{"id":574,"date":"2008-02-04T02:43:19","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T07:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=574"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:37:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:37:07","slug":"more-news-on-griffintown-redevlopment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/02\/04\/more-news-on-griffintown-redevlopment\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffintown News Roundup #2: Jan. 23-Jan. 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2168\/2239721257_cfaac457b5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Griffintown continues to make waves in the local media.  On the footsteps of our <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/?p=512\">last news roundup<\/a>, here, in chronological order are many of the news stories and blog posts written about the proposed redevelopment over the last couple weeks.  Also included are dates of presentations concerning the redevelopment that are planned for the near future:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jan. 23:<\/strong> Le Devoir runs three stories concerning the redevelopment: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledevoir.com\/2008\/01\/23\/172896.html\">One<\/a> about the various cultural institutions that are planned, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledevoir.com\/2008\/01\/23\/172881.html\">another<\/a> concerning developer Devimico&#8217;s commitment (or lack thereof) to historic preservation, and finally an excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledevoir.com\/2008\/01\/23\/172899.html\">opinion piece<\/a> from residents Judith Bauer and Christopher Gobeil.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jan. 24:<\/strong> <strike>A.J. Kandy<\/strike> Stephanie Troeth at the <a href=\"http:\/\/savegriffintown.wordpress.com\/\">Save Griffintown<\/a> blog <a href=\"http:\/\/savegriffintown.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/24\/thoughts-from-project-griffintown-public-meeting\/\">gives her thoughts<\/a> on a public meeting given by Devimco at the \u00c9cole de technologie sup\u00e9rieure which was attended by over 100 people despite being poorly advertised.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jan. 29:<\/strong>  A.J. Kandy writes an <a href=\"http:\/\/savegriffintown.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/29\/devimco-reso-consultation-heres-what-was-said\/\">exhaustive review<\/a> of what was said (with mock-ups) at the Devimco-RESO public consultation on January 23rd.  Devimico promised to have a &#8220;Projet Griffintown&#8221; website up within the week, however, said website has yet to surface.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jan. 30:<\/strong> Sud-Ouest borough mayor Jacqueline Montpetit is getting ready for various public consultations.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberpresse.ca\/article\/20080130\/CPACTUALITES\/801300725\/5155\/CPACTUALITES\">Story<\/a> via La Press.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jan. 31:<\/strong> La Press <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberpresse.ca\/article\/20080131\/CPACTUALITES\/801310595\/5155\/CPACTUALITES\">reports<\/a> that if Griffintown is redeveloped as planned, the entire map of the area could be heavily altered with new streets being added, existing streets widened, while others could disappear entirely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Feb. 5:<\/strong> The Sud-Ouest borough is planning its first official public meeting for tomorrow night (February 5) in the borough mayors\u2019 office, at 815 rue Bel-Air, 2nd floor meeting room starting at 7PM.  If you want to ask questions or make a comment, you must show up early and register before 6:30PM.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Feb. 12:<\/strong> The Little Burgundy Coalition will be hosting a public discussion with urban planning professors Pierre Gauthier from Concordia University and David Hanna from UQAM.  The discussion will be held at the Centre-Culturel Georges-Vanier, 2450 rue Workman from 9AM until noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Griffintown continues to make waves in the local media. On the footsteps of our last news roundup, here, in chronological order are many of the news stories and blog posts written about the proposed redevelopment over the last couple weeks. Also included are dates of presentations concerning the redevelopment that are planned for the near<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/02\/04\/more-news-on-griffintown-redevlopment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Griffintown News Roundup #2: Jan. 23-Jan. 31&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5014,"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":[7836,7839,7842],"tags":[723,1874,1872,673,1870,9,36,73,1871,1724,1873,486,1875,341,1876,666,5,1122,1877],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","category-neighbourhoods","category-urban-design","tag-borough-mayor","tag-centre-culturel-georges-vanier","tag-christopher-gobeil","tag-concordia-university","tag-david-hanna","tag-development","tag-griffintown","tag-headlines-a-la-une","tag-j-kandy-stephanie-troeth","tag-jacqueline-montpetit","tag-judith-bauer","tag-le-devoir","tag-little-burgundy-coalition","tag-local-media","tag-official-public-meeting","tag-pierre-gauthier","tag-planning","tag-sud-ouest","tag-sud-ouest-borough-mayor"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Griffintown News Roundup #2: Jan. 23-Jan. 31 - 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\/02\/04\/more-news-on-griffintown-redevlopment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Griffintown News Roundup #2: Jan. 23-Jan. 31 - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Griffintown continues to make waves in the local media. 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