Developers to sue city over park plans
Developers who had their eye on some of the remaining wetlands in the West Island now plan to sue the city for claiming the land for the big new west-end park.
(Interface note: Le Devoir has switched to posting massive photos as the link to every story. I see why they might: the web is a visual medium, and they’ve got good photographers. But it’s a paper that has always led with the word, so I think on the whole they’ve gone too far.
While on web design: La Presse recently changed its typography, using the strident Verlag Black for headlines, above the relatively wispy Calluna serif font for text. Not a marriage made in heaven – I predict it won’t last. They need to find a better balance. Somebody call Lucie Lacava.)
Joey 08:49 on 2019-08-20 Permalink
From the Gazette:
“The lawyer’s letter notes that in June 2015, Projet Montréal, then under the interim leadership of Luc Ferrandez, published on its website a statement claiming the project’s promoters were ‘linked to the Mafia’.”
Faiz Imam 14:44 on 2019-08-20 Permalink
This was always going to be the next step once the city announced their parc, in fact the developers have been threatening a lawsuit for years.
We have to hope the city has their arguments in line, and/or has the money to solve this.
By going out and making a big splash about the parc, the city has burned the retreat strategy for any future administration. Going back and developing that land now would be a huge political poison.
Like Formula E, its the right thing to do, but it might also come with high cost.