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The Montrose Wintergarden Hotel is a proposal along the 700-block of Fort Street at Blanshard Street to build a 20-storey highrise hotel tower catering to younger travellers in downtown Victoria's Harris Green neighbourhood.
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The heritage designation part of this proposal was considered at Heritage Advisory Panel last month, and the minutes are now available: https://www.victoria.ca/assets/City~Hall/Committees/Other~Committees/Heritage~Advisory~Panel/Minutes/2021/1%20-%202021-02-09%20-%20HAPL%20Minutes.pdf
Summary: developer does not proposed seismic upgrades, HAP recommends support only if seismic upgrades and storefront restoration are included
...Summary: developer does not proposed seismic upgrades, HAP recommends support only if seismic upgrades and storefront restoration are included
I don't see this as an unreasonable request as long as the city doesn't demand a tower only half as tall as proposed.
This is going to COTW on Thursday April 1. Staff are in support of this moving to a public hearing (not an April Fool's Day joke!).
This is going to COTW on Thursday April 1. Staff are in support of this moving to a public hearing (not an April Fool's Day joke!).
A proposal for a 20-storey hotel at Fort and Blanshard streets will be heading to a public hearing following a Thursday morning vote by Victoria councillors.
Discussions will continue with developer Merchant House Capital about ways to protect tenants as the neighbouring three-storey 1912 Montrose building is upgraded in coming years.
Stephen Andrew put this one out on his FB page for public response and feedback and predictably all the complainers and whiners and bleaters and haters of anything built after 1955 came out in droves with usual BS nimby commentary - its too much like Vancouver, it will become a mini-Vancouver, it too tall, its too tall for Victoria, it will cast too much shade, it will overpower the cathedral, yadda yadda yadda. My favorite comment was that it was "un-Victorian" - whatever the hell that means. Good grief Victoria is a city, not some musty museum standing still in a vacuum in time - much as some of these people clearly wish it were so.
20-storey Montrose Wintergarden Hotel proposal unveiled for Blanshard at Fort
128-room hotel includes three-storey garden atrium space described as a 'wintergarden.'
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65.5 meter tall hotel with "unique tower design" hopes to tap into the tech-savvy millennial travel market.
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