A rendering showing the restored Royal Connaught Hotel and the 36 floor tower:
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New rendering showing the restored Royal Connaught Hotel, the 36 floor tower, and the 24 floor tower (Released Feb 2013):
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Royal Connaught to re-open by 2015: Owners
Teri Pecoskie
Mon Jan 21 2013 18:16:00
"The Royal Connaught will be re-inhabited as early as 2015, according to the hotel’s owners.
In a news release Monday, Ted Valeri and Rudi Spallacci say part of their proposed 700-unit condominium development is expected to be built and ready for occupants within the next three years.
The initial phase of the project is expected include 135 units constructed behind the original façade of the two existing Connaught buildings. The suites range in size from 530 to 1,190 square feet and start in the high $100,000s.
“People see the Royal Connaught as their hotel,” Valeri said in the release. “Our plans for the project are to bring it back and make people proud of this iconic address once again.”
Valeri and Spallacci say they plan to open a presentation centre for The Residences of Royal Connaught in the hotel’s three-storey lobby this summer. The centre will later transition into the building’s main lobby and reception area.
They couldn’t say when the rest of the proposed development – which is projected to include a tower featuring several hundred condo units, parking, commercial space and restaurants at the corner of King and Catherine Streets – will be complete."
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The abandoned Royal Connaught Hotel as it sits today:
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