Construction sites in your city/town

[WhipperSnapper]

wow. look at Griffintown and whatever the neighbourhood on the left hand side is called.

[GreaterMontréal]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

wow. look at Griffintown and whatever the neighbourhood on the left hand side is called.

It's Cité du Multimédia.

[vanman]

Love the density and variety of building forms.

[Dmajackson]

Parkland At The Commons (78 m / 25 fl) at Halifax's iconic Willow Tree is now under construction with the foundation going in. This will be a Shannex retirement community.


Halifax Developments Blog (Photo by David Jackson)

The George Residences (44 m / 14 fl) about 100 metres south of the Willow Tree is wrapping up construction.


Halifax Developments Blog (Photo by David Jackson)

[SteelTown]

By far one of the biggest private construction site in Hamilton, building two 30 storey building.

Originally Posted by TheHonestMaple

Taken November 7, 2021.

TheHonestMaple
https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?p=9445256#post9445256

[TorontoDrew]

Is that Television City....or Radio City?

[WhipperSnapper]

different development. Lamb's proposed Television City is on hold.

[SteelTown]

The big site is for Cobalt and the developer is LIUNA.

There's actually a lot of activity happening at the former CHCH building. I think Brad is setting up a sales centre. There's a brand new ad that popped up today for Television City across the old CHCH building.

[WhipperSnapper]

That's good to hear. Hopefully, it's still the same.

[TorontoDrew]

Lamb develpoments seem to have been on hold in Toronto as well but it appears some of his old proposals are on the move again. Hopefully the Hamilton projects will start to move again as well. His buildings at least on the exterior usually look good in their surroundings.

[Innsertnamehere]

It's "Cobalt on King William":

[TorontoDrew]

Of all the Canadian cities I see with Major construction, Hamilton makes me the happiest. I think it's probably the only Canadian city that had such a neglected downtown core, and hung onto the donut effect of wealth for much longer then the rest of Canada it seems. To see developments and people coming back into the city centre is great. So much great architecture and History in the cities downtown. Hamilton in 15 years will be a very exciting place to live work and grow up.

[hipster duck]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

Of all the Canadian cities I see with Major construction, Hamilton makes me the happiest.

I do that too, where I root for developments in cities that either had a tough time until recently, or are in the process of moving up a league in the urban rankings.

So the other Canadian cities I like to follow on the side are Hamilton, Winnipeg, KW, London, Halifax and Kelowna.

[TorontoDrew]

Winnipeg for sure, London I'm not going to lie, I know so little about but it's great to see them doing real urban things like building high density and LRT. Halifax, I've never felt that because I feel like it's always done well at it's own pace and it's my favorite Canadian City I've never seen in person. Kelowna I'm not sure what to think. It's in such a strange location in B.C where I see it more of a retirement and vacation town then a real urban area with a true industry outside of that. I also know a lot of people in that province who look down on it so my opinion of it might be or is jaded.

[hipster duck]

Halifax was always a very urban place and, even at its low point, I don't think its people wrote off downtown the way people did in Hamilton. However, it's fun to see it grow because the Atlantic provinces have always had a raw deal, and having a bona fide big city really raises their profile. For better or for worse, Canadians tend to only notice a region if it has a big city, and a region gains power if it has a powerful city.

London is like Hamilton but without the deindustrialization. Even if the city was quite affluent and white collar, it left its downtown to rot. It has quite a bit of commercial real estate for a city of its size, all it was missing was a decent middle class population. It's good to see that slowly come back, although I feel the city is quite suburban in its orientation/outlook.

Kelowna is interesting because it's not only entering the mid-sized leagues, but it's doing so in an urban way that's a radical departure from what it was doing up until very recently. Kelowna was basically growing Phoenix style, where 100% of the neighbourhoods were suburbia, downtown was this poky little thing, and everybody just did all their activities in strip malls. Then, all of a sudden, they started building downtown highrises, built a bus rapid transit line, and they even built a secondary walkable neighbourhood on South Pandosy street. I think it's one of the more ambitiously urban cities of its size in Canada, certainly given how young and suburban it was until recently.

[JHikka]

I'm definitely on team KWC - very exciting to see how big it can get in such a short time. That whole triangle of Hamilton->Brantford->Woodstock->KWC->Guelph is very exciting IMO.

[TorontoDrew]

I'm actually that Canada doesn't have a major city on the east coast. Imagine Halifax as our NYC, or even Boston. I'd love to see Halifax at around 3 million. Big Skyline, the east coast face of Canada.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

I'm actually that Canada doesn't have a major city on the east coast. Imagine Halifax as our NYC, or even Boston. I'd love to see Halifax at around 3 million. Big Skyline, the east coast face of Canada.

That's basically Montreal. Although maybe I shouldn't reopen the issue of whether or not Montreal is landlocked

[WhipperSnapper]

These developments in Hamilton leave a ton to be desired.

I also found Hamilton rough on the edges (comparably to Toronto) like Oshawa. Windsor is depressing.

[Hali87]

Originally Posted by hipster duck

Kelowna is interesting because it's not only entering the mid-sized leagues, but it's doing so in an urban way that's a radical departure from what it was doing up until very recently. Kelowna was basically growing Phoenix style, where 100% of the neighbourhoods were suburbia, downtown was this poky little thing, and everybody just did all their activities in strip malls. Then, all of a sudden, they started building downtown highrises, built a bus rapid transit line, and they even built a secondary walkable neighbourhood on South Pandosy street. I think it's one of the more ambitiously urban cities of its size in Canada, certainly given how young and suburban it was until recently.

Moncton is a lot like this too - the shift isn't quite as abrupt and the newest buildings aren't as tall but the overall reversal in trends is similar.

As for Halifax, it's been interesting to see the trajectory over the last couple decades. 20 years ago it seemed difficult/really complicated to get highrises approved in the region, and to be fair a lot of the proposals weren't great. As the local planning bylaws got streamlined more large-scale developments got built and the design quality tended to go way up. In 2021 there's a housing shortage and a clear pressure to build more, quickly, that didn't really exist in the past. Downtown has gotten steadily "nicer" over that time period but stayed quirky and fun throughout. It seemed like there was always a fair amount of investment along Barrington, Spring Garden, and the boardwalk, and it's never really been deserted like in many cities. Gottingen Street got kind of bleak for a while but even at its lowest points had restaurants and nightclubs pulling in steady crowds. Downtown as I remember it as a kid in the 90s was a somewhat scrappier place with a lot of vacant lots but still had a lot of destinations and seemed quite bustling.