In 1994, Bombardier Real Estate
Services launched the Bois-Franc housing project in Saint-Laurent: the residential development of a vast territory of more
than 20 million square feet, over
the land of the former Cartierville Airport. Bois-Franc aimed at
a distinctive, daring approach —
a variety of housing products
ranging from townhouses, semi-detached and single-family homes to
condominiums — grouped around squares and piazzettas that stood
out from the competition for their avant-garde added values: 1- or 2-car garages for each house, located under the houses and accessible
from the side, for a more esthetic, unobstructed look to the front of
the buildings; clay brick construction on all sides; underground electrical wiring and cables; various buildings offering different models, yet
within a spirit of complementarity and diversity, responding to clients’
ever-changing tastes, needs and tendencies!
In 2007, after two distinctive phases, Bois-Franc boasts over 2,650
homes, mostly built by Groupe Maltais, Groupe Montclair and Groupe
Sotramont. Over 8,000 residents of all age groups live in the housing
project, with daycare centres, and benefit from a vast, well-developed
territory, where 17% of the space has been kept GREEN and BLUE:
lakes, parks, pathways, a bridge, a gazebo, a waterfall, park benches... while here and there, fountains, outstanding landscaping and
floral arrangements as well as many trees, which have now reached
a substantial size.
A wide, east-west strip of greenery between Marcel-Laurin
and Cavendish will separate
the third phase from the two
previous ones. Over 31% of
its area has been reserved for
GREEN and BLUE spaces:
there will be 3 lakes, which
the birds and ducks have “adopted” for more than 5 years
now. Montclair and Sotramont
are the two groups of builders,
offering townhouses, semi-detached homes and condominiums. They
have already built and delivered over 1,600 homes in the Bois-Franc
development and the two Company owners are very active in their
respective builders’ association: Greg Galardo of Groupe Montclair is
President of the La Garantie des immeubles résidentiels of the APCHQ
(Association provinciale des constructeurs d’habitations du Québec), and
Marc-André Roy of Groupe Sotramont is President of the ACQ, in the
metropolitan region (Association des constructeurs du Québec).
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The new products of Groupe Montclair
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Already, some fifteen semi-detached homes in Place des
Outardes have been sold by
Groupe Montclair, which is also
offering two semi-detached models, while Groupe Sotramont
is offering its Villas des Équinoxes — a group of 4 semi-detached
homes, each spread out over 4 stories. Residents may now opt
for natural gas in Phase III.
It is expected that Phase III of Bois-Franc will add some 1,250 homes to
the 2,650 present ones, striking a chord in Bois-Franc’s slogan from its
very beginnings: A NEW QUALITY OF LIVING ENVIRONMENT!
Greg Galardo, President of
Groupe Montclair, one of the
builders in the Bois-Franc development, has been reappointed,
for a second term of office, as
President of the La Garantie des
immeubles résidentiels of the
Association provinciale des constructeurs d’habitations du Québec. Mr. Galardo is a member of
both the Board of Directors and
the Executive Committee of this
association.
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Bois-Franc
Owners’ Association |
Last September, A.N. (Fred) Corriveau, President
of Bombardier Real Estate Services, sent all residents a letter to invite them to join the Bois-Franc
Owners’ Association. This voluntary group will one
day be able to take charge of following up on Bois-Franc’s architectural servitude, to guarantee all
buyers that the living environment that has made
Bois-Franc a unique, distinctive housing development will be preserved.
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