Montreal Dying On The Main
Josh Freed, in his Saturday Gazoo column last week talked about the street work being done around Sainte Catherine and The Main. He says, “Maybe I’m over-sensitive because I watched […]
Category Archives: Development
Residents near housing project get intimidating letter
Residents near housing project get intimidating letter. By MICHELLE LALONDE, The GazetteOctober 8, 2010 Neighbours of a housing project planned for the former site of Marianopolis College found anonymous letters […]
Park Ex Residents Worried | Montreal Mirror
Little India U | Montreal Mirror. “CAPE submitted a proposal to the city of Montreal to create land reserves for social housing, including co-ops. The city wasn’t interested. “We feel […]
“District Griffin” Open For Buisness
On lower Peel street, adequate parking. One can only suppose that the wrought iron look is meant to evoke some nostalgia for cultures past and a cool postmodern sensibility. Perhaps […]
New Orleans and Saint Louis Considering Freeway Removal
Seems to be a growing trend around the world and it’s still not too late to think about this for Montreal. New Orleans has the same problem of aging infrastructure. […]
Baby Foxes say “No Expropriations” At Meadowbrook
Perhaps we have all approached the threatened development of Meadowbrook from the wrong perspective. These photos by David Robertson says it all!
No Expansion At Marianopolis!
Mayor announced today that only the existing buildings can be converted into condos instead of a huge development. Sometimes the better idea prevails, but this was due to the hard […]
Griffintown: The Limits of Loss
Excellent article by P.J. Sevigny discusses how the new Devimco project will probably still destroy Griffintown. And I agree that towers are a quick death for an area ready to […]
Turcot Side Effects Kicking In
Seems in the West End there is a problem for developers who bought the recently demised Motel Raphael with the idea of turning it into a two-storey hotel and strip […]
Protection For Ecoterritories In Budget?
Montreal Island has a very low percentage of green space (3%) and while the city has often talked about increasing that number (up to 8%), it has shown absolutely nothing […]
Market Street
Video about the “repaving” of Market Street in San Francisco due in 2013. We should be doing things this way here too. more about "Market Street", posted with vodpod From […]
Save The Main!
The Main has to be helped, but shoving in more corporate development is not the answer. The place can’t stop having meaning for Montrealers for it would be a huge […]
Lesson # 1: How To Not Build A City
Although I missed it myself a friend told me that one of the representatives of the Societe du Havre de Montreal group behind all the Bonaventure redevelopments (which includes the […]
Book Launch Tonight
Montreal At The Crossroads : Superhighways, the Turcot and the Environment is being officially launched Thursday evening at Paragraphe book store at 7pm. 2220 McGill College (corner Sherbrooke) Metro: McGill. […]
Marianopolis At Stake
“If you are already aware of the issues surrounding this rezoning and possible development project, please skip to the 3 minute mark.This video was made to increase awareness about the […]
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