A lot of people showed up last night at the ÉTS for the first dog and pony show on the proposed Devimco plan for Griffintown, so many that extra chairs were hastily added and some folks stood gazing down from a staircase and landing above. The sketches shown looked like a mashup of Nuns' Island and parts of René-Lévesque Boulevard, so that the repeated mantra of échelle humaine was kind of a joke. Devimco knows what people want to hear – green spaces, sustainability, bike paths – but they could learn that just saying these phrases does not make it so.

Amusingly, another developer is annoyed at Devimco for blithely handwaving "his" part of the Peel Basin into its plans. It might be interesting if developer competition introduced more consultation and diversity into the process. posted at 13:39