Plans unveiled for renovation of Phillips Square
Plans were unveiled Tuesday morning for the renovation of Phillips Square.
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Blork 16:39 on 2019-01-22 Permalink
$50 million? How can that possibly cost $50 million? All they’re doing is widening sidewalks and putting in a few trees!
Kate 21:05 on 2019-01-22 Permalink
The bill for redoing Place d’Armes almost ten years ago: $15.5 million according to Wikipedia.
Various prices have been mentioned for redoing Dorchester Square and Place du Canada: a quote from the Gazette in 2010 mentions $23 million but that didn’t include later work on the northern edge of the square, costed at $4.2 million in 2016. Those two squares had the complication that they’d previously been a cemetery.
Work on Place Vauquelin was assessed at $12 million in 2015 including work on an antique fountain. As an adjunct to city hall and as a part of Old Montreal it’s reasonable to keep the small square looking nice.
Didn’t one of my readers kvetch about the cost of spiffing up Carré St‑Louis? I can’t look it up.
But these price tags (which may not be final or complete) are all significantly lower than the Phillips Square plan.
CharlesQ 23:44 on 2019-01-22 Permalink
There’s more information here: https://www.makingmtl.ca/squarephillips but there’s no breakdown of the cost (which should be mandatory for all public projects, it must be somewhere). There’s mention of the “vespasiennes” that were there where the columns with the bronze vents at the top are. Anyway, the very detailed PDF with loads of information (in french) on that site.
Mr.Chinaski 12:42 on 2019-01-23 Permalink
The price includes all the infrastructure. I refer you to this : https://twitter.com/SylvainOuellet/status/1087863658498191360 showing how much stuff has to be gutted, the second pic shows the area surrounding Square Phillips. It’s a total gut. Cost for Place des Montréalaises and Square Viger are around 30 million $. Price skyrockets when you start adding up engineer price (structural, civil, mechanical for the fountain + water feature) and the mitigation costs for a downtown public space.
Kate 20:43 on 2019-12-13 Permalink
CharlesQ, Mr Chinaski, I never thanked you for those links but I’m doing that now.