117 Jackson Street East | 126.47 & 96m | 39 & 30 fl | Approved

Innsertnamehere · #1 Posted **Jul 11, 2021, 4:33 PM**

https://www.thepublicrecord.ca/2021/...andmark-place/

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DiCenzo Construction Company is proposing two mixed-use residential towers with a height of 42 and 38 storeys with 792 residential units, 672 parking spaces, and ground-level commercial units.

Exciting. This is the cheapest lot downtown so I tend to park here a fair bit and will miss it for that.. but any dead lot is a good dead lot in my eyes.

Of course the city doesn’t like it and wants them to build to 20 storeys per the downtown secondary plan:

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Staff provided critical comments in 2020, encouraging DiCenzo to return with a new plan which conforms with the DTSP.

bigguy1231 · #2 Posted **Jul 11, 2021, 6:44 PM**

This is what we need, developers pushing the city. Hopefully one of them takes it to LPAT and wins. This height restriction nonsense has to go.

StEC · #3 Posted **Jul 11, 2021, 9:24 PM**

YES, height is appropriate here seeing it's right next to the city's tallest building. Has retail included and it's dense housing. I look forward to seeing the plans!

anactualalien · #4 Posted **Jul 11, 2021, 9:35 PM**

I will take any amount of height on that lot, so glad there's some development planned there finally.

ScreamingViking · #5 Posted **Jul 11, 2021, 10:16 PM**

Even if they get 30-35 storeys it will be a nice "screen" across the face of Landmark from the south, a face that only a mother could truly love (and it will always be Century 21, to me

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King&James · #6 Posted **Jul 12, 2021, 3:55 AM**

Bring on the renders ! This would be quite a step up for DiCenzo . Thinking this has been a parking lot for 50 years.

Beedok · #7 Posted **Jul 12, 2021, 11:01 AM**

Nice. Between this and the Liuna project Jackson would be a lot closer to being a healthy street.

craftbeerdad · #8 Posted **Jul 12, 2021, 1:44 PM**

Sounds positive!

We're also forgetting a nice screen/blocker of 154 Main, aka abysmal drunk lego eyesore.

Innsertnamehere · #9 Posted **Jan 22, 2023, 6:44 PM**

Zoning application in here, no mention of heights, but the unit count has dropped a bit so I suspect they've lopped off at least a few floors.

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To amend zoning to allow the redevelopment of the existing surface parking lot with two mixed use towers containing 751 residential units

Chronamut · #10 Posted **Jan 22, 2023, 6:53 PM**

"The company has yet to build any tall buildings on this scale."

Hrmm..

urban_planner · #11 Posted **Feb 20, 2023, 5:27 PM**

Some more information, this sign looks very new as well.

SteelTown · #12 Posted **Feb 20, 2023, 5:36 PM**

117 Jackson Street East | ?? m | 42+38 fl | Proposed -> 117 Jackson Street East | 122 & 96m | 39 & 30 fl | Proposed

TheHonestMaple · #13 Posted **Feb 20, 2023, 5:42 PM**

I can't get over how wildly different downtown Hamilton is going to be in the next like, 5 years? Seeing applications like this are amazing. This area around the GO Centre is going to be so bustling.

TheRitsman · #14 Posted **Feb 20, 2023, 6:30 PM**

Really glad to see retail as well. So many more streets downtown are going to feel a lot less dead. I hope like Toronto some smaller units will be included for cafés and such which are badly needed downtown (the current ones are regularly packed to the brim)

Berklon · #15 Posted **Feb 20, 2023, 11:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by TheHonestMaple

I can't get over how wildly different downtown Hamilton is going to be in the next like, 5 years? Seeing applications like this are amazing. This area around the GO Centre is going to be so bustling.

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Originally Posted by TheRitsman

Really glad to see retail as well. So many more streets downtown are going to feel a lot less dead. I hope like Toronto some smaller units will be included for cafés and such which are badly needed downtown (the current ones are regularly packed to the brim)

Working from home the last 4.5 years and not once going into the office during that time, I was surprised by the amount of foot traffic I saw when I was down there at midday a couple times last week. There was a lot more bustle than there was 4.5 years ago.

I think we're starting to see the major changes to the core which we were anticipating 10 years ago in the threads on this forum. I can only imagine how much more there will be when tenants move into the Kiwi Condos and when the Cobalt, McMaster and the Jarvis buildings are done... not to mention the many other builds that will be up in the next few years.

TheRitsman · #16 Posted **Mar 3, 2023, 4:29 AM**

Chronamut · #17 Posted **Mar 3, 2023, 4:55 AM**

Curved glass, interesting.

Innsertnamehere · #18 Posted **Mar 3, 2023, 12:53 PM**

Looks OK. G+C is making a killing in this city man.

I wouldn’t get too excited about that curved glass, it almost always gets value engineered out as it’s crazy expensive.

urban_planner · #19 Posted **Mar 3, 2023, 1:29 PM**

What is the source of this image?

TheHonestMaple · #20 Posted **Mar 3, 2023, 1:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by urban_planner

What is the source of this image?

Joey Coleman's Twitter. I'm sure he somehow got his hands on the DRP document for next week.

I really hope the city approves this one quickly with little resistance. That area of downtown really needs some love.