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Buildings like that are a dime a dozen in this city..if its that bad, i say junk it.
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650 Bay St Boutique Hotel Redevelopment (Lanterra, ?s, ?)
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Buildings like that are a dime a dozen in this city..if its that bad, i say junk it.
greenleaf
Senior Member
I'm glad this is getting renovated. The more buildings like this we save, the better.
junctionist
Senior Member
That's a good point. A lot of buildings of this age may have similar issues, so it's worth setting a renovation precedent or we could lose a lot.
HHC
Active Member
It's impossible to even see what potential it has at the moment... as the white paint makes it 10x as ugly, but we'll have to wait and see.
buildup
Senior Member
That was a $60 per night rooming house/hotel. I dont even want to imagine what transpired there. I usually worry about getting roaches or bedbugs on my coat just walking past.
SP!RE
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I saw a documentary that featured a prostitute who was severely drug-addicted who worked in the hotel that used to be there until a few months ago; she got calls all day from Bay Street businessmen looking for sex. Good times.
ProjectEnd
Superstar
Maybe in their first week on the job perhaps - every baby banker knows the first rule of finance in Toronto is that the $1500+ girls are to be found in Ki.
College Park
Active Member
Some things can't get scrubbed out...and unless they gut the walls down to brick, something will remain hiding.
buildup
Senior Member
Ki?
adma
Superstar
Incidentally, lacking plans or renderings, who says this "boutique hotel" notion is a "heritage gesture"; or whether, like Hakim or many a facadist act, it's property-tax-saving "renovation opportunism"...
College Park
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I guess some hacker doing the job.
jn_12
Senior Member
There used to be a couple reviews/pictures of the Bay St Hotel on Tripadvisor but it looks like they've been removed since the hotel was closed. I seem to remember exposed wires in the shower and some bullet holes in the walls. Needless to say it was one of the lowest ranked hotels in the city.
Torontovibe
Senior Member
The brick looked like that even before the paint was removed. I checked it out a few weeks ago and noticed that the bricks were in a really bad state, with chips and chunks missing. I don't think you can blame it on the removal of paint.
College Park
Active Member
Seriously! The whole building looks like it has been nibbled by rats.