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Article content The public will be able to learn more about plans for a proposed 25-storey office tower atop the Bay at 585 Ste-Catherine St. W. on Wednesday evening. The Office de consultation publique de Montréal (OCPM) is holding a virtual question-and-answer session on the real estate project at 7 p.m. You can join in via the OCPM’s website, Facebook page or YouTube channel. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Consultations start Wednesday on tower planned for the Bay Back to video The city of Montreal is required to hold public consultati...

Article content Montreal developer Brivia Group is betting big on a downtown revival. Not content with building what will be the city’s tallest residential structure on Phillips Square, Brivia is now planning to erect a 19-storey condominium tower on the site of the former Loews Theatre. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Brivia planning new 19-storey condo project on site of old Loews Theatre Back to video The project, located at Ste-Catherine and Mansfield streets, will probably cost about $200 million to build, Vincent Kou, Brivia’s vice-...

"When there is work outside the large metropolitan regions like Montreal and Quebec City — in Outaouais, in Abitibi, in Gaspésie — these companies take contracts there and, when they arrive, they bring the workers they know," says Éric Boisjoly, general manager of FTQ-Construction. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette Article content The FTQ and FTQ-Construction unions are asking the Quebec government to ensure that construction sites being set up in the province’s regions during the economic recovery will employ workers from those regions. The heads of the two unions, Daniel Boy...

Article content A report last week by the Urban Development Institute and Montréal Centre-Ville found 70 per cent of downtown employees were working from home more than three days a week during the fourth quarter of 2020. Two-thirds say they want to continue teleworking most of the time once the pandemic is over. The vacancy rate for downtown offices was 12.4 per cent at the end of 2020, up from 9.8 per cent six months earlier, and is expected to rise as leases expire. Hardest hit are the least expensive Class C buildings, where vacancies have risen to 20.3 per cent from 13.8 per cent in the...

Article content A 25-storey office tower will be built atop the 130-year old Bay store at 585 Ste-Catherine St. W., according to a proposal submitted to Montreal city council. The Hudson’s Bay Co., which owns the site, proposes to demolish a 1966 addition to the landmark store, which occupies the block bounded by Ste-Catherine, Union Ave., de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. and Aylmer St. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or 25-storey office tower planned atop Bay store in downtown Montreal Back to video The plans, on which city council is expected to vote...