Glenview Homes and Taggart Realty Management want to build a 27-storey tower with 295 apartment units and 1,300 square feet of ground-floor retail space.
Proposal would see owners of residential properties that are vacant more than 184 days a year pay a one per cent tax tacked onto their annual property tax bill.
Marc Varadi's firm, Rimap Development, has a growing portfolio of projects in the capital that also includes another downtown hotel and an apartment highrise in Centretown.
Montreal's Rimap Development says it wants to convert the heritage building at 126 York St. into a 214-suite hotel and build a highrise with 280 apartment units beside it.
Local builders started work on 588 new units on the Quebec side of the river last month, accounting for the lion’s share of the year-over-year growth across the region.
Ottawa-based company said its funds from operations – a key cash-flow metric for REITs – rose nearly 12 per cent compared with the first quarter of 2020 to $16.2 million.Â