Wooooow is right!! Fantastic news and it's about damn time!
We've been gushing over TNS and SkyCity getting built along Graham. This will be another huge piece to that puzzle. Adding 40 storeys of people, living right at Portage and Main. Fantastic. I almost prefer this to an office tower. But of course all the business that goes with an office tower would be better.
This is the original plan. The second tower actually looks quite a big larger (floor plates) than the current tower. They could have a similar tower, and not a skinny version, by putting a large number of units on the same floor. SkyCity has 10 units per floor. Maybe this one has 16 or something. Now for a 40-storey tower with 16 units per floor is a lot of people.
I sure hope something goes in to fill the gap between towers above street level. That was supposed to be the original hotel?
Portage and Main - The Plan by
Christian, on Flickr