Massive new housing projects coming to Côte-des-Neiges-NDG

MONTREAL — A whole new look is coming to an old industrial and commercial district of Côte-des-Neiges-NDG.

City officials signed off on $60 million worth of infrastructure projects as part of a massive revitalization plan for an area south of the Metropolitan expressway and east of Decarie.

The district, known as Le Triangle, is bordered by Mountain Sights Avenue, rue de la Savane, Victoria Avenue and CP railroad tracks.

Up to 4,000 housing projects could eventually be built.

Already, seven condo projects are in the works that will bring include 1,589 units.

Sidewalks will be widened, new sewage lines built and rainwater retention basins added underground.

”All of which is destined to make the triangle a comfortable, livable, green neighbourhood,” Russell Copeman, Côte-des-Neiges-NDG borough mayor Russell Copeman said at a Thursday morning news conference.

There is also a plan to build a new public park in the district but to do so the borough needs to buy the right of way on land from private owners.

”If we succeed in acquiring the land this year it will not take ten years to do a park,” Copeman said.

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Building four thousand new housing units district could also put on a strain on the road network.

The new homes will add more cars to an area that is already heavily congested with traffic.

But the city councillor representing this district isn’t concerned.

Marvin Rotrand welcomes the massive housing projects arguing it will counter the effects of urban sprawl.

”It’s main objective was to be a hedge against urban sprawl, to give people an option of living close to the centre of the island of Montreal and we’ve succeeded. A lot of residents come from places like Laval or Longueuil, or Dollard-des-Ormeaux. They’ve come back to the centre of the island,” he said.

The infrastructure work is scheduled to begin later this month and last three years.