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Originally Posted by buzzg
Wow, stunning – absolutely love it. Will be a signature hotel for them, and the city. Knew 138 couldn't support it on its own, and this explains the excavation of the small parking space behind the building.
It will almost force Fairmont's hand to do something, because even though they in theory go after a different demographic – it's gonna be a tough sell to consistently get people into the hideous Fairmont with this across the street.
Only thing slightly scary, hopefully just a typo, is in the gallery, the Portage-facing side is listed as "rear view" and the lane-side is listed as "street view."
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From construction thread earlier.
Unless there's something of major historic value inside, seems like a good candidate to
not list as historic, based on the fantastic treatment and use of the original building in this plan. Can't think of a single private development in the city that properly mixed new + old to this effect. RRC buildings did great, but with lots of public funding. Mitchell-Copp/Centrepoint was executed horribly and Ryan block is just facade as well.