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stringent construction management standards
such as the use of materials with high recycled
content and the movement of construction
waste to recycling depots.
Proment Corporation has meticulously craft-
ed a world-class waterfront neighbourhood
which melds nature with structure and has ca-
tered to the geographic position of the space.
“Montreal is an island, and nowhere do you
have a great waterfront experience. Pointe-
Nord wanted to change this and provide the
first real waterfront community where you
feel the river everywhere in the neighbour-
hood,” says Ilan. The vision behind the project
“was to create a charming, European-inspired
neighbourhood where you walk down the
mainstream and you feel at home, that people
know you and you feel welcome.” This is un-
doubtedly carried out through Montreal’s first
waterfront restaurant, Les Enfants Terribles,
as well as the opening of Mamie Clafoutis, a
French home-style bakery that adds ingenuity
to the community and sponsors a communal
atmosphere.
Within the neighbourhood exists Evolo build-
ings that offer inhabitants a healthy quality of
life and are synchronized with Pointe-Nord’s
ecological principles. The first of the two
