Recent content by jta5

Some close ups of the new dormers and roof from in and around the library:

Hamilton has a local library + affordable housing facility too. https://www.hpl.ca/parkdale

The Spec reported that the residential addition could be 25-30 storeys. Here's a recent photo of the footprint of the site, which is currently built up on King but is proposed to build all the way back until it achieves a Main St frontage as well. The site has split zoning permissions, so a...

More likely I suspect is that they determined this site to be a good candidate for rentals, which a market exists for, and James St a better candidate for condos, which there is no market for. If that's the case, I wonder if Vantage might swap Connolly to rentals too as the real estate downturn...

I was surprised to see this moving ahead but they've submitted for all planning approvals per the Spec today.

I didn't get a photo but I was shocked going past the site yesterday to see that it truly is under construction now! They have a pile driver and some other heavy equipment working on site, wrapped by well designed promotional render hoarding.

@YongeBloor you did quite the construction tour over the holidays! Thanks for all your travels and sharing your photos.

This project is now approved by an MZO issued this morning from the province 🎉 https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1006844/ontario-building-more-homes-near-transit-in-hamilton

@Reecemartin thanks for sharing your article this week on Go expansion plans! It was the first Metrolinx document in which I've seen a written plan to open a new downtown Toronto station at Spadina and Front. I'd only ever encountered that idea as one you'd mentioned in a youtube video years...

Photo from Kiwanis working on the fifth floor now:

Joey Coleman shared the following additional info on the MV being requested. Those are very small apartments. I love the height (it will match 75 James kitty-corner) but the apartment rearrangements seem excessive. Certainly not the strategy of a developer who aims to build rentals instead of...

This is going to COA on dec 11 for approval.

Someone shared these photos in an old Hamilton fb group of construction in 1983. Really cool to see the building in its context back then.

Drone photos from today via New Horizon social media