By Pepper Parr
January 29, 2016
BURLINGTON, ON
Somethings take a long time – some things take a long, long time. Getting the legacy project built on Lakeshore Road immediately east of Elizabeth Street seems to have taken forever.
It is very close to putting a shovel into the ground – the sales office that had all the high end designer furniture is now bare – it was moved out and in the very near future the wrecking ball will roll onto the side that was once home to the Riviera motel and begin tearing down the structure.
Sales office furniture gets moved out – in a couple of years the movers will be trucking in furniture for some of the most expensive residences in the city.
Jeff Paikin, the title of New Horizon Homes
advised the Gazette that sales of the condominium units has passed the 70% point – we assume Paikin is including the unit he bought for his personal use.
The project consists of a 22 storey condominium; a seven story condominium and an eight storey hotel. The expectation is that the project will be opened sometime in 2018. In construction “expectation” is always used.
The downtown core has a number of projects that are in the digging a hole and getting ready to pour concrete stage while others are still firming up financing and others still are getting their site plans into the planning department for final approval.
That “small town feeling” that the Mayor talked about in his State of the City address is was lost some time ago.
View of the Bridgewater development from the corner of Elizabeth and Lakeshore Road. Shovels are expected to go into the ground soon.
The hotel is expected to be a Marriott with a four star rating. Plans for major changes to the Waterfront hotel are also in the planning stage.
The well underway construction of the first two towers of the five tower Paradigm project on Fairview immediately south of the Burlington GO station has the potential to stretch the core of the city all the way from Lakeshore Road to Fairview.
Spencer Smith – the man the lakefront park was named after – he was once a green grocer with a shop on Brant street – would hardly recognize the city that is growing “up”
