I'm not sure if someone posted this already. I couldn't see it going back.

Design Review Panel - 213 King Street West submission [pdf]

https://www.hamilton.ca/sites/defaul...submission.pdf

This one fits the shape of the lot. There was some discussion about that re: the Platinum condo building.

And it's interesting that they note the escarpment elevation and the height limit, but it doesn't seem to apply to the mechanical penthouse? (total height listed a 93.5m, page 113 of the package). Not that I'm complaining, but seems like there's a bit of a loophole in the city's limit unless Vrancor is just testing them by squeezing in an extra floor.

100% it’s testing the city.

Not a fan of the residential to hotel change... Doubling retail is welcome though

More hotels downtown is excellent news to me. We have no shortage of residential proposals downtown right now.

Please please please bring back at least a 4 star hotel to hamilton... soon embarrassing when we have out of town guests and their options are Sheraton and Hilton express lol

Perhaps the article was mistaken and it has actually been converted to all residential? That generally makes more sense to me than a massive, 300+ room hotel.

The description on the development applications tracker has switched to:

compared to before:

Updated render

https://i.imgur.com/EOitQBn.jpeg

100% agree.

If this city every wants to be taken seriously we need less QEW/Mississauga/Oakville border crappy hotel clusters and more quality accommodations.

With the arena, convention centre, concert hall and city centre renovations happening in the next 5-10 years (some sooner than others), having two and three star lodgings is pretty small town garbage.

Vrancich has the two-three star market covered, I guess he's going for the monopoly on average hotels.

I think there is still a Hyatt to be built in the Mac Inno Park. Is that something of better quality perhaps?

Had more hoped for this render to becom reality

Hyatt announced a big expansion in Ontario a few years ago and most were cancelled or at least severely stalled with COVID. Their downtown Toronto is the only hotel still going ahead, the Niagara Falls location was cut mid-construction and McMaster has long stalled with no word of construction start.

The McMaster hotel has been pulled from Hyatt's website, though Niagara Falls is still there despite being stalled in construction for like 2 years now:

https://www.hyatt.com/development/explore-hotels/

the planned brand for McMaster, Hyatt House, is a 3-star long-term-stay brand anyway, so still not a 4-star brand.

Honestly I don't think Hamilton has the market for a 4-star hotel yet. Getting more 3-star hotels downtown is the best we are going to get for a while, I think. Even the hotel getting built at Queen and King right now is a Hampton, Hilton's lowest tier hotel brand. It's still 3-stars, just on the low end of that rank.

I can picture the latest proposal as a Doubletree by Hilton.

This also is another improvement. We really do need a solid 4 star hotel and maybe a 5 star boutique hotel especially with all the film production in the city now. Stars and film execs need better options than what currently exists.

I actually think the current proposal looks way better. Than green thing looks kinda tacky.

I noticed they ripped up the parking lot today. Could construction be starting on this one??

No permits as of yet, not sure either why they're ripping up the asphalt. Maybe the digger being parked for so long it ruined the asphalt?

I don't think so, they removed the entire surface. Strange.

aren't they using this for construction staging for the McMaster graduate student residence? It may be related to that..

Regarding permits though, we all know that Vranich has been known to do things without them before, so that doesn't really mean anything.