or other things...)

I believe that this might be a second phase of Flex Condos on Bishop. Although at least the ones on Bishop will have ground-level businesses.

Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

Ok, this is embarrassing. Montreal, where are your balls, man?

It's generic for sure, but this isn't exactly a very attractive stretch of Saint-Laurent.

[Rico Rommheim]

That stretch of the main has gentrified greatly in the last decade. I live there actually, and I've seen it transform into an extension of mile end. It has great restaurants, pubs and night clubs. Ubisoft is around the corner. This stretch deserves better.

[easy as pie]

Originally Posted by MTLskyline

This is very basic architecture and the lack of ground-level retail is unforgivable.

please please let mtl's planners/council get this right.

[MTLskyline]

LaSalle | ? | 12 étages
Localisation: http://goo.gl/maps/n5CXe


https://www.dropbox.com/sh/k9kkapor2zfidag/N-P2LFT9rf#f:tk1322-Lasalle%20Z1b-FINAL%205400.jpg

[Rico Rommheim]

Booooring!


Ok for LaSalle though.

[MTLskyline]

Le promoteur du Dix30 lorgne Ville Mont-Royal
Hugo Joncas . les affaires.com . 27-06-2013 (modifié le 27-06-2013 à 18:04)

PRIMEUR - Après le Dix30, le Quinze40 ? Le promoteur du mégacentre dit «lifestyle» de Brossard a un projet immobilier mixte à Ville Mont-Royal. À l’angle des autoroutes 15 et 40, Carbonleo veut construire un nouveau complexe de bureaux et de commerces de détail, révèle une nouvelle inscription au Registre des lobbyistes. Son emplacement serait vraisemblablement sur le chemin Côte-de-Liesse, juste à l’ouest de l’échangeur.

Carbonleo réserve ses commentaires, mais Claude Marcotte, de la firme d’urbanisme IBI/DAA, a obtenu le mandat de faire des représentations «en vue de l'approbation (notamment par résolution) et la signature d'un accord de développement entre Immobilier Carbonleo Inc. et Ville Mont-Royal» pour ce projet. Il tentera d’obtenir un changement au zonage, actuellement industriel.

Carbonleo est la nouvelle entreprise qu’a créée Jean-François Breton après son départ de Devimco. La nouvelle société doit se concentrer sur les projets de commerce de détail. En consortium, Carbonleo et Devimco finiront cependant de développer les 200 000 pieds carrés restants au Dix30.

Peu de détails filtrent en ce qui a trait au projet de Mont-Royal. «C’est vraiment préliminaire, dit Sophie Roy, de la firme de relations publiques Cohn & Wolfe, en charge des communications de Carbonleo. L’assemblage des terrains n’est même pas terminé !»

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Lire la suite: http://www.lesaffaires.com/secteurs-d-ac...gne-ville-mont-royal/559224#.UdM5mW3hdJ4

[Rico Rommheim]

Not feeling there's much of a future for this one.