Hamilton 117 George Street | 78.96m | 23s | Coletara Development | Kozlowski Architect

[Paclo]

220-222 Main Street West and 115-117 George Street: a proposed 23-storey mixed-use residential and commercial building designed by Kozlowski Architect for Coletara on the northeast corner of Main Street West and Queen Street South in Hamilton's Hess Village.

Renders from the Design Review Panel Presentation of February 2021:

 

[Amare]

Hess Village is actually going to turn into a nightmare with all these butt ugly builds being proposed. And that retail at ground level looks absolutely embarassing.

 

[Chris R.]

Site plan: DA-23-069

"To develop a 23-storey mixed-use building with 317 residential units. The existing 2.5 storey building is to be retained and renovated to include at-grade commercial space and 3 residential units above. Includes 158 parking spaces."

Interestingly this site plan application is listed at 220 Main St W. I assumed the 2.5 storey building is the one fronting George Street. Honestly, the whole building should be retail, I don't think it makes much sense to both with residential here. Could have a larger retail space that way, but whatever, just glad it's not going to be vacant.

What's odd is that they seemingly just rented the commercial units at the southwest corner building which is going to be demolished.

Wonder when we'll see this one start, likely not for a long time at the rate they're moving on the property kitty-corner (Apex) by the same developer.


Hoping the design has changed to look less like the Platinum too, white and black Lego block look is... Uhm, not great more than once in an area, and this will be numéro 3.

 

[innsertnamehere]

Site Plan application filed here:

DA-23-069 220 MAIN ST W To develop a 23-storey mixed-use building with 317 residential units. The existing 2.5-storey building is to be retained and renovated to include at-grade commercial space and 3 residential units above, Includes 158 parking spaces.

edit: @RitsmaCW beat me to it!

 

[TheHonestMaple]

I hope the city recognizes how bad Platinum turned out, and forces this architect to do better.

 

[KingJames]

Always hoping for better

 

[Chris R.]

So based on documents available from the Ward 2 Development map, it seems he design of this has changed. They also seem to have conditional approval, and the large retail units at grade remain:

 

[FF407]

Looks worse. Honestly it just looks like the drawing for the Craptara design at 96 Main E.

Infact it even looks.kike this proposal from them as well at 101 Hunter.

101 Hunter Street East | 92.55m | 27s | Coletara Development | Kozlowski Architect

New 27 storey building directly beside Hamilton GO station downtown. Coletara currently has one condo downtown under construction and another in sales close to Hess Village, so this seems likely to be built. This really shows how low the Hamilton height limit is - you can see how much taller...

urbantoronto.ca

 

[Chris R.]

Looks worse. Honestly it just looks like the drawing for the Craptara design at 96 Main E.

Infact it even looks.kike this proposal from them as well at 101 Hunter.

101 Hunter Street East | 92.55m | 27s | Coletara Development | Kozlowski Architect

New 27 storey building directly beside Hamilton GO station downtown. Coletara currently has one condo downtown under construction and another in sales close to Hess Village, so this seems likely to be built. This really shows how low the Hamilton height limit is - you can see how much taller...

urbantoronto.ca

Coletara doesn't seem to want to be known for their inspiring design. Additionally, they seem fully unserious about moving any of their like 7 projects forward.

 

[innsertnamehere]

This one seems to be the next one they are going to push forward - but yea, they have a lot sitting through the zoning stage right now in no particular rush.

 

[TheHonestMaple]

What about Apex?

 

[Chris R.]

While driving past, I saw some guy removing stuff from inside the George St facing building. Dunno what's going on here. Maybe fixing it up to rent out since Coletera don't really seem ready to move forward with any other development for the time being? They've also rented the building fronting Main as well.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

What about Apex?

Doesn't have the sales to proceed. Coletara should consider flipping some of their sites (like Apex) to rental and moving forward. A few of them are in attractive downtown Hamilton locations.