There's already so much parkland on the other side of the Library, I'd rather buildings with retail to make it a more continuous strip to the CBD.

The map is old yes, but it indicates Regional Group owns that land. I verified the city's property tax records, and the parcels are all still owned by Regional Group except for that one, owned by Brigil.

The city does own a bit more than that, although I'm not sure what they intend to do with it in the long term. There's a map of the ownership on the website: All the privately owned parcels belong to Regional Group, except the curved one along Vanier, which belongs to Gilles Desjardins. Of...

The contrast between this one and Éléonore is stark

It's the whole convent, you can see the size (2.51 hectares) matches the one on the NCC webpage for the convent. Also the empty land is North and South, not East😄 The area is actually zoned for 3... it's ridiculous. They'll have to apply for a change no matter what (or not, it's not like the...

Brigil is submitting a request to build the taller one, while the smaller one is what they can build that was already approved.

Brigil is always quite slow with project starts, but they get there eventually. Canevas was in the "any day now" phase for a few years.

It's a much needed project, I can't wait to see it go up! I do wonder what's better tho, living right next to school in an old building, or having to walk all the way up the hill to get anywhere, but staying in an old building.

The Gatineau tower was shut down by the city years ago, they would have to get a huge exemption for it to go ahead. In the last years they've focused on Canevas, but they did mention they would come up with a new project for their downtown land.

As far as I know, there's no zoning rule that forces/encourages podiums, so developers maximize their lots.

You have the wrong orientation, the tower portion is along Leduc, so the South face is quite slim.

When something is built within zoning they don't need to show much to the public. Groupe Heafey sidestepped a lot of the regular process by getting the zoning for the entire site updated before starting to develop it. They still have a large parcel across rue Saint-Rédempteur to redevelop, so...

According to previous presentations, trains would either share lanes with cars or replace them entirely,

Unfortunately, just a new Kia dealership.

The SUDD is recommending against the demolition of one of the buildings (35-37 rue Kent), I hope the developer can work around it (or convince Council to approve the demolition).