Development Rumours

[Jonovision]

It wasn't Dockside. It was on the opposite side of the cove. Right beside the old Motel, where all the infilling is happening. It's a typical HRM development application sign.

[Dmajackson]

Originally Posted by Jonovision

It wasn't Dockside. It was on the opposite side of the cove. Right beside the old Motel, where all the infilling is happening. It's a typical HRM development application sign.

The infill is WDCL property so they might have a development application sign up for Phase II of the Waterfront.

I'm heading down that way tonight so I'll pop over and see which one it is.

[sdm]

Originally Posted by Bedford_DJ

The infill is WDCL property so they might have a development application sign up for Phase II of the Waterfront.

I'm heading down that way tonight so I'll pop over and see which one it is.

If memory serves me correct, but i believe Unitied Gulf has property there.

[Dmajackson]

Originally Posted by Jonovision

It wasn't Dockside. It was on the opposite side of the cove. Right beside the old Motel, where all the infilling is happening. It's a typical HRM development application sign.

Originally Posted by sdm

If memory serves me correct, but i believe Unitied Gulf has property there.

Actually its W.M. Fares who has property there according to the sign.

I didn't have my camera on me tonight so I'll snap a picture sometime this weekend when I'm down there on my bicycle but this is what the sign said in short version;

Case 01250
W.M. Fares Group
Mixed-use residential/commercial
827 Bedford Highway.

Interesting thing to note though is right next to this sign is a "Lot for Sale" sign.

[Jonovision]

Thanks Bedford_DJ. Maybe Bedford will get a mini Kings Wharf! lol

[Dmajackson]

Originally Posted by Jonovision

Thanks Bedford_DJ. Maybe Bedford will get a mini Kings Wharf! lol

Lol I wish.

The lot across the street is limited to four storeys thanks to the condominium building "viewplane" that has to see the water

I tried looking up information but nothing surfaced so I've emailed Councillor Outhit to see if he can get anything for me.

And on another note the lot across the street is starting construction this summer. See the Southgate Village thread.

[Waye Mason]

Originally Posted by phrenic

Oh thank god that was shot down. A walkable, dense urban project would have been terrible for that street. Just terrible.

Hah! At least now in Halifax that might look good, can you imagine what it would have looked like if they had built it back then? Scotia Square II, in the heart of Quinpool, that's what. Yikes!

[phrenic]

Originally Posted by Waye Mason

Hah! At least now in Halifax that might look good, can you imagine what it would have looked like if they had built it back then? Scotia Square II, in the heart of Quinpool, that's what. Yikes!

Good point. I guess I was just thinking of modern multi-tower projects in places like Vancouver and Toronto that actually look decent and not of Halifax's history of generally poor high rise architecture. It probably would have been a hulking concrete monolith, worse than quinpool tower as it is now. It's bad enough that every time I'm walking toward Scotia Square it feels like I'm traveling to Mordor, let alone potentially having a second beast up the hill.

[Waye Mason]

As I say all the time about this "pro vs anti development" nonsense, its not that I am against big buildings, I am against ugly buildings, and most new buildings in Halifax have been ugly for decades. Even where they almost get it (north end of the brewery market, or Bishops Landing) neither integrates with the street really well, not being at grade with the sidewalk drives me bonkers. That and the ugly empty concrete plinths with parking behind them, that happen to this day, far too often.

[Halifax Hillbilly]

Originally Posted by Waye Mason

As I say all the time about this "pro vs anti development" nonsense, its not that I am against big buildings, I am against ugly buildings, and most new buildings in Halifax have been ugly for decades. Even where they almost get it (north end of the brewery market, or Bishops Landing) neither integrates with the street really well, not being at grade with the sidewalk drives me bonkers. That and the ugly empty concrete plinths with parking behind them, that happen to this day, far too often.

Bishops Landing and North Brewery block drive me crazy for the same reasons (and others in the case of the Brewery project). Unfortunately its an unplanned side-effect of the viewplanes - developers are a couple of feet short of another level so they lower the building a bit.

[Dmajackson]

Originally Posted by Jonovision

Thanks Bedford_DJ. Maybe Bedford will get a mini Kings Wharf! lol

Here are some photos of what me and Jonovision were talking about (all photos by me);







And one of the view from the lot;

[Jonovision]

It is a very large lot, but it is also cut right in half by the rail line.

[Dmajackson]

Does anyone know what up with this one? (All photos from WHW Architects):







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And while I'm at it heres another one from their website for the QEII Emergency Room Expansion (U/C):

[Barrington south]

Originally Posted by

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this building has a seriously stunted look to it....like it was supposed to be multi-story, and suddenly, at the last moment, was changed to one story......does anyone know if this is so it could be built on-top of in the future?....or is it just an oddly designed building?

[Barrington south]

the building I was referring to is the QE2 emergency expansion

[beyeas]

Originally Posted by Barrington south

this building has a seriously stunted look to it....like it was supposed to be multi-story, and suddenly, at the last moment, was changed to one story......does anyone know if this is so it could be built on-top of in the future?....or is it just an oddly designed building?

They probably were forced by Pacey to drop the height because it could because it blocked the historic rampart viewplane of the QEII.

[Barrington south]

Originally Posted by beyeas

They probably were forced by Pacey to drop the height because it could because it blocked the historic rampart viewplane of the QEII.

and Empire probably supports this move

[Dmajackson]

I don't know if this is new thread worthy so I'll post it here;

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Basically its an expansion of the existing apartment building at 16 Anchor Drive (Halifax) to increase the number of units from 96 to 124.

A public information meeting has been scheduled for June 4, 2009, at 7:00 pm, St. John the Baptist Church Hall, 24 Purcells Cove Road, Halifax.

[loriginal]

I'm not sure if anyone has posted anything about this, but I was driving down Gottingen last week and I noticed a sales offices for Gottingen Terrace just across from the Staples on the corner of Cogswell. Anyone know anything about this?

[Jonovision]

I noticed that too. Don't know what it is. But the sign lead me to believe it was townhouses. Maybe its the 4 units they built further down Gottingen closer to the bridge.