428 Main Street West | 37.6m | 10 fl | Proposed
 

Anybody have information on this project?


http://horseshoerealestate.com/proje.../hamilton-main

Lamb owns the land. It's currently a car wash. Nothing currently planned for it yet.

So Lamb is working with Movengo on this project as well as on Television City. With all the gloss on Television City marketing it seems strange that Lamb would allow this amateur website by Movengo do the talking for 428 Main:

http://www.movengocorp.com/428-main-street-w.html

Brad Lamb doesn't even mention this project on his website. Back when the land purchase was made he talked of this project having 400 units, that rendering of a six floor low rise doesn't seem like a Lamb project.

Any thoughts?

Lamb has build midrises before. I would also hardly call that a render, more like an experiment in massing.

Parc (complete):
http://east55condos.ca/wp-content/up...TS_GALLERY.jpg

Brant Park (complete):
http://www.lambdevcorp.com/images/br...07-Cropped.jpg

Work Lofts (complete):
http://east55condos.ca/wp-content/up...AM_GALLERY.jpg

The Harlowe (currently under construction)
http://east55condos.ca/wp-content/up...E_EXTERIO1.jpg

I like the scale of that last one - it's intimidating, but in a good way.

Also like the second last one, we could use more geometric shapes in hamilton other than "square" or some other shape easily made in an cad program.

Our most recent data indicates he's planning to build 2 x 10 storey towers, for a total of 200 residential units, and a parking garage with 165 spaces.

Oh well, they can't all be high rises. :(

That's just what the site is zoned for, I posted about it a few years back...

Lamb already said the development he has planned for the site has 400 residential units, so he's most likely going to apply to have it re-zoned for two taller towers. Potentially two 20-storey towers.

Even at 10 storeys, it would be something that is much nicer to look at coming into Hamilton off the 403. That whole area needs some work. It's not the greatest entrance to a city on the planet...

Zizzo's Car Care & Mor has been fenced off with demolition signs.

Site owned by Brad Lamb, he's moving fast!

There's no zoning change/development applications submitted, those fences have been there for about a month now since the car wash stopped operating. They were most likely put up as a protection against liability given that its now an unmaintained lot, rather than for demolition.

The rendering on the Movengo site is not going to be 400 units as Lamb suggested he was doing. He will have to build higher if that's truly what he intends to do, and in doing so he will need more setback, which means buying some neighboring houses. Rob Golfi attempted to buy some of these houses acting as agent to Brad Lamb's group back in the spring BEFORE Lamb closed on the car wash sale.

Seems like this project is on hold until either they can acquire surrounding houses to build towers or just give up and build a 6 story L-shaped low rise. I feel like the former is more profitable and in that case this is not moving fast at all.

This project will be called, get this, Main

May I ask where you got this information?

A link in a previous post to the development site indicates it is Main by Lamb Development Corporation

I actually posted that link, but that website isn't very credible. I'm just wondering if davidcappi is seeing that name somewhere else.

https://truecondos.com/hamilton-rising-brad-lamb/

He mentions it in this interview! There are some neat nuggets of info in this podcast. He talks tv city and other Hamilton projects. Hamilton topics start at around 43:00.

Interesting things; in addition to the two midrise projects on Main, he's got another 30 storey tower in the works downtown somewhere. He also mentions that the two TV city towers will go up at the same time instead of in two phases as previously planned. Definitely worth a listen.

Wow... Must be selling TV City pretty damn well then. Good work Brad Lamb.

Interesting in podcast - if 40 storey tower 1 is basically sold out and he only gets 2x30 then suspect he would have 1/3rd of tower 2 sold out (less of course those that walked away who purchaesd from 31-40). Also reference made to what must be the Hamilton (Eaton) Centre - wonder if legal mess cleaned up on that one.

Wow...interesting interview.

He mentions the two short projects on Main West, another 30-storey tower downtown and then a 'gigantic' site downtown where his ultimate hope is a large hotel, a large rental tower, a large condo tower and tons of good retail. Would love to know where that huge site is, and the 30-storey tower site is. $1.4 billion in development plans..... imagine we had a city council that actually wanted investment? We should be parading in the streets...instead we'll have to fight to allow the investment to actually happen.

82 Queen St North would likely be the 30 story tower and the 'gigantic site' would be Hamilton City Centre

https://www.thepublicrecord.ca/2018/...gone-sideways/

I doubt he'd get 30 storeys on Queen N....
Didn't he say that the 30-storey tower is going to be called 'The Main'? That would indicate it's on Main St, no?

Didn't realize he owned 82 Queen North...

This is an area that isn't right quite in city core proper, but still a 5 minute walk from it. This is a smart lot to develop, IMO.

He said the two on main would be midrises with the 428 main site being called The Main and having 300 units, which seems like a lot for a mid rise,no? Maybe he intends to buy more property around the Queen site.

Any idea when we'll see proposals or renders for Lambs Hamilton properties beyond tv city?

He submitted a pair of preliminary renders for 428 and 392 Main Street West back in September as part of Formal Consultations. Both were 10 storey mid-rises.

I may be getting prematurely excited but some time in the last 1-2 weeks I saw some machinery on-site - a backhoe and a skid steer loader I think? They aren't there anymore but pilons are all over the site

Only thing I can find about this is an old massing render and a seemingly more recent render that is finished and taller.

https://i.imgur.com/REbOlS7.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/0XYq1a0.png

Anyone know what the status of Brad Lamb's property on Main St W? There were plans for a building at the former carwash, but the owner of the house behind was not selling. The designs put forward were 'L' shaped to accommodate the holdout. The guy was a bit of a hoarder. He had cars, boats and all sorts of crap on the property and would often sit there for hours drinking beer and stare at the empty lot in front of him. I noticed a sold sign last week on his lot and all the crap has been carted away.

There was a crew there doing drilling for ground sampling.

Interesting. Lamb must be getting going again on this one now that Television City has finally proven successful.

From Forge and Foster

means we will likely see some activity here finally again.

I just hope to go it includes some retail...

They’re not wasting any time here, as of 1:30 today there was a soil tester at work on site. Sorry, no photo as I was on the bus.

Very exciting! Love these little midrises go in along this strip

Still soil testing today. Happened to drive past.

They've put up pylons around the site. Seems like they might be preparing to put up hoarding.

A fence is now going up around the site.

Asphalt dug up.

https://i.imgur.com/7xEqXV3h.jpeg

Wow things are happening fast here. There's almost no information online about this one unfortunately.

I would think that this lot will stay dormant for a long period since the owner is literally installing a barbed wire fence. That is not the sign of imminent construction.

If that's the case, why bother ripping up the parking lot? I suspect something is actually happening here. Some sort of preconstruction preparation.

Preventative action against those uninvited!

There's nothing there though. Just a big empty space. :shrug:

there are no development applications here so construction won't be starting any time soon. I assume they are simply cleaning the site up a bit, for whatever reason. That fence looks fairly permanent.

Maybe they do want to minimize the risk of a "tent city" here as well, then. Though it's a very visible lot and the tents have moved to more discrete locations.

Should be a relatively easy application, and I can see Lamb following the suit of other developers by just prepping the site to give the impression he is ready to go whenever the city gives approval. The fence is probably a preventative measure against intrusions, yes, and also to dismiss city concerns that they will actually start without any permits.

There's definitely something more substantial happening here than just ripping up the parking lot. I drive by pretty much everyday and there's plenty of activity. One area they even seem to be digging below grade level.

I've reached out to staff to ask if there are any formal plans here that haven't been updated to the City's site.

Thanks! Would be a nice surprise if this one was actually starting construction somehow...