A residential project in Old Montreal has been paused due to citizen concerns.<\/p>\n
The building which was\u00a0expected to be built at 810 Saint-Antoine Est street and consist of 653 units is currently on hold due to\u00a0its 18 story height.<\/p>\n
The developers had to request an exemption because the project is higher than the six floor height maximum permitted in the borough.<\/p>\n
Nearly 500 citizens had called for a referendum on the decision to move forward.<\/p>\n
At the Ville-Marie borough council meeting Tuesday, Claude Pinard, the president of the executive committee and a city councillor in Ville-Marie, said they would not be holding a referendum but the project would not go forward in its current format.<\/p>\n
He said the construction of new housing projects remains a priority but that citizens have spoken and they respect their choice.<\/p>\n
Pinard added that they will be discussing with Broccolini and Pur Immobilia, who are the developers, to see how the project could still move forward.<\/p>\n
In an email sent to CityNews Broccolini says they remain committed to delivering the project.<\/p>\n
\u201cBroccolini and PUR Immobilia are actively collaborating on next steps and remain committed to a constructive dialogue, with the objective of delivering a project of lasting value for the neighbourhood.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A residential project in Old Montreal has been paused due to citizen concerns. The building which was\u00a0expected to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-606200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}