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Old Posted Mar 2, 2012, 8:33 PM
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Possibly, there is a hotel up that way now but with airport doubling in size it could happen. What has been the average height of their hotels?
I believe it's 14 floors on average for the Alt brand.

Anyway, their plan is to open 10 new Alt hotels in the next 5 years and hopefully, St-John's will be on that list!
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Old Posted Mar 2, 2012, 8:43 PM
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I believe it's 14 floors on average for the Alt brand.

Anyway, their plan is to open 10 new Alt hotels in the next 5 years and hopefully, St-John's will be on that list!
I believe the current height restrictions by the airport is 3 stories, but the city and the town of Torbay are both looking at developing industrial parks by the airport so that may change.

It'd be great to see St. John's get one but you can't get your hopes up in this city.
     
     
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Old Posted Mar 3, 2012, 1:33 AM
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I believe the current height restrictions by the airport is 3 stories, but the city and the town of Torbay are both looking at developing industrial parks by the airport so that may change.

It'd be great to see St. John's get one but you can't get your hopes up in this city.
There are already at least 3 hotels close to the airport, and a 4th being built. The airport also isn't far from the city and downtown, so it isn't as much a prioity as in Halifax for example where it is quite far away. However, I see no reason to have that height limit when other airports have 14 storey buildings.
     
     
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Old Posted Mar 3, 2012, 5:27 PM
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12 floor residential gottingen st. in Halifax



     
     
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Old Posted Mar 3, 2012, 6:29 PM
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Is Gottingen Street considered to be a rough area? This project should do a decent job of improving the neighbourhood.
     
     
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Old Posted Mar 3, 2012, 10:24 PM
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Gottingen use to be one of the nicest streets in Halifax but now it is one of the rougher areas in the city
Yeah, it could use this project and in the coming years will hopefully see more changes like this in the area
     
     
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Old Posted Mar 3, 2012, 10:36 PM
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Is Gottingen Street considered to be a rough area? This project should do a decent job of improving the neighbourhood.
This is 50/50 affordable and market-rate housing. There's another similar project planned a couple doors down and then some townhouses are going to be built across the street.

Gottingen was considered rough but has been gentrifying a lot lately and has seen a couple of private condo developments. I'm not sure exactly what it's like presently because I haven't been back in a couple of years.
     
     
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I find walking down Gottingen isnt to much different right now but I can see it change/changing
It should be quite different within a few years .
     
     
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the new alt hotel project is aparently getting bigger with 2 more towers?


according to this site plan

in this pdf from their site
http://matrix.cwcanada.com/filecabinet/Property/584586/11_Folder-Brochure%20tries.pdf
     
     
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2 new condos proposed for just east of downtown kitty corner to each other here in Edmonton on Jasper Avenue.


(http://postmediaedmonton.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/rsz_singlecorners.jpg)

Also a new Hilton will be going up next door to them.


(http://postmediaedmonton.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/rsz_quartershotel.jpg)
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2 new condos proposed for just east of downtown kitty corner to each other here in Edmonton on Jasper Avenue.


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Also a new Hilton will be going up next door to them.
Seems Edmonton is on a roll!
     
     
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^lots of proposals setting up for the next big influx of money and people... but not a lot of shovels yet.
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that halifax proposal is beautiful...very nice proportions and composition.

the edmonton hilton?...not so much.....maybe if it were near that wonky art gallery.
     
     
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^it is... 2 blocks away hahaha.
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that halifax proposal is beautiful...very nice proportions and composition.
Surely you're not talking about that one on Gottingen?
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2 new condos proposed for just east of downtown kitty corner to each other here in Edmonton on Jasper Avenue.


(http://postmediaedmonton.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/rsz_singlecorners.jpg)

Also a new Hilton will be going up next door to them.


(http://postmediaedmonton.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/rsz_quartershotel.jpg)
Love them both!

The Corner towers look a lot better than I expected and the Hilton is a winner in my eyes as well. It's a start for the Quarters.
     
     
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something major happening at the Toronto Convention Centre, which was sold to Oxford Properties last summer....posted by TOareaFan over at UT...

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We have nearly a mile now of Front St. that we will be able to play with over the next several decades,” he said. ``I am hoping that someone is going to look down and say that was a good decision” to buy the MTCC complex.

“We are very optimistic that over time that we can make this whole site spectacular, and it can involve more retail, it can involve more residential density,” he said.

Oxford has just completed a “global review” of the Front St. corridor involving architects from the U.K., the U.S. to begin the work of redevelopment. Oxford intends to announce the team that will work on the project for the next couple years and bring the various decision makers onside. “We are hoping that we can do something transformational, working both with the Convention Centre and the city in this whole corridor.”
rest of the news report here...

http://www.renx.ca/Detailed/Commercial/Oxford_Dreaming_Big_in_Downtown_Toronto_24490.html
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Old Posted Mar 8, 2012, 5:58 AM
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Edmonton's got some pretty nice proposals over the past few months. Nice to see it.
     
     
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Old Posted Mar 8, 2012, 6:35 AM
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Surely you're not talking about that one on Gottingen?
yup...love it.
     
     
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Old Posted Mar 8, 2012, 7:25 AM
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I suppose even Trabant's get love.
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