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Old Posted Jun 3, 2016, 6:57 PM
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News video report http://www.chch.com/gap-gore-agreement/ from Wednesday on CHCH.
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Old Posted Jun 3, 2016, 10:23 PM
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I'm really excited for this project to finally happen. I think the scale is good, and the improved retail will only do wonders for the park. I'd imagine that the construction of this will coincide with the construction on the section of the gore it fronts.

DPAI is a pretty awesome firm, and one of the only Hamilton firms that can comfortably handle modern style buildings. If the finishes are of high quality, and the construction is speedy, I don't see how this isn't a win for the park.

Hopefully the Effort Trust project at the south east corner of king and hughson moves forward, then we'll really have some amazing new additions to the gore!
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Looks like the 60's.

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Heritage committee approves facade retention and penthouse addition for 18-22 King Street. Committee also voted against demolition for 24-28 King Street.
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Old Posted Dec 15, 2016, 11:40 PM
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Where are we with this project? I've lost track. Are they still going ahead with that massive project with those Disneyfied facades?
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Old Posted Dec 16, 2016, 10:42 PM
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Heritage committee rejects one demo bid, accepts another for Gore buildings

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By Jeff Mahoney

Heritage advocates are mobilizing to try and save two historic Gore Park properties from demolition for the second time in four years.

The city's heritage committee, by a vote of 5 to 4, rejected a city staff recommendation to approve an application to demolish heritage buildings at 24 and 28 King St. E., facing Gore Park.

But it voted to approve a demolition permit for 18-22 King East, conditional on the preservation of the façade.

City council still has to make the final decision on the project, however.

The votes came at Thursday's committee meeting, after a civil but passionate round of dueling submissions by several architectural conservancy advocates on the one side and the lawyer and architect for developers Hughson Business Space Corporation on the other.

The two city councillors on the committee, Maria Pearson and Judi Partridge, both voted in favour of the recommendation to accept the application to demolish at 24-28. The matter will go to planning committee and council in the new year.

Committee member Kathleen Garay, speaking against demolition, said she appreciates the efforts of the architect and the developer to come up with a compromise. And, she added, "on a personal level, I could just about live with the façadism (the controversial "heritage" practice of preserving only the façade) with the towering black penthouse over the dormer.

"But to demolish, as a quid pro quo, this isn't a fair trade: saving the elegant one at the expense of the utilitarian one."

The buildings have been the pivot point of a controversy for almost four years now over the balance between an economically viable Gore Park redevelopment and architectural heritage, two pressures that sometimes seem to be competing, especially with the looming possibility of LRT.

The stretch of buildings, 18 to 28 King East, had not been designated heritage when they were bought up over the course of several years beginning in the late 1990s, even though the earliest ones date back to 1840 and were designed by William Thomas. In the absence of a designation, the developers obtained a demolition permit for the buildings, and 30 King East was torn down.

But planned demolition of 18 to 28 was abruptly halted in 2013 when city hall interceded. The developers voluntarily withdrew the permit at that time, said Timothy Bullock, lawyer for Hughson Business Space Corporation.

In his submission to the committee, architect David Premi, who drew up the new plans for 18 to 28, said: "I am passionate about heritage but I'm concerned when absolutist or fundamentalist heritage rules are applied. Sometimes it makes sense to save a building, sometimes it doesn't."

There were seven submissions from conservancy advocates — architect Michael Biljetina, of ATA Architects Inc.; Nicholas Kevlahan, Friends of the Gore; Grant Head, founder of Hamilton Heritage Foundation; Barbara Murray, Architectural Conservancy of Ontario; Rob Zeidler, owner of The Cotton Factory; Diane Dent and Patricia Baker.

They spoke to such issues as the historical significance of the properties in question, and of Gore Park in general; the message that demolition of a heritage property sends and how demolition might jeopardize the stability and integrity of remaining buildings; and of the long-term, appreciative economic value of saving built heritage along with historical character and detail.
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Demolition approved today by planning committee.


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Demolition approved today by planning committee.

where there's a completely ornamental-less soulless looking building - seriously it looks like stone facade and cinder block material... even what was there before was better..
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Old Posted Jan 25, 2017, 11:25 PM
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Council has approved the plan.
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Old Posted Jan 26, 2017, 1:10 AM
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David Blanchard right now:

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Horwath urges Ontario to save Gore Park buildings
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By Matthew Van Dongen

Provincial NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is urging Ontario's culture minister to step in to save four Gore Park buildings destined for demolition.

The Hamilton MPP wrote Tourism, Culture and Sport Minister Eleanor McMahon on Jan. 25, the date city council signed off on a conditional plan to allow the demolition and redevelopment of 18-28 King St. E.

One of those conditions is Hughson Business Space Corp. must preserve the facades of two of the Confederation-era buildings, 18 and 22.

The decision caps years of controversial debate over the crumbling Gore Park Street wall, including council's "Christmas miracle" decision to save the buildings from demolition in 2013 with a last-minute heritage designation.

Horwath's letter scolds the government for a "hands-off approach" to heritage preservation in the province and points to the Gore Park street wall as a "shining reminder" of the importance of local heritage preservation.

"I urge you to take a hard look at this file and come to the table, work with the City of Hamilton to ensure these heritage buildings are preserved," reads the letter.
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and then there is this project , will it see the light of day, or are we getting more surface parking for the Gore?
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Old Posted Oct 25, 2017, 12:30 AM
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It went through DRP again a few weeks ago, and they recommended some tweaking to the retail/ground floor. It's currently at the site plan stage. Hughson Business Space Corp has said on record they have an agreement with the city not to touch the buildings until they are ready to start construction, so there won't be an empty lot here.
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Good! Heritage preservation should have top priority in the core!
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Old Posted Nov 28, 2017, 9:10 PM
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well that's quite a twist. Before they were just keeping the facades, now they're keeping all of 24-28 and just the facades of 18-24??
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Glad they are being preserved. I wonder about the 24 units though. Wasn't the original plan way back in the day to use the lot behind to build a tall building? Is that separate or totally gone?
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Old Posted Nov 28, 2017, 9:43 PM
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At the last DRP meeting Premi said that this would technically be the first phase of a multi-phased redevelopment to happen on that block. The idea is to build a parking garage centrally with buildings fronting main / James, and the parking structure would have direct access to all of the buildings, eventually including the old ones.

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At the last DRP meeting Premi said that this would technically be the first phase of a multi-phased redevelopment to happen on that block. The idea is to build a parking garage centrally with buildings fronting main / James, and the parking structure would have direct access to all of the buildings, eventually including the old ones.
that would be great! It's about time all these missing teeth get filled with practical constructuion - get rid of the parking lots and replace them all with parking garages!

They should do something with the giant parking lot around the LIUNA building on the other side of main as well..

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At the last DRP meeting Premi said that this would technically be the first phase of a multi-phased redevelopment to happen on that block. The idea is to build a parking garage centrally with buildings fronting main / James, and the parking structure would have direct access to all of the buildings, eventually including the old ones.
That's good to hear.
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