Phyllis Lambert, founding director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture and longtime Montreal heritage activist, says it’s not too late to stop the proposed $1.3-billion Griffintown development.
“It’s not too late to improve it, to make it better,” she told a news conference today.
“I strongly believe in public consultation, in the opinion of people who live here. You can’t bring in a project like this under the carpet.
”All projects should be subject to public consultation.
“I don’t understand why the city doesn’t follow the procedures that it, itself, put in place,” she said.
Lambert insisted she has no authority to stop anything, but it would not be the first time she has brought her considerable influence to bear on urban planning.
“When everything in Montreal was coming down in the 1960s, we stopped it,” she said.
“It’s not too late to stop this, too and make it a better project.”
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French press release here.
Building The “Anti-Griffintown”
