Henry Aubin cites six concerns as the Griffintown project barrels towards approval at Monday’s Montreal City Council Meeting:
- The project still centres around a massive shopping complex.
- The project will compete with several other commercial projects, such as Place Viger.
- The approval process for the project has been authoritarian, not the least of which was saving the public consultations for the end of the approval process.
- “Fourth, quite aside from democratic process, the urban planning has been amateurish.”
- The quality of the building design still remains a huge unknown.
- Aubin’s final concern, “…After spending so much money on green projects, infrastructure and everything else, can Devimco make a go of its mega-retail project? Plenty of ambitious real-estate schemes have gone unfinished – UQAM’s eight-storey skeleton by the Voyageur terminal being only the latest.”
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