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Originally Posted by StEC
I'd like to see the entire property redeveloped like this, include the grocery store in one of the bigger podiums with public underground parking for the retail separate from the residential parking. I'm liking what I am seeing so far though, it's a great start! Man Hamilton is on a roll there is no stopping this growth boom anytime soon!
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To be honest even as a kid I liked the open feeling of that corner with all the big apartment buildings framed in the background - I wouldn't want to see a giant build on that corner, it would feel like too much personally, esp since there is nothing huge like that along centennial - this is more a residential area - i'd spring for something more stepped down - that corner isn't a walkable area - its on one of the busiest corners of the city - having storefronts along street level wouldn't make sense here - that and you'd never get away with a build on that corner without a massive daylight triangle on the corner - imo, would just clog traffic. Centennial will never be a walkable calm road.. ever because it is one of THE most arterial roads in the city.
I don't mind the proposed build in the back where printer.ca and the old white rose used to be as that was always way back there and tucked away - but maybe its just because I grew up in stoney creek that anything huge here would just feel.. out of place if it went right to the corner.
Something like center mall might work on that corner there though - although being so close to the mall that might not make sense - still have parking but have some big box stores. Gotta feed all those apartment people still hehe, or even what they did farther up queenston where zellars used to be - put some restaurants out front (other than god-awful burger king) and modernize the strip - you definitely don't need all of that parking space anymore - but at the same time gotta still have some breathing room and not just plop huge builds on every square inch of land imo. This area does NOT suffer from a lack of urban density - there's enough people packed into this block with all the big apartments out back. There are at least 9 massive apartment buildings out back and plenty of townhouses
Upon saying that some manner of transformation of that corner would be cool - just nothing.. intimidating imo - something tastefully stepped down in height possibly. Maybe even something that has say a one story wraparound and you drive in in the center of each side to peruse, like a burloak entertainment center complex
I'll be happy to see the old futureshop finally demolished though.
I also feel bad for the views these people are going to have - this isn't the prettiest area to look down on, nor the quietest. At least right now it's not. Also when I went to school around here those apartments were considered the "poor" area of town. Drug busts, people crammed into living spaces, etc.
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