Housing / Logement
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New look for the Ritz-Carlton
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, one of Sherbrooke Street’s most recognizable landmarks, will soon be transformed with a $100 million renovation and...
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The Habitat 67 experience
Yesterday, I visited someone who lives in Habitat 67. It was the first time I had been inside the landmark apartment complex, built as part of Expo 67 and...
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Deconstructing the Turcot Interchange
Last year, the provincial government announced that the Turcot Interchange, at the junction of highways 20 and 15, will be completely rebuilt at a cost of...
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Big changes ahead for Mile End’s garment district
The old industrial area in the east part of Mile End, between St. Laurent and Henri Julien is set for a makeover. Yesterday, the city announced that $8.8...
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A lesson we need to learn from Albania
The downtown west end is one of my favourite parts of Montreal. Densely-populated, teeming with life and resolutely multicultural, it feels unique because...
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Mysterious igloos appear on Mount Royal
The Journal de Montréal reported yesterday that two igloos have appeared on Mount Royal, one near Park Avenue and the other further west, near Beaver...
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A condo tower done right
A certain segment of the population seems hard-wired to scoff at any mention of the word “condominium.” It’s certainly true that most...
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Montreal’s lost Expo opportunity
Expo 67’s 40th anniversary has passed, but there’s one aspect of the world fair that I find strangely overlooked: its transportation system...
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Montreal’s postwar neighbourhoods
Jean Talon Street in Saint Michel For all of its historic neighbourhoods, Montreal is really a postwar city. In the twenty years after 1941, the number of...
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Montreal population density since 1971
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/analysis/popdwell/maps/animations/CMAs/Montreal.swf" width="525" height="325"/] This map...
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Reaction to the Griffintown mega-development
Since news broke yesterday afternoon with details about Devimco’s plan to massively redevelop Griffintown, the blogosphere has been abuzz with...
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More details on the Griffintown redevelopment
New details have emerged today on the redevelopment of Griffintown, which we first wrote about last July. Radio-Canada reports that it will cost at least...
By Christopher DeWolf