A condo building, apartment and a high-end hotel could form part of the new skyline in the ageing industrial and residential neighbourhood of Côte-des-Neiges.
A commercial development company has plans to build the new residential/commercial project at the site of the old Armstrong floor tiling manufacturing plant on Decarie Boulevard, south of Jean-Talon Avenue.
The proposal would take up more than 32,000 square metres of land – making it larger than downtown Montreal’s Eaton Centre.
“A couple of years from now, this is going to be a green neighbourhood with good housing,” Snowdon City Councillor Marvin Rotrand told Global News.
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He said the project is the latest in the ongoing efforts to revitalize the working class district.
Nearby, a 4,000 housing unit project called The Triangle is already well underway.
Rotrand is hoping a skywalk could be built over nearby CP railroad tracks leading to the nearby Namur Metro station, but there are no plans to build a new AMT train station in the area, despite the Saint-Jérôme line running directly through the area.
“The successor organization to the AMT is probably going to be looking at where they’re going to build ridership,” he isa.d
“The suburban trains have more potential in my estimation than they’re doing right now.”
The project still hasn’t bee formally introduced at the Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough council.
The old plant would have to be leveled and the land would need to be decontaminated before any work can begin.
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