Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION
Eatery closed during construction project
Ritzy apartments being built above
By: Murray McNeill
Posted: 08/26/2011 1:00 AM
The Lobby on York restaurant has closed for about two months while the building's owner builds four ritzy apartments on the floor above.
The steak and seafood restaurant is located on the main floor of 160 Smith -- the new name for the former Sheraton Hotel/York the Hotel in downtown Winnipeg.
The restaurant, whose full name is The Lobby on York -- Modern, Steak and Seafood, has been closed since Aug. 15 when the 15 employees were given temporary layoff notices, said general manager Shan Shuwera.
Shuwera said it would have been too noisy in the restaurant with construction work going on overhead. He said the restaurant's owners hope to reopen it around the Thanksgiving long weekend.
But a spokesman for the building's owner, Toronto-based Timbercreek Asset Management, said it will likely be late October or early November before the eatery reopens.
Colleen O'Rourke, Timbercreek's regional manager, said that's how long it will likely take to build the four second-floor "luxury apartments."
She said the two-bedroom units will be about 1,200 square feet in size, but will have higher ceilings, higher-end finishings and a different design than the other one- and two-bedroom apartments in the 21-storey building.
"They'll have a New York loft sort of feel and design."
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