Downtown Update - Page 160

NortheastWind · #**3181** Posted **Dec 4, 2015, 4:11 PM**

Fantastic!! This and the purchase of the industrial lands further up Wellington could really help this area come back to life. Plus it's only 1 km from James Street, so it will help the renaissance spread down Barton St, which has properties ripe for redevelopment.

Kudos to Ron. He's getting up there in age so I see him making something happen sooner than later.

LikeHamilton · #**3182** Posted **Dec 8, 2015, 4:58 AM**

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This building on the right that had the facade falling off now has a new one. It is all a darker gray concrete block from top to bottom.

It looks — ugly!

#**3183** Posted **Dec 8, 2015, 5:16 AM**

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CaptainKirk · #**3184** Posted **Dec 8, 2015, 11:26 AM**

Fugly!

The brick look is way better.

coalminecanary · #**3185** Posted **Dec 8, 2015, 1:13 PM**

Wow, i wonder how much it cost to totally ruin that building? The city paid half I'm sure. Ugh.

matt602 · #**3186** Posted **Dec 8, 2015, 2:13 PM**

Oh wow, thats terrible. I was expecting something way nicer.

NortheastWind · #**3187** Posted **Dec 8, 2015, 3:03 PM**

Maybe there's still cladding or siding to go over the block.

Dr Awesomesauce · #**3188** Posted **Dec 8, 2015, 11:31 PM**

^Aluminium siding?

davidcappi · #**3189** Posted **Dec 9, 2015, 12:53 AM**

I — you not the grey material along either side of the facade is the same stucco that the Homewood Suites is clad in.

coalminecanary · #**3190** Posted **Dec 9, 2015, 2:40 AM**

bad taste should be against bylaw

thistleclub · #**3191** Posted **Dec 9, 2015, 2:14 PM**

Alternate history.

PHOTO BY RANDY STEELE (VIA STEELECITYSNAPSHOTS)

NortheastWind · #**3192** Posted **Dec 9, 2015, 2:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by Dr Awesomesauce

^Aluminium siding?

I work for a siding and decking company that does industrial commercial institutional construction (ICI). All the siding is steel and we have done some really sharp looking office buildings with it.

matt602 · #**3193** Posted **Dec 9, 2015, 3:08 PM**

You know your city has street issues when fake movie set buildings make it look nicer/more urban.

Berklon · #**3194** Posted **Dec 9, 2015, 5:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by matt602

You know your city has street issues when fake movie set buildings make it look nicer/more urban.

They should fill the empty lots with those things just to give people/investors an idea what a revitalized downtown could look like. A kind of cheap advertising.

ScreamingViking · #**3195** Posted **Dec 10, 2015, 4:53 AM**

Maybe it's what Wilson Blanchard could have done beside Gore Park instead of the plywood treatment.

Hamilton's film permit office could still connect the dots on that... WB doesn't seem to be in much hurry to do anything.

Dr Awesomesauce · #**3196** Posted **Dec 10, 2015, 12:04 PM**

^You've opened a dirty, old, pustulating wound, my man...

christmas · #**3197** Posted **Dec 11, 2015, 2:11 AM**

Council approves controversial nine-storey Dundas development application

http://www.hamiltonnews.com/news-story/6...e-storey-dundas-development-application/

ScreamingViking · #**3198** Posted **Dec 12, 2015, 5:59 AM**

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Originally Posted by Dr Awesomesauce

^You've opened a dirty, old, pustulating wound, my man...

Sometimes letting it breathe the free air is the only way to heal.

davidcappi · #**3199** Posted **Dec 13, 2015, 2:40 AM**

Centre Point Plaza appears to have been sold by J Beume Real Estate to Effort Trust. It appears on their property listings, and is no longer on Beume's.

http://www.effortcommercial.com/properties/centre-point-plaza

NortheastWind · #**3200** Posted **Dec 13, 2015, 6:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by davidcappi

Centre Point Plaza appears to have been sold by J Beume Real Estate to Effort Trust. It appears on their property listings, and is no longer on Beume's.

http://www.effortcommercial.com/properties/centre-point-plaza

I wish they could demolish it and build something with prominence and maybe an LRT station.