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SFUVancouver · #**841** Posted **Dec 11, 2023, 4:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by Wigs

Marquee doesn't have these issues which makes day to day living horrible for the new residents, particularly Grad students trying to focus on their Master's degree.
They can't even drink the tap water!

I expect higher standards for a building owned by the #5 University in Canada, and according to US News and World Report the #138 globally ranked school out of almost 2,200 ranked in the World.
https://www.usnews.com/education/bes...02196#rankings

If I'm not mistaken, it's not owned by McMaster. I thought it was a private developer who entered into a long-term contract with Mac.

bigguy1231 · #**842** Posted **Dec 11, 2023, 4:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by Wigs

Marquee doesn't have these issues which makes day to day living horrible for the new residents, particularly Grad students trying to focus on their Master's degree.
They can't even drink the tap water!

I expect higher standards for a building owned by the #5 University in Canada, and according to US News and World Report the #138 globally ranked school out of almost 2,200 ranked in the World.
https://www.usnews.com/education/bes...02196#rankings

They are actually ranked even higher in many of the non American rankings. The American rankings are skewed by taking into account endowments and not just academics.

Davis137 · #**843** Posted **Dec 13, 2023, 2:54 PM**

This building just gets better and better as the cladding goes up...looks a lot like what you would expect to see in NYC and other locations...a hybrid of Mid-Century Modern and current modern designs...

Chronamut · #**844** Posted **Dec 15, 2023, 6:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by Davis137

This building just gets better and better as the cladding goes up...looks a lot like what you would expect to see in NYC and other locations...a hybrid of Mid-Century Modern and current modern designs...

Yeah even I have to admit it looks really good from the outside - lots to look at and admire - not just a box - between this and the bulged design of the glass one in the same block and the other buildings this is probably the most interesting cluster of modern/modern old building fusions in the entire city.

I wish theyd demolish that god awful motel though across from the giant parking lot not too far away from it though - that thing is god awful looking. Feels like an eyesore reminder of the decline of hamilton every time I see it.

Arrival inn my ass..

Berklon · #**845** Posted **Dec 15, 2023, 7:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chronamut

Arrival inn my ass..

The extra "n" really changes the meaning a lot.

Chronamut · #**846** Posted **Dec 15, 2023, 7:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by Berklon

The extra "n" really changes the meaning a lot.

Haha that it does

urban_planner · #**847** Posted **Dec 15, 2023, 8:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by Davis137

This building just gets better and better as the cladding goes up...looks a lot like what you would expect to see in NYC and other locations...a hybrid of Mid-Century Modern and current modern designs...

Let's not get carried away. They building looks great on a sunny day, ON a cloudy day those panels are pretty close in color to standard life and 25 main west. Also the panels continuing right into the mech house make the top look awkward and incomplete.

Davis137 · #**848** Posted **Dec 18, 2023, 6:10 PM**

Wow, that arrival Inn is still there...wonder for how much longer...

Chronamut · #**849** Posted **Dec 21, 2023, 11:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by Davis137

Wow, that arrival Inn is still there...wonder for how much longer...

It's the last rotton tooth along that street imo.

SteelTown · #**850** Posted **Jan 24, 2024, 2:12 PM**

Uh, brutal.

Fixing contaminated water at McMaster residence means all tenants must leave

Every tenant living at a downtown McMaster residence will have to move out of the premises for six days while crews fix the coliform contamination that has tainted the building’s water supply.

The issue was acknowledged by the university back in December.

Those living in the downtown, 30-storey dormitory at 10 Bay Street South will be relocated to a nearby hotel beginning Feb. 4.

https://www.chch.com/fixing-contamin...eid=30335158ea

drpgq · #**851** Posted **Jan 24, 2024, 2:15 PM**

That's sucks for the relative premium they are paying.

matt602 · #**852** Posted **Jan 24, 2024, 4:39 PM**

What an absolute shit show. Poor students.

craftbeerdad · #**853** Posted **Jan 24, 2024, 5:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by matt602

What an absolute shit show. Poor students.

winner

Chronamut · #**854** Posted **Jan 27, 2024, 8:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by craftbeerdad

winner

I love that that actually exists as a gif lol..

ScreamingViking · #**855** Posted **Feb 13, 2024, 11:21 PM**

The "gold" angled cladding only covers the entire backside of the building. There are strips where it does not on the western and northern faces. Perhaps that will change, but if it doesn't I'll be a bit disappointed.

brandensimon560 · #**856** Posted **Feb 17, 2024, 6:47 PM**

February 14

drpgq · #**857** Posted **Jul 29, 2024, 1:38 PM**

Construction of new downtown student residence complete, but McMaster is struggling to fill it

https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...dd8350aac.html

More than half of a troubled downtown McMaster University residence is set to be vacant in September.

The 10 Bay St. S. residence is currently “on track for 40 per cent” occupancy in September, a number the university anticipates will grow as the semester begins, spokesperson Wade Hemsworth said in an email.

About a dozen floors of the partially built downtown residence, built in partnership with academic developer Knightstone Capital Management Inc., were opened in September of last year. Its approximately 200 tenants were plagued with water quality issues, privacy concerns and other construction-related problems, which at one point forced students to temporarily move out for about a week while the university flushed the building’s plumbing. Tenants were reimbursed a portion of rent as a result.

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For some, the building’s “price point might be difficult,” Hemsworth said.
Monthly rent for a furnished suite is between $1,416 for a room in a shared two-bedroom and $2,126 for a private one-bedroom, each around 500 square feet. Two-bedroom apartments for families of up to four people are upward of $2,600. The students union previously said these rates are “unaffordable.”

$2200 is a lot for a one bedroom. I wonder how much the water issues have lessened demand.

BCTed · #**858** Posted **Jul 29, 2024, 2:06 PM**

High price, water issues, distance from campus, and a freaking wasteland on the streets --- bums, drugs, guns, tents. This city needs a major clean-up to get back on track.

Berklon · #**859** Posted **Jul 29, 2024, 8:19 PM**

It's probably mainly the price - although the rent does include utilities and internet - so they save some money there. It still should be cheaper.

TheHonestMaple · #**860** Posted **Jul 29, 2024, 10:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by BCTed

High price, water issues, distance from campus, and a freaking wasteland on the streets --- bums, drugs, guns, tents. This city needs a major clean-up to get back on track.

yep. That area of downtown is a shitshow. We need police to enforce the law. Whatever happened to that idea?