Cobalt Luxury Residences On King | 97.5 & 97.5m | 2 x 30 fl | Complete

[TheHonestMaple]

Originally Posted by TheRitsman

I honestly don't think that's the reason. I lived on John at the time of the park opening, before anyone was using it as a campground and it was just a bland and bad design with no interesting features. It was immediately cold and uninviting. Other places that the homeless have set up camp like Central Park, and Gage, and where interesting figures regularly hang out like Gore and Victoria are all inviting, special places to spend time, read a book, meet a friend, or throw the frisbee. John/Rebecca park is just none of that. It feels like between nowhere and nowhere, and it has the design of an airport, forgettable and utilitarian.

It doesn't even have a good name. It exists solely because a dude wanted a park there or he wouldn't donate money toward it, and the city rushed and had idiot citizens design the park.

oh, don't get me wrong, I totally agree. It looks like the surface of the moon, and I have no clue why they thought that would be a good idea for a park. But the people that hang out there definitely do not help the situation. Just take a look at the google maps streetview of it.

I just hope the condo that's going in across the street makes the park less appealing to that particular group, and it gets cleaned up a bit.

[Crapht]

I’m pretty sure the park was built in anticipation of the thousands of new residents within a couple of blocks over the next several years. There is a small skating rink there and lots of biking through ways. Kids enjoy climbing and small hills are there with eventual shade in the years to come. Gore park is a block away if you need fountains. It’s hardly award-winning but it’s not a parking lot. I’m sure it will be due for a makeover in 10 years.

[Markus83]

Taken on the 20th of May, 2022

[Markus83]

Taken today - May 26th, 2022

[Chronamut]

I walked by here today and man does it really mess with your head to see anything that high up on that side of the street in the gore park area..

[johnnyhamont]

From Joe

[King&James]

Couple of shots - June 17

[Innsertnamehere]

can't be long until we see cladding here now.

[catcher_of_cats]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

can't be long until we see cladding here now.

Also can't wait until the second tower is visible from King Street

[TheRitsman]

Cobalt has become very visible from Bay St where I do my regular walking on my work break
Biked past today and it was loud with construction noises. Both Cobalt and the McMaster residence are flying upward. McMaster seems to be done with the podium too so both should be quickly rising.

The metal hangers and such for windows and cladding seem to suggest they will begin cladding the lower floors within the coming weeks or months.

[mclancer]

Starting to get taller, not even halfway there yet.
Do you think that Hamilton will start to look like Vancouver?
The maximum height seems to be 30 floors, and with all the "30 stories"
under construction or coming soon, downtown will look like a plateau.

[matt602]

Originally Posted by mclancer

Starting to get taller, not even halfway there yet.
Do you think that Hamilton will start to look like Vancouver?
The maximum height seems to be 30 floors, and with all the "30 stories"
under construction or coming soon, downtown will look like a plateau.

I think a comparison to Vancouver is a bit premature but the view from the top of the escarpment will probably become a mini version of Montreal in the next decade or two.

[davidcappi]

The metal brackets are for brick masonry. Still a ways to go. They’ll have to frame all of the window openings first. You’ll probably see tower cladding before the brick begins.

[TheRitsman]

Originally Posted by davidcappi

The metal brackets are for brick masonry. Still a ways to go. They’ll have to frame all of the window openings first. You’ll probably see tower cladding before the brick begins.

Does that suggest actual brick? Or can the metal brackets also be for precast?

[davidcappi]

I think they will be hand laying the bricks here. The metal ledges is usually a giveaway. Precast usually has small metal brackets embedded into the slab.

[Chronamut]

Originally Posted by matt602

I think a comparison to Vancouver is a bit premature but the view from the top of the escarpment will probably become a mini version of Montreal in the next decade or two.

We'd need something other than endless flat roofs for that...

[TheRitsman]

Took a photo walking down King. Changed the view going east on King for sure. But goddamn does the walk down King St suck right now in that section, really looking forward to LRT widening one of the busiest pedestrian corridors from like 50cm wide in some places... Ugh

[Innsertnamehere]

the north sidewalk in front of Jackson Square is quite wide and very busy, but yea, the south sidewalk sucks.

[TheRitsman]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

the north sidewalk in front of Jackson Square is quite wide and very busy, but yea, the south sidewalk sucks.

I'd also mention that where the sidewalk crosses the parking entrance for Jackson Square and the space in front of the hotel are also pretty tight. Keeping in mind these sidewalks were not planned to be used, people were expected to use overhead crosswalks to avoid cars in 1960s utopia vision of a city and the sidewalks were maintained out of legal necessity.

[johnnyhamont]

Minister O'Regan is on site this morning.


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