[montréaliste]

Yes, downtown Montreal is getting ready for 10 new major projects approved by the city and announced this morning. A number of interesting projects on long neglected sites that needed high density.

Le Peterson on rue de la Concorde is named in honor of Oscar Peterson, the jazz pianist and native son will be a 34 story tower in the style of Aqua in Chicago. The small lot is close the Place des Festivals in the Quartier des Spectacles. A lot of buzz in the area for new buildings either being built or in the planning stages. Bleury street is the epicenter of this building spree. Developers are working on a building design for a 30 some odd story mixed use tower on the corner of Ste-Catherine street where the old Spectrum theatre used to be.

SNC-Lavalin's world headquarters is also up for the addition of a second larger tower on its lot on René-Lévesque and Bleury. Across the street from it, a new project by Point Zero, the fashion garment companyHQ to rehab two towers as hotel/condos. Diagonally across the SNC-Lavalin HQ's lot is the new Marriott Courtyard hotel and apartment (rentals) tower being built. That is a 40 story bldg.

The Roccabella is a 2x 35 story condo project on René-Lévesque and a little further on the same will appear a 35 to 40 story mixed use on the ilot Overdale. Another interesting proposal is the Ogilvy department store extension of its circa1866 building with a condo and hotel mixed use tower of 16 stories.

Cadillac Fairview also has a Kohn Pedersen Fox designed 27 floor tower on its Windsor Station property approved.