Devimco to develop Silo No. 5
Real estate developer Devimco has been chosen to redevelop Silo no 5 and the area around it, but there are no drawings yet of the plans. André Dubuc also summarizes several previous ideas for the site that came to nothing.
DeWolf 10:03 on 2019-07-12 Permalink
Great, Devimco, master of false promises and cheap yellow brick.
Uatu 10:42 on 2019-07-12 Permalink
And it’ll have a school and low cost housing….. And a unicorn farm…..
Ian 12:20 on 2019-07-12 Permalink
At least out there the Airbnbs won’t annoy any neighbours.
david100 13:50 on 2019-07-12 Permalink
Devimco sucks, but these were part of the decision making process, so it’s probably a pretty conservative plan (which should please most people): Dinu Bumbaru, directeur des politiques à Héritage Montréal, Pierre Bellerose, VP à Tourisme Montréal, et Sylvie Vachon, PDG du Port de Montréal.
ant6n 00:43 on 2019-07-13 Permalink
“Conservative plan” probably, which here likely means a bunch of condo-skyscrapers in the park without any urbanism, social housing, mixed use, or public facilities.
Faiz Imam 01:57 on 2019-07-13 Permalink
I agree, Dinu is a architecture guy who loves restoration and facadism. We can be sure that the final project will retain and evoke a lot of the current and past look and feel of the silos.
But they’ve never been particularly interested in the fundamental urbanism and use of those spaces.