More on the $1.3-billion project that will render Griffintown unrecognizable in a few years. A brief history of the area sketches its origins as an Irish working class neighbourhood. Bloggers are weighing in on the development: A.J. Kandy is running some of the maps and artist renderings on Save Griffintown, and asking pertinent questions about plans for the area.

I think what makes me saddest about this kind of megadevelopment, even more than the knowledge that it brings more suburban values right into the heart of town, is that such developments are relentlessly corporate. Where's the space for the used bookshop, the neighbourhood café, the ethnic chicken rotisserie?
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