213 King St W | 95 m | 30 fl | Under Construction
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1) Zero chance this happens
2) Makes 20/22 look uninspiring in comparison |
WOW - you never know. Prime spot for height
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YESSSSS! Is this fantasy of legit? Let's get the shovels in the ground lol. I just say tweak the podium somewhat to be more inviting and everything else is great! :yes:
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Ooo, that is a beauty, I hope its for real!
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This looks amazing but with the height restrictions, why bother proposing 38 fl?
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When you're as cuddled up with folks at City Hall as Vranich is, why not right? If anyone can get that height, he can. All the best to him!
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I hope Darko has the pull to get this one through.
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The city could.... Ya know, use his height push as a benefit. But our city is bad at doing business. Push for public parking, virtua car, cycle parking, and affordable housing units.
But no, let's just deny it, and get nothing out of it. |
If there's ever a site that that could handle a 35+ hi rise, it is here. Here's no single residential houses in the area, right next to the future B-Line LRT and all mostly retail/commercial buildings.
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So how much is the wager this is denied outright? I'd put $100 on it being denied.
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Why not be a little optimistic instead of assuming it'll be shot down?
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Didn't ol' Darko say he'd build as tall on that corner as the city will let him? Maybe he's just trying to find out.
I don't care for the glass colour (I'd prefer it match 20/22 George) but the overall shape is promising and I like that the balconies are inset or nearly flush with the corner. And the pointy roof is welcome too. I wonder if the tower will be mixed use, given the lack of balconies for the lower half? |
Wonder what the zoning already allows on the site - guess no such luck it has Stoney Creek Frances Street type! Sur hope Mac gets in gear on the residential tower just east and adjacent.
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That building would be all killer and not just filler!
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Every Vrancor proposal I've seen always throughout the years has green glass initially, but ultimately it changes.
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fantastic design....would be awesome to get something other than a flat roof skyline.
2 years ago this would have no problem passing city hall...in fact, it would have been praised. Sadly, the NIMBYs are in control now.... |
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Thorne will make it 6 floors with 2 parking per unit.
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Especially if it's all for nothing and he ends up settling for the new height limit, he has cost us developments like this one on the LRT route where it makes sense, at least until there's more out of town interest once it gets under construction. |
there was a time when this would've been on the cover of the Spec. LRTfan is right NIMBYs are in control now.
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https://i.imgur.com/VrOKGIC.jpg
source I wouldn't mind the colour if say this block had a bunch of these types of towers all different class colours - then it'd look kinda innovative. I am liking the roof, but this feels more like a fantasy design. We'll see what ACTUALLY gets built here. |
I was wondering why 20/22 George has the big blank wall. Now it makes complete sense.
Go Vrancor Go! |
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I can't imagine how certain people in Hamilton believe that every other huge successful progressive and prosperous city in the world is wrong but they are right .... Block development because it blocks the views and creates traffic .... And yet ...let's keep surface parking lots and vacant buildings because they are just the way things go around here and change is scary
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Surface parking lots are slowly becoming a thing of the past for Hamilton. The city has sold almost half a dozen lots in the downtown core and is making a conscious effort for garages(wheater publicly or privately owned). More city owned lots are to be deemed surplus in the future.
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I wouldn't mind the height limit as much if they had a height minimum as well. Forcing g development to conform to 4-20 storeys and a more European feel with designs that actually look good like the ones proposed in the Burlington thread with some colour and cool designs. But Hamilton would rather push for more suburbia in Elfrida.
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Hamilton's lower city has shrunk for 45 straight years....that is not Brad Lamb's fault, the DNA's fault or any other scapegoat group.... fault lies 110% with City Hall. We've had an anti-business, NDP-type crowd running this city forever and the results are plain as day to see. Every city on earth has small groups of whiny babies. Hamilton is one of the only ones who actually lets them run the show. There is zero leadership or vision at city hall. And until Hamiltonians stop pretending to be offended everytime someone points it out, it'll never change. |
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That's not what getting better means. It means both improving areas, which is love it or hate it, gentrification, AND doing something for the lower income people in this city. Hamilton would rather keep the city shitty, so they don't have to deal with underlying issues like homelessness, drug addiction, mental health and other ills of society that we refuse to acknowledge. Yet Everytime Malleum fixes something up, they praise it as bringing new life, while completely contradicting everything they said they stand for. Mealleum can fix things, but city hall also needs to realize that things don't get nicer without getting more expensive. Instead of approving things, they deny everything and are weirdly proud of it. The city has denied more condos downtown than they've approved in like 20 years. Hamilton's downtown desperately needs educated people to bring jobs, and continue the upward swing, but the city would rather deny it, than deal with the reality that they would need to actually improve housing for lower income individuals and transit, and bicycle lanes. Look at Cannon. The most used cycle track in the city is going to be closed from May - August for Cannon repaving to allow for cars to continue using it. Love it or hate it, the Cannon cycle track has been a complete success, and yet for the peak period they're just saying, "find another place to cycle". The cycle lanes is a vanity project for them, to put on econ dev ads rather than an actual piece of infrastructure. City Hall doesn't want change, it means having g to put in effort. |
EcDev is a disaster. I would like to call out the marketing dude. Nothing but fancy "unstoppable" ads, when it reality they stop everything.
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Wondering if anyone knows who owns the last corner on the block (south east) at George and Bay?
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Of course I could be wrong, and if so well that wall will just become a heavily graffiittied wall as it's perfect for taggers. Maybe they'll put a nice mural there or something. |
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I can't find out if McMaster actually owns the northerly lot at SW of King and Bay. No development application I can find. I wonder if both lots are privately owned and Mac is developing it as a tenant? According to that report, Leggat Investments owned 191 King and Oakland "6" Limited owned 22 Bay S. Maybe the same Leggat as behind the car dealerships? |
Werent the lots owned by HMP(so the Leggat connection makes sense) Thought Mac had bought them but cant find documentation.
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Dreaming optimistically that this happens. Tried to get a picture for how this area would be with Macs tower completed.
https://i.imgur.com/sScJ69J.jpg |
Alternatively, if City Hall enforces a 30-storey limit, probably something like this?
https://i.imgur.com/LAkR9Fu.jpg |
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it's nice to see different colours of glass though - and what a difference to the cityscape it shows.. quite the built up little block.. that convenience store looks so dinky now in comparison.. |
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And that lot with the Busybee corner store and the Tim Hortons really needs to be redeveloped! Anyone know if that may happen one day? |
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What ever happened to that fixture surplus store across the street(NE King and Caroline). There were plans to build a 20 story tower there? I'm guessing that died. |
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