650 Bay St Boutique Hotel Redevelopment (Lanterra, ?s, ?)

[Addy]

Some pictures of the work already being done at the hotel...

Looks like Andrew beat me to posting it...

http://addysaeed.com/treblog/?p=1929

 

[Towered]

Please tell me that the rest of the white paint is going to be stripped off...

 

[drum118]

Please tell me that the rest of the white paint is going to be stripped off...

If not, we should hold a peeling party to do it, as that is hard on the eyes now.

When I saw the for lease sign in the window about a week or so ago, I thought it bit the dust as it was not going to fly as plan.

If the owner ties into the properties beside them, good investment return down the road for them.

 

[adma]

At least on the street walls, stripping the white paint is redundant; they're recladding w/limestone--a result of the brick being in such awful condition in the first place. (And as a "devaluing" of the property from a heritage standpoint, it'd probably make it an easier bet for future redevelopment. Note that I'm saying that neutrally, rather than negative-judgmentally.)

 

[Loozrboy]

Wow, whoever made that rendering is pretty handy with MS Paint .

 

[egotrippin]

Hey, the MS Paint in Windows 7 is actually pretty advanced; huge technological leap from the previous versions. Still, what an embarrassing "rendering".

 

[Loozrboy]

Still, what an embarrassing "rendering".

It certainly is comically amateurish, but it has a certain charm to it. Obviously this isn't the slick marketing machine of a multimillion dollar condo development we're dealing with here... I'm imagining somebody's nephew slaving away at the computer for hours putting that image together. So I wasn't being entirely sarcastic. :->

 

[Automation Gallery]

I say implode it.....this is just a temporary fix for a future development.

 

[Addy]

The rendering is hand drawn... Yes, there isn't a multimillion dollar marketing machine behind this project and we're trying to make as much information available as possible.

Hope it gives you an idea of what the building would look like.

 

[drum118]

July 14
The paint party has been cancel due to the fact the building is being tile. Not a good site.

 

[neuhaus]

^^^ you can't be serious.

that's very hideous.

 

[AlbertC]

This is right beside my office, and I walk by it almost every day. This cover up job looks horrendous.

 

[DSC]

I just walked past it - talk about putting lipstick on a pig - and not doing it very well either!

 

[Automation Gallery]

..Is it possible that they can hack this structure to death without the city intervening...i thought this was a heritage building.

 

[cdr108]

the tiles are obviously dirty from tile mortar, etc but the tiles look like they were purchased in bulk from HD or the like.

let's hope the final product looks substantially better