Royalmount project delayed, adjusted
The Royalmount project has been delayed a year, and the number of condos adjusted downward. The developers sound quite proud that they’ve managed to exclude social housing completely. The prospect of a 10,000-sq-ft Louis Vuitton boutique doesn’t really lift my spirits, you know?
DeWolf 13:41 on 2021-03-02 Permalink
Interesting bit from the article: as the project stands, TMR has complete control, but if a residential component were added, it would require a zoning change and then the agglomeration (ie Montreal) will get involved. Since housing is where the money’s at, Carbonleo will no doubt be pushing hard for the rezoning. That may finally give Montreal a chance to mitigate the worst aspects of this project, namely its promise to dump a huge amount of extra car traffic onto already saturated roads.
orr 15:06 on 2021-03-02 Permalink
I went past the site every day until the lockdown last year as old things were torn down and the space opened up.
I wonder what alternatives to the carbonleo plans your blog readers would suggest is optimal to build in that space?
I vote for rewilding of the site to create an urban green space.
Kate 20:36 on 2021-03-02 Permalink
I’d love to see an experiment in building a real, viable neighbourhood, with some pedestrian streets, mixed architectural styles, some small storefronts intended for independent businesses and cafés, things like a school, a library and a clinic, a reliable bus route, a park, but it’ll never happen because it’s not profitable enough. Everyone loves streets like Mont‑Royal and Masson, St‑Viateur and Bernard and Wellington, but that’s partly because they’re like the rhinoceros, they’re the last of their kind, we can’t build any more of them.