My involvement started with putting together a presentation with my friend and fellow Sud-Ouest resident and planning geek, Stephanie Troeth, which we gave at the SAT's first Pecha Kucha Night in September. At the time, we were operating on a good deal of hearsay and we assumed the project would take over the Canada Post site, which as we now know was mistaken (though we're keeping an eye on that as well.)

Chris and Judith Gobeil hosted the first proper Griffintown get-together two weeks prior to the one you attended; they're concerned as their place, a heritage townhouse which they've lovingly and carefully restored, sits literally in the shadow of one of the proposed megablocks and various shadowy people kept trying to offer them money to buy them out. Besides the threat of expropriation, their concern was more to try to preserve the old Horse Palace as part of a Griffintown Museum similar to the Ecomusée du Fier Monde. As they described it to me, there would be "more than a lame series of laminated posters"; i.e. changing exhibits as well as Maison de la Culture-style performance and gallery spaces.

Thanks again for the coverage!