De la Commune Service Yard Building #0669-987 De la Commune Street - Ville-Marie borough, H3C 4H5 Montréal, Province of Québec, Canada De la Commune Service Yard, the proposed site, is located in the Cité du Multimédia adjacent to the west end of Old Montréal. The Cité du Multimédia is a neighborhood located between Old Montréal, Griffintown and downtown Montréal. It is the result of a vast real estate project launched by the government of Québec in the late 1990s, which redeveloped abandoned nineteenthcentury industrial buildings into a business cluster for information technology companies. three bus lines running in the area. The site is also linked to Montréal s bike path network. The site offers an attractive opportunity for a free program, including the possibility to develop a mixed-use project (allowed uses are residential, commercial, industrial and institutional ones). This site consists of a 9 910,5 m² lot, currently occupied by a satellite service yard. It enjoys exceptional exposure, being located at the entrance to the City via the Bonaventure highway. It is also easily accessible by public transit, with two metro stations located less than 1.2 km away and Expected program: Free program including the possibility to develop a mixed-use project (mixed zoning allowing residential, commercial and industrial). The project will include a salt distribution point (silo type) for City of Montreal salt trucks and a space that can accommodate at least three charging stations for electric vehicles. Owner: The City of Montréal Plot area: 9,910.5 m² / 106,675 sq. ft. Type of property transfer intended: Sale
Presentation of the site and expectations for its redevelopment The site is located in the Cité du Multimédia adjacent to the west end of Old Montréal. It enjoys exceptional exposure, being located at the entrance to the City via the Bonaventure expressway. The Cité du Multimédia is a neighbourhood located between Old Montréal, Griffintown and Downtown Montréal. The site is easily accessible by public transit. Two metro stations are located less than 1.2 km away and three bus lines run in the area. The site is also linked to Montréal s bike path network, connecting to public transit systems, to Vieux-Montréal and to downtown. The current plans for the Réseau express métropolitain (REM) light rail project incorporates a potential addition of an underground station within the areas of Pointe St-Charles and Griffintown. The timeline indicates that the first antenna of the REM will be operational by the summer of 2021. The property is currently occupied by a satellite service yard for the Ville-Marie borough, including some 1,590 m² of rental area as well as a two-storey main building (a footprint of about 1,125 m²). A site plan for the current land occupation and floor plans for the two storeys of the building will be available for reference in the Dataroom. The gas station will be relocated by the City to another site of the City; it does not need to be included in the C40 Reinventing Montréal project (the Project). The Project must include a salt distribution system (silo type) for City trucks with a minimum capacity of 100 tonnes. This system can be integrated into a building but must be easily accessible from the public road. The site must also be the host of a laboratory station to test ultra-fast charging technologies for various types of electric vehicles (cars, trucks, buses, etc.), that includes three to five charging stations. When built, these spaces will be transferred to the City as a right of superficies (for more information, see: Art. 1110 of CCQ 1991 Civil Code of Québec). The technical and functional program ( programme fonctionnel et technique, in french or PFT) specific to the spaces listed above (spaces that will be the City s property), will be provided to the bidder teams selected for the phase 2, the Call for projects.
Specific planning rules and regulations regarding the development of the site CADASTRAL LOT NUMBER 5 521 975 USED M.7C HEIGHT MIN. / MAX. (meters) 11 / 30 EXTRA HEIGHT (meters) 80 C.O.S MIN. / MAX. 0 / 9 affordable housing in new residential projects which requires that all projects with more than 100 units include 15% social housing units and 15% affordable units. Further details are available online: http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid= 9437,121219636&_dad=portal&_schema=POR TAL The selected bidder teams for the final phase (phase 2, the Call for projects) will have to provide the signed order of intent using the City of Montréal s template available in the Dataroom. The latter sets out the Purchaser s obligations, such as the maximum construction time for the Project starting from the date of signature of the deed of sale, an option to cancel if the Buyer does not fulfil their obligations, a guarantee (letter of guarantee), and so forth. The City will set up a Selection Committee (Jury) which may decide to retain up to 4 finalist teams at the end of phase 1, the Call for Interests, which will continue in phase 2, the Call for projects. Eventually, the jury will select the winning project (the Laureate). The site is designated as lot 5 521 975 of the Québec Land Register and belongs to the City of Montréal with full rights. The lot has been made up of the following part lots: Part 1483, Part 1484, Part 1502, Part 1503, Part 1505 and Part 1506. The City has acquired these properties by expropriation. M.7C zoning allows for residential, commercial, industrial community equipment tending to public facilities and institutional uses. The zoning profile with regulatory parameters will be available in the Dataroom and on the urban planning bylaw s website: http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid= 7317,102539873&_dad=portal&_schema=POR TAL The Laureate must hire a notary to write a draft deed of sale, using the City s template when they have carried out their due diligence (see Dataroom for template). This draft deed of sale, once approved by the City s representatives and those of the Laureate, will be presented to the appropriate authorities at the City for approval. A delay of about two-month will then be required to obtain the sale resolution. Then, the deed of sale can then be signed. The acting notary is at the acquirer s cost. The City of Montréal plans to sell the property to the Laureate of the Call for project at its fair market value according to the Project, which will be validated by an expert (chartered appraiser) from the City. The sale of the site must include a commitment from the Laureate to sell the spaces dedicated to the City in the form of superficies (surface rights see section above: Presentation of the site and expectations for its redevelopment ). For residential usages, the City of Montréal adopted its strategy for the inclusion of
The selling price of the site could be adjusted to take into account the value of the superficies (surface rights) transferred to the City. At the time of sale, the site will be encumbered with servitudes for a right of ways, a nonconstruction and the maintenance for a multifunctional path. This path will be 10 m wide and approximately 208 m long, all along the Bonaventure Expressway. This will be defined on a specific volume (to be defined according to the variety of planted trees and the intact conservation of the properties of the retaining wall of the Bonaventure Expressway). In addition, if the wining Project did not represent a full-capacity construction permitted by the zoning, a servitude of limitation of a more dense and/or higher construction would be created in order to be able to sell the site at the market value according to the Project. In the event of a conflict of interpretation between the English and French versions of any Reinventing Cities Montréal document, the French version will take precedence. Similarly, if there is a conflict of interpretation between the Reinventing Cities General Regulations and the SSR, the SSR will take precedence. The winning project must commit to the City of Montréal s Contract Management Policy, which is available in the Dataroom. Specific climate or environmental issues regarding the development of the site The vulnerability analysis carried out as part of the Climate Change Adaptation Plan for the Montréal Urban Agglomeration 2015-2020 that takes account the six climate hazards identified for the island of Montréal (higher average temperatures, heavy rainfalls, heat waves, destructive storms, droughts and river floods), revealed that the area where the site is located presents no major vulnerabilities. The site is located close to the sampling station #103 of the Réseau de surveillance de la qualité de l air (air quality monitoring network). According to the 2016 environmental report on air quality in Montréal, the air quality index for the area is generally good. In 2016, only four days of poor air quality were recorded. However, the site is located on a contaminated lot which is subject to the Land Protection and Rehabilitation Regulation under Québec s Environment Quality Act. Soil characterization studies were carried out and can be provided to the bidder teams selected for the 2 nd phase, the Call for projects, upon request. The property has been home to many activities that may have had an impact on the quality of the soil and groundwater. Before the Bonaventure highway was built, this was an industrial area. Activities such as foundries, a coking plant, and manufacturing of metal objects and chemical products took place on the site or nearby. The site is currently occupied by a satellite service yard operated by the Ville-Marie borough. A number of regulatory requirements apply since the site is subject to the Land Protection and Rehabilitation Regulation. Among these requirements, a characterization studies must be carried out, attested to by experts recognized by the Ministère du Développement durable, de l Environnement et de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques (MDDELCC) (Quebec ministry of sustainable development, environment and the fight against climate change). A contamination notice must be registered, a rehabilitation plan must be approved by the appropriate authorities, and post-rehabilitation monitoring must be performed. The property is also a recorded archaeological site (in its entirety) according to the archaeological heritage map produced by the City of Montréal s Service de la mise
en valeur du territoire (land development service). Some archaeological interventions have occurred on site, and several archaeological expert reports extracts are available in the Dataroom. The vestiges will have to stay in situ and protected. The Laureate will be responsible for carrying out at his own expense the additional expertise required.