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Originally Posted by kermitology
CMLC has done great work in the East Village.
CSEC wants to be a REIT - that will always be the rub on this project. |
You are correct that they have done great work in the past, including the Riverwalk, central library, Simmons Building revitalization among others. However, those projects were designed years ago and the team at CMLC has almost completely turned over since then.
Recent CMLC projects including the Platform parkade, BMO expansion, and the first incarnation of the arena project have been extremely weak from an urban design perspective. I think they were in over their head in managing a project of that scale.
Bringing in this CAA firm to PM seems like a major positive for the project - for both the City and CSEC.