MONTREAL | YUL Condos (2 towers) | 120 M / 394 FT | 38, 38 FLOORS - Page 6

Rico Rommheim · #**101** Posted **Aug 25, 2013, 11:26 PM**

It goes on sale September 13.

SkahHigh · #**102** Posted **Aug 25, 2013, 11:54 PM**

So we should expect construction to start this spring I'm guessing?

Rico Rommheim · #**103** Posted **Aug 26, 2013, 12:19 AM**

Maybe. If the sales go well. The market's difficult though, projects are stalling all over town, we'll have to wait and see with this one...

MTLskyline · #**104** Posted **Sep 7, 2013, 8:16 PM**

Here's a new render from today's Gazette that we haven't seen before:

Scanned picture from The Gazette "New Homes and Condos" section, Saturday Sept. 9, 2013 (courtesy of YUL)

It looks quite good, IMO. It definitely looks to be around 120M.

SkahHigh · #**105** Posted **Sep 7, 2013, 8:23 PM**

Well it is higher than E-Commerce Place, which is 110 meters high, so 120 meters seems pretty close.

Rico Rommheim · #**106** Posted **Sep 7, 2013, 8:47 PM**

I like it. I like how they're actually gonna build the row houses on overdale street AND renovate the Papineau mansion. Still not clear what will be at the corner of Lucien and Rene.

Thanks for the scan mtlskyline

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Well it is higher than E-Commerce Place, which is 110 meters high, so 120 meters seems pretty close.

small correction if you don't mind: E-commerce is 119m tall. The maximum height you can build on the YUL site is 120m. THis will be the heigh of the twins.

SkahHigh · #**107** Posted **Sep 7, 2013, 11:57 PM**

I REALLY like the design of these towers. Something fresh for Montreal. I hope they get built.

Rico Rommheim · #**108** Posted **Sep 11, 2013, 3:37 PM**

From their facebook:

MolsonExport · #**109** Posted **Sep 11, 2013, 3:59 PM**

A really modern and fresh look for that part of Montreal.

shakman · #**110** Posted **Sep 11, 2013, 6:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

A really modern and fresh look for that part of Montreal.

I really like the facades of both towers. My only concern is these towers may not be as noticeable since many other projects are slated and under-construction for this area.

MTLskyline · #**111** Posted **Sep 11, 2013, 9:20 PM**

It would be great to see a tower on the site of the Concordia Fine Arts building as well.

Tlaffin · #**112** Posted **Sep 12, 2013, 3:16 PM**

Very excited to see either a render, or the future state of this part of René-Lévesque. It will be quite an impressive sight if all of these projects are built, and will create a very nice 'walled' effect in this part of downtown.. Hopefully all goes through.

franktko · #**113** Posted **Sep 12, 2013, 3:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by shakman

I really like the facades of both towers. My only concern is these towers may not be as noticeable since many other projects are slated and under-construction for this area.

If you mean they won't be noticed on the skyline, then that's not true. Since they are extending the skyline west, these towers will be very visible from the two most popular Montreal views: the Mont-Royal and the Champlain Bridge.

SkahHigh · #**114** Posted **Sep 12, 2013, 5:36 PM**

Since there are no major developments in front or behind these towers, I believe they will be noticed in the skyline, contrarily to towers in high-density areas like Altitude, stuck right beside the PVM...

Wellz · #**115** Posted **Sep 17, 2013, 2:20 PM**

Construction to start spring 2014

http://maison.lapresse.ca/habitation...ers-louest.php

franktko · #**116** Posted **Sep 17, 2013, 2:49 PM**

^^^ http://maison.lapresse.ca/habitation...ers-louest.php

Rico Rommheim · #**117** Posted **Sep 17, 2013, 9:30 PM**

The towers should be allowed to reach 200m. But this is great project, that will enhance the boulevards street wall effect greatly, but most importantly overdale street and the papineau home will be fixed with that rowhouse phase.

Still don't know if they plan to build anything on the corner of R-L and Lucien L'allier.

Cataclaw · #**118** Posted **Sep 18, 2013, 6:47 PM**

Pictures I took today, Septembrer 18th 2013.

MTLskyline · #**119** Posted **Sep 18, 2013, 8:55 PM**

Thanks for the shot. This area will be a lot better in a few years.

MTLskyline · #**120** Posted **Sep 19, 2013, 11:14 PM**

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Lafontaine House to get luxury facelift
Heritage activists fighting proposed residential use

By Allison Lampert, GAZETTE real estate reporter
September 19, 2013 7:00 PM

MONTREAL — A restoration plan for Montreal’s crumbling Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine House could have buyers living like a former prime minister — but with indoor plumbing.

A plan to convert the former residence of the pre-Confederation leader into luxury homes is part of the $250-million YUL project, which is launching next week with plans to build up to 856 condo units, a 23,000 square foot courtyard and 18 townhouses in a multi-phase project that spans a city-block on René Lévesque Blvd. between Mackay and Lucien L’Allier Sts.

But contrary to a news release detailing how the decrepit Overdale Ave. building would be “beautifully restored, (with) its heritage exterior housing residential units,” a partner in YUL has denied that the Maison Lafontaine’s conversion is a done deal.

“This (the conversion to residences) is one of two plans that we are presenting to the city,” Montreal developer Jack Arduini told The Gazette.

Montreal heritage activists, who have campaigned for decades to save abandoned buildings like the Maison Lafontaine from demolition, say they plan to meet with the developer next month with the hopes of securing a “public vocation” for the former prime minister’s residence.

“It would be nice if the Lafontaine house is not just a skin in front of a cube of condos,” said Dinu Bumbaru, policy director for Héritage Montréal.

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http://www.montrealgazette.com/busin...807/story.html