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Originally Posted by planarchy
Agreed. It is time for this site to be redeveloped. Such a prominent corner, a gateway to SGR, and will continue the trend of framing the Public Gardens. This is long overdue
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I think I would go one step further and say that entire block would be a good candidate for towers completely. The Trillium is a good start, but if the DQ could be combined with a couple of the adjacent parcels to create one large parcel - you could have a nice large tower on that corner.
I'd also say it's time to take down that awful commercial building and replace it with something more residential in flavour, with a couple floors of office. Then repeat that for the rest of the block. That block is one of the few in that area not covered by a viewplane; hence the taller heights.
The other thing I'd suggest is redeveloping those parking lots. Those are subject to a viewplane and judging by adjacent building heights, you'd probably get 2 levels of commercial and 4 to 5 (maybe 6) of residential above. For the smaller parking lot (closer to the NSLC) I'd say that might be a good location for perhaps a boutique hotel, with 2 towers of 5 to 6 stories and restaurants below. Then the bigger parking lot could be residential with some ground floor commercial.
I'd also like to see the Bay move into downtown. So many of the Bay's locations are typically downtown; but not in Halifax (Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton they are in key downtown locations). I'd love to see them move into maybe City Centre Atlantic by taking those two older building next to CC and merging it into the existing mall with 2 or 3 floors. It would put them right across from Mill Brothers; which did a great job on their storefont. If not, they could potentially move into Park Lane or that other mall with the Scotia Bank in it (and Roots) - I can't think of the name.