Since last Tuesday’s press conference, there has been a spate of negative articles on the Griffintown project and the way the City is handling it. Here’s a roundup of those articles:
- Le luxe côtoiera le logement social dans Griffintown, La Presse, Eric Clement, April 16, 2008
La Presse’s Eric Clement tongue-in-cheek reporting on how Devimco is attempting to up the appeal of their project by promising luxury stores in the area. “Les ouvriers du vieux quartier irlandais de Griffintown, à Montréal, doivent se retourner dans leurs tombes: ce secteur jadis connu pour sa misère et les fumées noires de ses usines sera bientôt celui des boutiques de luxe de la métropole…” The Devimco wears Prada, indeed.
- Defeating immobilisme by city-hall dirigisme, The Gazette, Editorial, April 17, 2008
Editorial asks the city and Devimco why they are “paying no heed to earnest voices asking ‘why so big?’ or ‘why so fast?’”
- Griffintown: Don’t do it, The Gazette, Henry Aubin, April 17, 2008
Seven good reasons to shelve the city’s biggest private redevelopment project.
- Will politics doom Montreal’s Griffintown?, The Globe and Mail, Konrad Yakabuski, April 17, 2008
An article in which the journalist concludes, in homage to Joni Mitchell, “(Relative) paradise, 0. Parking lot, 1.”
- An area rich in history and ripe for rebuilding and Imagine a green Griffintown, two articles by Michelle Lalonde, The Gazette, April 19, 2008
- Feds show city how it’s done, The Gazette, Henry Aubin, April 19, 2008
Henry Aubin contrasts consultations on the Canada Post Land project with those of Griffintown.
