Solar panels, rooftop gardens on Candiac housing development will pay for themselves: developer

In what’s being called the first project of its kind in Quebec, a new housing development in Candiac is being equipped with rooftop gardens and solar panels that, the developer says, will generate a profit for residents.
The project consists of 148 new townhouses. Half of them will have rooftop solar panels, the other half will get rooftop gardens.
All the produce grown in the rooftop gardens will be organic, said Nicolas Ste-Marie, the president of La Shop Agricole, the company that