The mayor has rejected the condo plan that would’ve turned the old Marianopolis site on Mount Royal into a lavish condo development. There may be a development of the existing buildings but no new buildings can be added.
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Five classic Montreal signs have found a permanent home at Concordia’s Loyola campus.
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I’m finding that the early spring has brought out more lilacs than ever, and back alleys can be flooded with scent, especially from the white ones. Above: a double white lilac growing just north of Crémazie in southern Ahuntsic. -
Twelve years, university pavilions, 1300 new homes and 4 acres of parkland: the Université de Montréal unveiled its scheme for the Outremont railyard last night, although like many other projects it relies heavily on hopes of private investment.
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A brief piece here says that Richard Bergeron has promised there will be no Dalhousie bus corridor as has been bandied about in the dossier on redoing the Bonaventure autoroute. I hope he’s right but I’m not sure he’s in a position to make a unilateral promise on the issue.
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Mile End venue the Green Room will be closed due to the electrical fire that broke out Sunday morning. According to Hour, it wasn’t doing too well and their article makes it sound even more like it might not reopen.
In other venue news, Place des Arts is finding that being chronically in the midst of a construction zone is not good for business; also a coalition of smaller venues is fighting a trend for heavy postering fines which tends to drive them out of business.
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The airing-out of the city’s relationship with private security firm BCIA was originally meant to be public, but will now be held behind closed doors. La Presse has also found that public money was invested in the business without the usual verification of its profitability; the business, in rocky shape, did not find a buyer this week. Above: a BCIA car spotted in a gas station on Crémazie. It looks like a police car, and its driver, although a smaller man than most cops, was wearing a bulletproof vest. -
Macleans has some ratings of Canadian cities out, and they ask why Montreal ranks so low in our usage of the cultural resources available to us.
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Nice Alanah Heffez piece on Sentier Urbain, a group that focuses community action on gardening and greening in some of the more intensively paved parts of town.
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The cost of renovating the cross on Mount Royal continues to balloon. Maybe it’s time we did talk about taking it down, or (since we’re spending all this money anyway) replacing it with something shiny but nonsectarian.