MONTRÉAL :: Les Projets

[Rico Rommheim]

I can't believe they're gonna tear down these two buildings to build what someone aptly referred to as "puke-boxes".

And where's Bumbaru on this one hein? Yet he's there in a flash to defend that 1950's Windsor station annex monstrosity.

[MTLskyline]

Montréal du Futur 2012: Le 24 au 30 Avril.

http://www.boma-quebec.org/en/montreal_du_futur.php

[lake of the nations]

Le nouveau toit de l'hôtel de Ville est pratiquement terminé.

Hugo-Sébastien Aubert, Archives La Presse

[lake of the nations]

Grande nouvelle pour le 1215 Square Phillips: la tour comptera finalement 40 étages plutôt que 25!

Originally Posted by GDS
CALL FOR BIDDERS
1215 rue Square Phillips, H3B 3E9
$180,000,000 est

Project is at the preliminary stage of pre-development and coordination with municipal authorities. Timelines for planning, sub trade tender and construction have yet to be determined. Further update fall 2012.

Proposed construction of an office tower with commercial and food service areas on the ground floor. The building may also house a component with condominium units and or a hotel. The scope of the project also includes landscaping works and construction of a green roof.

900,000 square feet; 40 storeys; 5 storeys below grade

[Rico Rommheim]

Woooooooooow!!!!

[MolsonExport]

wow, tallest (potential) office tower launch since...1990!

[MTLskyline]

40 floors * 4 meters per floor gives 160m.
If it is 4.5, it would be 180m.

That is excellent.

[MTLskyline]

They started putting on some of the cladding on the MUHC superhospital. It was hard to tell from the Turcot, but it didn't look as horrible as I had expected (it is white like in the plans though).

I also noticed that Evolo is already easily visible from the south shore.

[Rico Rommheim]

Pictures please!

[Jringe01]

OH Boy!!!!! good news about SQ Phillips...can't wait to see the renderings

[Rico Rommheim]

Originally Posted by MTLskyline

40 floors * 4 meters per floor gives 160m.
If it is 4.5, it would be 180m.

That is excellent.

So we're talking about 40 floors of office or some office with a residential/hotel component ? Because if its is only office, this project is shit out of luck.

[hockey rules!]

Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

So we're talking about 40 floors of office or some office with a residential/hotel component ? Because if its is only office, this project is shit out of luck.

Lol je comprend même pas pourquoi tout le monde s'existe...il y a des bureaux dans la tours, elle ne montera jamais. Ça vous a rien appri les projets des dernières années? Regardez le seul qui a une chance de monter c'est la Place de la Cité Int. qui a passé de 31 étages...à 16 . Alors faites vous pas d'espoir, ça change rien. Repensez à tous les projets au cours des dernières années, c'est juste un de plus On aura rien comme projet à pars la Tour des Canadiens. Peut-être vers 2048 on aura une tour qui dépassera les 160 mètres!

[Eustache]

Originally Posted by hockey rules!

Lol je comprend même pas pourquoi tout le monde s'existe...il y a des bureaux dans la tours, elle ne montera jamais.

Altoria/Viger, il y a des bureaux, tu crois qu'elle ne montera jamais??

[Rico Rommheim]

Bah, L'altoria va avoir 200,000 p/c de bureaux, c'est quand meme pas grand chose...

[Eustache]

C'est assez pour réfuter son affirmation comme quoi s'il y a des bureaux dans un projet, jamais il ne montera.

[Rico Rommheim]

Oui, mais il faut être capable de discriminer projet par projet. Le Philipps square sera une tour a bureaux. 40 étages, on parles facilement de 800,000 p/c.

[hockey rules!]

Originally Posted by Eustache

Altoria/Viger, il y a des bureaux, tu crois qu'elle ne montera jamais??

C'est rien comme espace. C'est à peine 10 étages et je ne suis même pas sûr qu'ils aient tous trouvés preneur! 10 étages sont difficiles à remplir....imagine 40!

[Rico Rommheim]

Altoria went up with great fanfare, journalists hailing it as Montreal's "first office tower" to go up in years, when it really went up because the condo sales did (relatively) well. I too, wonder how the office leading is gonna pan out...

[MTLskyline]

Montreal condo market shows signs of strain

JAY BRYAN, The Gazette
February 1, 2012. 11:28 am • Section: Pocketbook

We saw some insights into how Montreal compares with other Canadian cities in a study of housing markets this week by the BMO Capital Markets. One that might be of concern is that Montreal actually has more vacant condos than either Vancouver or Toronto and a rental vacancy rate among condos that’s twice as high as those in either of these cities. The vacancy rate is important because a key support for the condo market is that real-estate investors will often buy condos to put them up for rent.

The vacancy rate for condos in Montreal, however, is more than 2 per cent, compared with 1.1 per cent in Toronto and 0.9 per cent in Vancouver, says BMO economist Sal Guatieri. This is not disastrous for Montreal, but it is a sign that an important support for the condo market is not as strong here as in other big Canadian cities. Guatieri said he wouldn’t consider the rental market to be really unhealthy, though, unless the vacancy rate approached 5 per cent, a level where rents would likely be under pressure to decline.

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http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/201...gns-of-strain/

[lake of the nations]

Voici le chantier du nouveau Planétarium en direct.

http://www.planetarium.montreal.qc.ca/webcamHD.jpg