Chronamut said:
I aam curious as to what retail is proposed for here - It'd be cool to have some restaurants in this building pulling traffic from king william to this area...
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I'd have to imagine it's going to be a lot of utilitarian stuff. Hamilton will be a bit different in a few years when this is done, but I suspect at least one coffee shop, I'm betting a Starbs. I wonder if the larger unit would have room for a gym... I'd really like a discount gym downtown again. Probably at least 1 nicer resto, and maybe a franchise-esque bar like Plank, but more well known. Like a Beertown or a Rust or Barra Fion style pub from Burlington.
 
Seems work was mostly stopped today, likely due to wind. Tried to get some photos on the ground to see if in fact the POPS part between the building and the church is no longer part of the project. Couldn't really get a good vantage point, but this Utility box in the one photo, is right where the POPS would be, so unless it's planned to be moved, they may have moved the POPS to the north edge to create a better mid-block cross through.

A bit unfortunate if true because the church is a really nice building and I feel like they may have been able to use the space for events and such outdoors. Also looks like Skygrid located themselves into an office across the street in one of the buildings purchased by Emblem.
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That's what I figured happened. Shifted the tower south, and moved the pedestrian space to the north side of tower 3. Should be very clear in the next week or so once they finish pouring the foundation for tower 3.

I was by the site at around 11AM and work was in full swing. So they must have stopped due to wind later on.
 
Ground floor forms for "phase 2" building are in place. Still very curious what the plan is here. Perhaps I'll reach out to the city asking if there are new phasing plans or site plan documents. There's no way there's enough room here for the third tower at the moment. So I do wonder what the heck the plan is. We will likely know just from looking in a few months, but it's a mishmash at the moment.
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TheHonestMaple said:
Yeah they've pretty clearly shifted the third tower south. There definitely is no longer a 25m gap.
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I don't know that this is true. They have a trailer set up where the walkway would be planned, so I think it could theoretically still be there. It looks to me like they're just building the south half of the third tower, but it's a very odd plan.
 
I feel they are going to do the whole podium part of the development then wait to start tower 3.
 
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Taken today. Solid progress since I last took some shots, two weeks ago.

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It looks like the area around the church is still there from those pictures, thanks for the photos from above.

That means that the tower wasn't shifted south, but then one wonders what they are doing over there since they didn't seem to drive piles far enough north to support the tower?

See the ground floor plan and your photo with the church edge in red:
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