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Originally Posted by Goldfinger
LIUNA has done 3 actually, their offices on Hughson St. and LIUNA Gardens were well done as well. The gardens were created from a gutted nightclub called El Morocco in the '70s.
I honestly think that LIUNA are the only guys who can pull a restoration off. They have a track record, access to a large and flexbile pool of labour and political muscle to get the province and feds (sometimes) to chip in.
When I look at the other recent larger complex restoration/rebuild attemps: Dundurn Lofts, Trinity Landing, Chateau Royal, those failures can be attributed to inexperience mostly. It is great to be in the business of restoring these things but it's ALOT harder than any of us can imagine.
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'the only guys who can pull this off'??
I would take BBS Realty in a heartbeat - they own much of downtown and have done wonderful jobs on buildings such as the old Bank of Montreal, Hunter/James office building and are now working on a building across the street on Hunter at James.
BofMontreal might be the greatest reno this city has ever seen. I'm sure there are others around who we don't know about who could also do a wonderful reno job - I'm thinking of the folks who did the old Woolworths building and Right House.
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