They have like a 30 year lease. If the venue does well, I can see a more substantial exterior renovation occurring within 10 years.

I live and work downtown, so I'm always around, plus checking on the developments regularly gives you a better glimpse into how these structures are actually built!

I'll continue to get photos for sure. The scale of this development and it's location make it hard to miss!

Good seeing you, glad you told me you were taking photos so I didn't have to! 😂

I was actually wondering the same thing re: barbed wire.

Seems they're removing the exterior cladding to show the original stone structure. Unsure why they're going to all this effort if the building is to be largely demolished.

https://news.pollstar.com/2024/09/20/hamilton-arena-to-debut-first-of-kind-floor-suites/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFlHElleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHfnzZ-5rCfvyodb9fig79W6X-A5pweQN1k9ClKldexlebIXDofdh0NSeGA_aem_x7llqq7YLIMnY6vHm-9m4Q

I still think this could have used a tree in the front. Grass seems like a dumb idea because now they've got to mow this postage stamp sized lawn. Tree with some stone and bicycle parking would have been smarter imo

High interest rates and record government underinvestment?

Now that's speculating! We likely won't know until a couple of months for sure but the reality is that the marketing Peeps are told what to say less often than you'd expect. This person didn't realize they are on floor 7 and not floor 5 so I'd hesitate to trust this as fact. We'll see. I have...

I don't fully agree that criticism is cynicism. Being critical is part of the way to making things better. One could argue that then doing nothing past criticism is cynicism, but speaking for myself I'm constantly involved. I email the CoA regularly with feedback, generally supportive, I email...

You don't have to believe the speculation, but I don't see any issue with the speculation itself. It's half what this forum discusses?

I mean... They don't even know that they're on level 7 on the southeast corner... So like 🤷‍♂️. This is just some marketing employee. (Not to discount those people, my partner works in marketing) They don't always know the exact details of a projects.

14th floor forms being installed at the south side, today:

Not too much progress, but it appears they are nearing the end of excavation, digging the last bit out.