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You can find different types of housing styles in Montreal but it’s not the same distribution you find in Calgary. If you want an 1600 sq ft, two-story townhouse with a small yard for a garden and not having anybody above you in inner city Montreal there aren’t very many. Those that are...

I would respectfully disagree. I don’t really like the typology. At least in the case of the Montreal apartments, the three story, four story apartments in Montreal are still really just apartments. They’re not the row home style builds that we see here in Calgary with multi levels and a yard.

It’s a fair point about the economics, I get that in the city proper of Montreal there wouldn’t really be a reason to build a traditional row home. The problem with that stats Canada number is they have one number for everything under five stories. About 90% of those low rises are three story...

From what I’ve seen, all the apartment builds are either four or five story, low rise or high rises and almost virtually no row no homes and very few of the smaller multi-plex builds.

That’s the story of the area surrounding Chinook centre. There’s a lot of development, all of it nondescript, but I guess we have to start somewhere.

Montreal’s an interesting case. Not much in the way of single-family homes, duplex, or row homes. Apartments are great, but as a city, I’d rather aspire to seeing missing more middle type homes and other housing choices.

Nothing fancy, but great to see Heritage station get some love with two nearby projects u/c

Also the intersection where the Shell’s angels hang out.

I would say identity politics are a factor more now than in recent years. Harris may or may not have been a great politician, but the fact that Trump actually got voted in a second time after some of the fiasco‘s from his first term, including the Jan 6th event tells me the Democrats need to...

Sadly, the vibe around d downtown has changed negatively in the past couple of years. Thankfully high growth in DT and Beltline has offset the negative, but if the area stopped growing it could be vulnerable to a downward slide. My brother was living in the Beltline in the Underwood tower with...

The park looks busy. They’ve done a good job putting together a nice suburban area with with an urban feel. Reminds me a lot of U/D

Nice to see some change happening in that part of the city. Now with 17th straight into the Stampede grounds I bet we’ll see more.

I don’t mind the quirkiness of this one.

Darn. I always look forward to the updates.

I agree. I was recently in NYC for a couple of weeks. I spent a lot of time in Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn and I would estimate about 90% of buildings built from the 60’s onward are mediocre or plain ugly, but with the walkable streets and business you don’t really notice the buildings...