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HamiltonBoyInToronto · #**341** Posted **Oct 29, 2021, 10:18 PM**

When I was driving by this afternoon I saw them moving the parts for the second crane into place ....it is going up ...if not today then tomorrow

TheRitsman · #**342** Posted **Oct 30, 2021, 7:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by HamiltonBoyInToronto

When I was driving by this afternoon I saw them moving the parts for the second crane into place ....it is going up ...if not today then tomorrow

I don't think they'll do it over the weekend. It'll be done Monday, I think they're just setting up the crane to make it easy for Monday.

TheHonestMaple · #**343** Posted **Oct 31, 2021, 5:32 PM**

They are definitely preparing to install the second crane, likely tomorrow. All of the parts seem to be in position on the west side of the site.

Markus83 · #**344** Posted **Nov 3, 2021, 4:13 PM**

Great photos @TheHonestMaple!

SteelTown · #**345** Posted **Nov 3, 2021, 7:04 PM**

Yes, thank you @TheHonestMaple for the awesome views! Much appreciated.

Markus83 · #**346** Posted **Nov 5, 2021, 2:09 PM**

Taken November 4, 2021.

TheHonestMaple · #**347** Posted **Nov 6, 2021, 3:00 PM**

This one seems to be going up really quickly, which I feel is typical for university funded builds. I'm excited to see this one progress. Wonder when we'll reach grade level

TheRitsman · #**348** Posted **Nov 6, 2021, 6:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by johnnyhamont

What exact pace can we expect? A year to dig, build foundations and the underground level and reach grade (Summer '22)? Another 1.5 years till structural completion (Jan 2024) for occupancy by September 2024?

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Originally Posted by TheHonestMaple

Anyone want to place bets on when this one reaches grade I'd guess end of October.

Well your old wager was a bit early eh. I think I'm still sticking with my guess of February or March.

TheHonestMaple · #**349** Posted **Nov 6, 2021, 11:42 PM**

haha yep looking very early. I'm thinking you're probably right, February or March.

Markus83 · #**350** Posted **Nov 8, 2021, 5:54 PM**

Taken this morning.
* As of now, the entire outside parking that is linked to the Marquee Residence is fenced off for trades workers and such for this project.

ShavedParmesanCheese · #**351** Posted **Nov 13, 2021, 1:39 PM**

They've cut King St. down to two lanes and Bay down to maybe one as they brought a few cement trucks onto the site, the foundation's being poured today.

Innsertnamehere · #**352** Posted **Nov 13, 2021, 2:40 PM**

Just generally I love how lax Hamilton is on lane closures compared to toronto. Half the developments downtown have an entire street closed for staging space - that would never ever happen in Toronto haha.

bigguy1231 · #**353** Posted **Nov 13, 2021, 4:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

Just generally I love how lax Hamilton is on lane closures compared to toronto. Half the developments downtown have an entire street closed for staging space - that would never ever happen in Toronto haha.

Better get used to it on King St. Once the LRT is built it will only be one lane in each direction.

ScreamingViking · #**354** Posted **Nov 13, 2021, 4:41 PM**

And to think back on how a number of city council heads blew apart over that bus-lane on King.

ScreamingViking · #**355** Posted **Nov 13, 2021, 4:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

Just generally I love how lax Hamilton is on lane closures compared to toronto. Half the developments downtown have an entire street closed for staging space - that would never ever happen in Toronto haha.

I imagine if the developments do take off in a big way the city will need to implement a policy about that.

It's not an issue we've really had to worry about for a number of decades.

Innsertnamehere · #**356** Posted **Nov 13, 2021, 5:05 PM**

Honestly I’m not complaining, the lane and road closures they’ve implemented haven’t been a big deal or really impacted traffic much. The worst one is actually the one on Main near Ottawa, and it’s really not bad at all. Hamilton just doesn’t have bad enough traffic for lane and road closures to really cause issues. It’s just more so entertaining to me that Hamilton is so comparatively permissive to Toronto. Toronto has also gotten a lot stricter in recent years with lane closures as well, John Tory cut back on allowing them a lot.

TheRitsman · #**357** Posted **Nov 13, 2021, 6:00 PM**

Actually I think the lane closures show how overbuilt Hamilton's car infrastructure is. Once High son is reopened it should be limited traffic and pedestrian focused since it's been closed for like 2 or 3 years now without major issues.

TheHonestMaple · #**358** Posted **Nov 13, 2021, 7:42 PM**

Huge progress made this week.

Markus83 · #**359** Posted **Nov 17, 2021, 5:57 PM**

Took this off the Reimar Twitter Account - This being their profile picture at the moment.

https://twitter.com/REIMAR_Forming

TheHonestMaple · #**360** Posted **Nov 17, 2021, 6:01 PM**

That's actually an old picture of Marquee Residence. Was hurting my brain there for a sec trying to figure out from where that picture was taken haha, realized it wasn't McMaster Grad Residences.