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ScreamingViking · #21 Posted **Mar 2, 2018, 11:56 PM**

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Wait are we now condemning projects because not EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM is a 30 story tower??

A city needs diversity - a combination of tall and small buildings..

Also looking at this area in 3d isometric street view, one really does get a scope for how much parking is all crammed into one specific area of downtown..

Agreed.

And the parking has been such a wasteland for such a long time... I get that it provides a cheap resource for those who travel into downtown, but the cost has been large.

Aaaaand the new "CSI lab" is on the fringe, with SFHs across the street. Its height isn't a pro or a con.

LRTfan · #22 Posted **Mar 3, 2018, 10:43 PM**

I don't mind this at all. Nice institutional glass building on a surface lot on a main artery. Sure it might get redeveloped with higher density in 50 years, but Hamilton is so underdeveloped, and is so many decades behind the most vibrant cities in the world, we need to encourage development of our entire urban core.

Chronamut · #23 Posted **Mar 4, 2018, 10:39 PM**

That and a building for the police doesn't need to be multi stories - it functions as it needs to for the demographic.

Also I was talking to an ex-torontonian the other day who has since moved to hamilton - and he said in the past 5-7 years toronto has really taken a nosedive - they don't have the infrastructure to provide commuting services to the ever growing amt of people living there - it takes an hour to get anywhere in the city, and since they gentrified everything there are no fun interesting or "seedy" places left to go in the city and it's just condos everywhere and all the interest in the city is gone - it's no longer everyone just doing their own thing and providing interesting things to the downtown - now it's just a bunch of people crammed into the horribly overpriced downtown in their own little worlds where nobody interacts. It's also full of MISERABLE people. Toronto was actually voted one of the most miserable cities to live in.

I think this is a good cautionary tale for our city - we don't want to become toronto, but we don't want to stay as rotted old hamilton. A compromise and smart future planning has to take place - you don't just build condos and cram people in in hopes that people will come and things will magically change - you have to plan out entertainment industry proper funnelling of those growing amt of people etc.

I personally don't want hamilton to be a city in perpetual shadow as toronto is, full of huge buildings - I want it to be full of culturally rich events and buildings of all shapes and sizes that respects the heritage but also aims to pull into a modern age. It's why I really am enjoying these hybridization of old and new they got going on with the old buildings.

I also love the character and shoot from the hip personality of hamiltonians - I can always tell when torontonians move in because they tend to be cold and emotionless and barely ever smile, like all the joy has been sucked out of them (you know, until they complain there is nothing to do in hamilton and then move back to toronto). I don't want hamilton to become like that - I don't care how "cosmopolitan" our end goal is, it's not worth sucking out the life force of the people in the end.

davidcappi · #24 Posted **Mar 25, 2018, 5:22 PM**

durandy · #25 Posted **Mar 26, 2018, 1:50 AM**

anyone know what those are?

beanmedic · #26 Posted **Apr 1, 2018, 3:54 PM**

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anyone know what those are?

Evidence.

ScreamingViking · #27 Posted **Apr 2, 2018, 5:26 AM**

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anyone know what those are?

"Green" prisoner-powered electricity generators for a new holding tank.

King&James · #28 Posted **May 15, 2018, 12:36 AM**

Activity on site today ....

davidcappi · #29 Posted **Jul 6, 2018, 8:14 PM**

From https://twitter.com/REIMAR_Forming

davidcappi · #30 Posted **Aug 8, 2018, 11:55 PM**

From https://twitter.com/REIMAR_Forming

lachlanholmes · #31 Posted **Aug 29, 2018, 2:06 PM**

From REIMAR twitter.

anactualalien · #32 Posted **Aug 29, 2018, 2:39 PM**

The problem I have with this building isn't so much the building itself but how it's oriented. I wish it was facing the future park and not Wilson St, which will probably always be a ghost town as far as streetscape goes.

Crapht · #33 Posted **Aug 29, 2018, 4:28 PM**

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The problem I have with this building isn't so much the building itself but how it's oriented. I wish it was facing the future park and not Wilson St, which will probably always be a ghost town as far as streetscape goes.

It is facing the newly renovated Beasley Park. I think it will look sharp from Beasley with the growing city skyline behind it.

thomax · #34 Posted **Jan 3, 2019, 3:13 PM**

12/12/18 by Joe, on Flickr

thomax · #35 Posted **Apr 8, 2019, 4:15 PM**

4/6/2019 by Joe, on Flickr

king10 · #36 Posted **Apr 25, 2019, 4:34 PM**

They're targeting an early 2020 completion. Will be a tight timeline to finish but doable.

hamilton23 · #37 Posted **Apr 25, 2019, 4:37 PM**

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They're targeting an early 2020 completion. Will be a tight timeline to finish but doable.

I see it happening. I walk by the site everyday.

More quality jobs in the core is such a great thing.

lachlanholmes · #38 Posted **May 12, 2019, 12:56 AM**

Today:

lachlanholmes · #39 Posted **Jun 9, 2019, 2:51 AM**

Almost exactly a month later from the last update:

thomax · #40 Posted **Sep 7, 2019, 5:01 PM**

9/5/2019 by Joe, on Flickr