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257 Belleville Street is a proposal for an eight-storey condominium along the 200-block of Belleville Street in the City of Victoria's James Bay neighbourhood.
The property is currently occupied by a shuttered 33-suite hotel known as the Admiral Inn.
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Nope. Check the profile here: http://victoria.citified.ca/condos/257-belleville-street/
It's still a bit pyramid-ish. I would have loved to have seen the original design built:
A proposed eight-storey condominium project that would replace the Admiral Inn in James Bay has been granted another development permit, almost 14 years after it was first approved.
The 35-unit residential project at 257 Belleville St. was first green-lit by Victoria council in 2011.
While council voted unanimously on Thursday to move forward the stalled project with its fifth development permit, many councillors weren’t happy about it.
“I dislike everything about this project — I think the city has gotten played,” said Coun. Jeremy Caradonna. “I think if this [project] were to come to us today as a rezoning — which it’s not — but if it were, we would be handling it very differently.”
“If we actually want new housing in the city, we need to give the development industry some assurance that when things come forward, we’re going to support that,” he said. “Developers aren’t going to build in Victoria if they’re worried that we’re going to change the rules every time a project comes forward." - Matt Dell
Well said.
“The applicant could take this back and rethink it and come back with a proposal that has a lot more housing. We should probably be looking at something that’s much bigger,” he said.
Meanwhile, another project barely a block away at Quebec Street & Montreal Street was forced to scale down because it was deemed to be too big.
