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By Joel Ceausu<\/b>
www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The announcement last week of a planned mega mall at the junction of Highways 15 and the 40 elicited excitement from some quarters, concern from others. The notion of a 3 million sq.ft. outdoor mall in the vicinity of Rockland Shopping Centre and March\u00e9 Centrale is big news, even as multiple retailers are shuttering their operations. <\/p>\n

For the Town of Mont Royal (TMR), it\u2019s big news with big commercial revenues but for the project\u2019s neighbours it\u2019s not such a rosy picture. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis project is planned in what is already a very heavily congested area,\u201d says C\u00f4te des Neiges\u2013Notre Dame de Grace Borough Mayor Russell Copeman Monday night. Throw in the Hippodrome development and its 3500-5000 housing units and it makes for even more traffic headaches. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe D\u00e9carie and Jean-Talon intersection is one of the busiest in the city\u201d said Copeman, the same with Royalmount and D\u00e9carie. His concerns were echoed by Snowdon councillor Marvin Rotrand and N.D.G. councillor Peter McQueen. <\/p>\n

\u201cI worry about the impact on local arteries like Queen Mary, Sherbrooke, Monkland and Victoria,\u201d said Rotrand, adding that a care-focused mega project in an already congested sector \u201cgoes completely against our urban plan.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cClearly this project would stimulate a huge amount of traffic and will require a massive rebuild of overpasses which will be very expensive for the public.\u201d Although on TMR territory, says McQueen, the project could have enormous effect on CDN-NDG, including D\u00e9cor D\u00e9carie, C\u00f4te des Neiges Plaza  and all the merchants on all the commercial streets in the borough.<\/p>\n

McQueen said he was glad to hear Rotrand and Copeman speak out on the project and said he is very concerned \u201cthat it\u2019s been linked with the Cavendish-Royalmount question. This is a definitive threat to our commercial streets,\u201d he said, adding that he would seek a new vote on the Cavendish project at council in light of this proposal. <\/p>\n

As for Rotrand, whose Snowdon district is adjacent to the proposed site, he says that CDN-NDG should not make it easier for the project to harm its interests. \u201cThis borough\u201d he insisted, \u201cshould not cooperate.\u201d
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