So, the new mystery apartment building on Acadie now has a name -
Le Promenade Neuf, an homage to the fact that it will lie at the 9 km signpost along the Petitcodiac River Trail. According to the article in the T&T, there will be a website up and running in the next few weeks, so we will soon have additional images and renders to ponder over.
Le Promenade Neuf will easily be nearly as impactful on the Dieppe city skyline as Horizon Place is. If another couple such buildings get built in downtown Dieppe, greater Moncton will have a second skyline in addition to the downtown Moncton skyline.
There has been a sudden change in the type and character of (some) of the new apartment construction in the metro area. Traditionally, the standard build was a four storey vinyl clad wooden box, but things seem to have changed a bit with the recent additions of Horizon Place and FiveFive Queen.
Current apartment projects planned, proposed or under construction include:
1) - Le Promenade Neuf (Dieppe, seven storeys)
2) - Tannery Place South (Moncton downtown, six storeys)
3) - Emma Place (Moncton northwest, six storeys)
4) - Chocolate River Station (Riverview, two 10 storey towers)
This is excellent to see.
Of course there are multiple low rise apartment projects also in the pipeline, and some of those are still vinyl clad boxes, but more and more we are seeing projects with interesting architectural style (like The Kensington in Riverview), and many new projects include amenities like enclosed parking.