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Plans advancing at Hamilton’s Eastgate Square mall redevelopment would see a trio of 20-storey towers on a portion of the site. Designed by BDP Quadrangle for Harrison Equity Partners, the proposal for "Block 6" forms part of the larger transformation of the Eastgate Square property in Hamilton’s Eastgate neighbourhood, where a master plan calls for 19 towers up to 20 storeys alongside retail, community space, and new public areas.
The mixed-use project, positioned beside the planned Eastgate terminus of Hamilton’s B-Line LRT, will be reviewed by the City’s Design Review Panel on March 12, 2026, as one of the early development blocks to come forward within the larger mall redevelopment site.
Eastgate Square its mostly an enclosed shopping centre at the centre of the block, surrounded by surface parking, with a couple of free standing buildings, plus a Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) bus terminal accessed from Queenston Road. This proposal applies to a 9,460m² site at the northwest corner of Queenston Road and Centennial Parkway North, and currently contains a Beer Store building that would be demolished, along with surrounding surface parking. The surrounding area features a mix of commercial plazas and low- to mid-rise residential buildings.
Opened in the early 1970s, Eastgate Square has long served as a major retail and community hub for Hamilton’s eastern neighbourhoods and the now amalgamated Stoney Creek. In recent years, the ownership has been planning a large-scale transformation as housing demand across the Greater Golden Horseshoe has encouraged intensification of underused commercial lands. Early concepts released in 2022 envisioned a much taller skyline with towers reaching up to 42 storeys. A revised Draft Plan of Subdivision presented to Hamilton’s Planning Committee in December, 2024 scaled the proposal to 19 residential towers ranging from 16 to 20 storeys.
Plans for Block 6 call for a mixed-use development with three residential towers rising 20 storeys each to a height of 75.75m, arranged above a shared five-storey podium. The towers would be positioned to frame the corner while maintaining recommended tower separations of roughly 25m. Tower floor-plates are planned at roughly 800m². Within the podium, a two-storey breezeway would break up the mass of the building base.
Across the development, the project would deliver 696 residential units within a total Gross Floor Area of 51,667m². Of this, 49,728m² would be dedicated to residential space, while 1,939m² would accommodate non-residential uses. These include approximately 1,174m² of commercial space and 765m² of community space.
Each tower would be served by three elevators, equating to roughly one elevator for every 77 units, indicating short wait times during normal service. Parking would be accommodated in a three-level underground garage, providing a total of 696 vehicular parking spaces, including 659 spaces for residents and 37 visitor spaces.
The site sits directly beside the planned Eastgate terminus of Hamilton’s B-Line LRT, which will run along Queenston Road. Plans for the broader redevelopment also include a relocated HSR bus terminal within the new development blocks. In addition, the Confederation GO station, recently opened roughly 1km north of the site, provides Lakeshore West rail service to Union Station in Toronto.
Hamilton’s east end continues to evolve. To the east, 928 Queenston Road calls for a 14-storey residential building, while to the north of the site, plans at 150 Centennial Parkway North would introduce a 15-storey building, alongside a 17-storey proposal at 2481 Barton Street East, and the Parkway Plaza redevelopment envisions four towers ranging from 17 to 20 storeys.
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