{"id":460,"date":"2008-01-07T23:01:40","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T03:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=460"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:45:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:45:10","slug":"building-a-new-market-in-vieux-longueuil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/01\/07\/building-a-new-market-in-vieux-longueuil\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a new market in Vieux-Longueuil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vieux-longueuil.com\/photo\/marche\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vieux-longueuil.com\/photo\/marche\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most real estate developments don&#8217;t have their own blogs. The March\u00e9 du Vieux-Longueuil is different. Louis Voizard, its developer, is tracking its planning and eventual construction with frequent and unusually frank posts. Here&#8217;s his <a href=\"http:\/\/marchevieuxlongueuil.com\/?p=12\">description of the project<\/a>, which which would be built on the site of a former car dealership on St. Charles Street, the main drag in Longueuil&#8217;s old downtown:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Ce secteur de la rue Saint-Charles a grandement besoin d\u2019\u00eatre revitalis\u00e9 \u00e0 plusieurs points de vue. D\u2019abord, au plan architectural, cet immeuble, indigne de l\u2019art\u00e8re commerciale Saint-Charles, sera ras\u00e9 et remplac\u00e9 par une construction dont l\u2019architecture s\u2019appuiera sur les crit\u00e8res environnementaux LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) et sera en harmonie avec le quartier. Le site sera paysag\u00e9 au profit de la population r\u00e9sidante. Ne pas oublier \u00e9galement que le site sera enti\u00e8rement d\u00e9contamin\u00e9 avant toute construction. Nous en avons pris l\u2019engagement. <\/p>\n<p>On s\u2019inqui\u00e8te souvent de l\u2019arriv\u00e9e d\u2019un d\u00e9veloppement commercial dans une zone o\u00f9 des commer\u00e7ants sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 implant\u00e9s. On craint un impact sur ces marchands. Si c\u2019\u00e9tait vrai, pourquoi de petits commer\u00e7ants n\u2019h\u00e9sitent-ils pas \u00e0 s\u2019implanter dans des centres commerciaux et m\u00eame dans ce qu\u2019on appelle les Power Centres ? C\u2019est parce qu\u2019ils savent qu\u2019ils vont b\u00e9n\u00e9ficier de la vari\u00e9t\u00e9 de l\u2019offre (le mix commercial) et qu\u2019ils vont avoir plus de clients. Les marchands n\u2019ont rien \u00e0 craindre de notre projet, pas plus que les r\u00e9sidants qui profiteront d\u2019une offre commerciale plus vari\u00e9e, \u00e0 proximit\u00e9 de chez eux.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seems innocuous enough, right? Well, shortly after it was announced, somebody distributed anonymous flyers around Vieux-Longueuil warning against the market, claiming that it was actually a big box store in disguise. In response, the developer posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/marchevieuxlongueuil.com\/?p=38#comment-34\">impassioned defense<\/a> of his project on the market&#8217;s blog, pointing out that it would only be a fraction of the size of a typical big box store.<\/p>\n<p>Other residents are concerned that some of the market&#8217;s retail space will contain a bar (it won&#8217;t) or a caf\u00e9 (that idea was quashed at a recent public hearing). From what I can tell, though, there is little about it that would pose a threat to the surrounding neighbourhood. The <a href=\"http:\/\/marchevieuxlongueuil.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/panneauplandesite.jpg\">parking lot seems a bit big<\/a>, but at least it&#8217;s tucked away at the back of the site. If anything, having a market on St. Charles would be a great source of activity for the street. <\/p>\n<p>Check the <a href=\"http:\/\/marchevieuxlongueuil.com\/\">March\u00e9 du Vieux-Longueuil&#8217;s blog<\/a> for more news on the development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most real estate developments don&#8217;t have their own blogs. The March\u00e9 du Vieux-Longueuil is different. Louis Voizard, its developer, is tracking its planning and eventual construction with frequent and unusually frank posts. Here&#8217;s his description of the project, which which would be built on the site of a former car dealership on St. Charles Street,<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/01\/07\/building-a-new-market-in-vieux-longueuil\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Building a new market in Vieux-Longueuil&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7839,7842],"tags":[1655,9,94,1654,1038,45],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neighbourhoods","category-urban-design","tag-car-dealership","tag-development","tag-longueuil","tag-real-estate-developments","tag-retail-space","tag-revitalisation"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Building a new market in Vieux-Longueuil - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/01\/07\/building-a-new-market-in-vieux-longueuil\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Building a new market in Vieux-Longueuil - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Most real estate developments don&#8217;t have their own blogs. 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