last i looked, they were doing residential at the street level at that clermont lofts project
otherwise looking good.
as for the tour des canadiens 2, did people read that article?
«Au dernier trimestre de 2012, 64 % des unités en projet au centre-ville, dans le Vieux-Montréal et dans Griffintown étaient déjà vendues », signale-t-il. wtf, wow, the market is far stronger than i had believed possible. if the analysts at candarel and cadillac-fairview are seeing a market strong enough that they'll be moving ahead with a new residential tower in the fall and potentially another 500k sqf of office, that's something. for a longtime montreal cynic, i'm very impressed.
the best thing about the repopulation of the core here is that once we hit critical mass, future development will become easier and more frequent, they won't require a residential property boom, they'll just become normal as the downtown gets hot enough to sustain development independent of cycles. that's how mtl's core was built and it makes one salivate to imagine it happening again. as long as we get good pedestrian-oriented development with street commercial, that is...