Downtown Montreal Strategy

To improve the coherence of its actions, the City of Montreal has set up the Downtown Project Office to prepare and implement a Downtown development strategy.

The area covered by the study extends over the entire Ville-Marie Borough, as well as the opportunity areas of Griffintown and du Havre in the southwest, Milton Parc and Hôtel-Dieu in the Plateau-Mont-Royal, and the banks of the St. Lawrence east of the Canadian Pacific railway tracks in Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. The study consisted in identifying, increasing, and enhancing the potential for residential, commercial and office functions by emphasizing the principles of “live-work-play”. The resulting proposals aimed to systematize an integrated planning of the Downtown area and rationalize the investments made.
To this end, BC2 carried out a document review and a complete analysis of the territory and drew up an overall portrait integrating all the markets by function as well as theme: spatial planning, urban design, environment, heritage, safety, sustainable mobility, governance over a fifteen-year horizon. The elaboration of the vision for a future made it possible, in a second phase, to propose concrete and targeted measures aligned to strategic development orientations.

Thanks to its interdisciplinary approach, the document produced provided a clear understanding of the medium- and long-term planning issues.

Data sheet

Client

Arrondissement Ville-Marie

Location

Arrondissement Ville-Marie

Year of execution

2015-2016

Cost

143 k$