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Exciting!

Scotiabank Arena has held the groundbreaking ceremony for the second phase of its $350 million renovation: https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/renovations-begin-on-torontos-scotiabank-arena-home-of-the-maple-leafs-and-raptors/

Nice!! It's for real!

Maybe they don't, and maybe there is no need to share more or even appetite for it, but it is still a city-owned building for civic use and they have taken some pains to stress that this is a true public-private partnership. And they also stated back in September that they would share more...

Hopefully this HUPEG/OVG team-up yields some amazing results (and it looks like it might), but communication does not seem to be their strong suit, at least to the public. I think I can sympathize with the sports teams that were upset by not knowing what was going on.

It's beautiful

Interesting. The link to the release from the Baltimore CFG Bank Arena OVG renovation groundbreaking is here: https://www.oakviewgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Baltimore-Arena-Groundbreaking.pdf It was very similar in terms of upgrades (exterior facade, concourses, suites, et cetera) and...

So the Rock are done for the season. Are we in full-on reno mode or what?

Summary: Downtown Hamilton is in trouble because of vagrancy/drugs... maybe this project can help improve things. The arena is hopefully getting a $280 million renovation that is real and starting very soon. We do not know many details about that renovation or updates to other infrastructure...

From what I can tell, there is very little info out there...

I can't speak to the 90s, but downtown Hamilton certainly looks like it has noticeably slid backwards over the past few years. Regardless, it is in a really really bad state today.

There has been really very little news surrounding the whole project recently. With the way that most of downtown Hamilton has been rapidly becoming a vagrant/druggie wasteland recently, it almost feels like the closure/move of that shelter would not make a meaningful difference.

I wonder if they will be sharing updated renderings or details of the work to be performed. Still a bit nervous about this whole thing.

I know that this is a tall building, but does it look a bit stumpy to anyone? Especially from an angle like in the above pic...

Would be very cool, but man... with the state of downtown Hamilton and the volume of homeless/vagrants/lost people, I am struggling to see who would want to live there.