Quartier Concordia

[mtlurb]

Quartier Concordia

Quartier Concordia will transform the Sir George Williams campus from a collection of scattered buildings into a welcoming and cohesive urban campus in the area bordered generally by Sherbrooke, Guy, René-Lévesque, and Bishop.
The goals of the Quartier Concordia project include improving the use of outdoor spaces, stimulating street life, and providing respite for the Concordia community and the public. The project will optimize vehicular and bicycle traffic as well as pedestrian flow, facilitate movement between campus buildings, and ensure the safe interaction of vehicles and pedestrians. Quartier Concordia will also maintain a welcoming environment for the Concordia community and the public, highlight landmarks, improve the use of space, promote the display of artwork and create a distinct campus environment within the downtown core.
The project will be carried out over several years by Groupe Cardinal Hardy and in conjunction with the City of Montreal.

Facts:

• A multi-year project
• Landscape architect: Groupe Cardinal Hardy
• Location: The area bordered by Sherbrooke, Guy, René-Lévesque, and Bishop
• The project will promote a distinct, welcoming, and efficient downtown campus

[jesseps]

Really good idea

[MTLskyline]

So many buildings worth demolishing

[mtlurb]

ahahahaha where to start !?!?!

[Habsfan]

ahahahaha where to start !?!?!

the henry hall building!

[Ashok]

Dont know how to quote but this was in response to habfans - to demo the hall building.

No way! I actually like the Hall building, it finds it adds charm to the area and Concordia. They do need to do a major clean up of the building.

What would be nice if they get someone to re-program the elevators. You stand on the first floor, and there is already an elevator at the first floor. You press to go up, and it doesn't open. It waits for the other elevator, 12 floors down to come back down. WTF!!!??

[mtlurb]

[Alexcaban]

Does anyone know when the face lift of this building will start?

[AintheUK]

Does anyone know when the face lift of this building will start?

That building right now is currently the JSMB. Once the new JMSB opens up (hopefully in January) and give everyone the chance to move everything from one building to the other , than they will start on the face lift for that one. If they start it next summer, that would be pretty good.

[Kotar]

That building right now is currently the JSMB. Once the new JMSB opens up (hopefully in January) and give everyone the chance to move everything from one building to the other , than they will start on the face lift for that one. If they start it next summer, that would be pretty good.

The JMSB building is set to open in the fall.

Also, has anyone else seen the new street lights along de Maisonneuve between Peel and Guy. They replaced the old sodium lights, orange, with LEDs, white light. The new post also have a light over the sidewalk in addition to the usual one over the street, makes for a nice effect at night.