The Holiday Court Motel site on Hillside Ave. between Douglas and Blanshard streets is planned to become an 8-storey office project. The groundfloor is planned for retail.
BUILT Midtown Court Uses: office, commercial Address: 740 Hillside Avenue Municipality: Victoria Region: Urban core Storeys: 6 |
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[Burnside/Gorge] Midtown Court (Andrew Sheret office building) | Office | 6-storeys | Built - completed in 2014
#1
Posted 20 May 2010 - 03:45 PM
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#2
Posted 20 May 2010 - 04:07 PM
Hopefully whatever rises in place of the Holiday Court will be an infinitely superior design. However, this is Victoria after all, so I am not holding my breath. Be very happy to be proven wrong though.....
#3
Posted 20 May 2010 - 04:11 PM
#4
Posted 20 May 2010 - 08:19 PM
I'm also no fan of Ross Place (I'd say the new building at the Jubilee Hospital is uglier, but that's just me).
But if Royal Oak and the Selkirk and Vic West are all worthy of perfectly attractive office buildings then surely Hillside & Douglas can be worthy of the same?
Surely??
#5
Posted 23 May 2010 - 05:45 AM
Office tower to replace storied motel
By Bill Cleverley, Times Colonist, Times Colonist May 23, 2010
An eight-storey office building with ground-floor retail is planned for the site of the infamous Holiday Court Motel on Hillside Avenue near Douglas Street.
Read more: http://www.timescolo...l#ixzz0olBEC8HF
So if AS leaves their current buildings, maybe something can come of all that funny mess at Douglas/Bay/Kings.
#6
Posted 23 May 2010 - 07:14 AM
If they are in front this should be turned down immediately!
#7
Posted 23 May 2010 - 08:36 AM
#8
Posted 23 May 2010 - 09:12 AM
Seems like an odd combination to me. There will be a wholesale distibution and warehousing centre, a retail store, 8 stories of offices and a day care?
Well, they have all of that now less the daycare. They have been able to use (legally or otherwise) the public street of Westbourne Plc. for very short-term storage of big loads coming in by trailer.
I would think they'd need that surface parking at the back near the loading dock(s) to load up incoming plumbers' trucks.
#9
Posted 23 May 2010 - 10:31 AM
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#10
Posted 23 May 2010 - 11:42 AM
Read more: http://www.timescolo...l#ixzz0olBEC8HF
So if AS leaves their current buildings, maybe something can come of all that funny mess at Douglas/Bay/Kings.
Did you guys catch the title of the article: "Office tower to replace storied motel." Are you freaking serious? Eight stories it what constitutes a tower in this town? I think this is why the rest of the world takes us so seriously. God, we suck.
#11
Posted 23 May 2010 - 02:19 PM
Seems to me a true "tower" is....well like the CN Tower for instance because, um, "tower" is in the name. Technically I seem to recall reading an architecture article many years ago that for many architects a structure was only truly regarded as a TOWER if it were 40 stories or higher.
Funnier still than this Hillside development is the fact that along Gorge Rd East buried amongst the plethora of 'same-style apartments' that characterize and typify much of Victoria's so-called architecture (yawn), there is one called "Gorge Towers". Grand total height? Three stories. And no, I am not kidding.
#12
Posted 23 May 2010 - 03:13 PM
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#13
Posted 23 May 2010 - 03:50 PM
#14
Posted 23 May 2010 - 04:02 PM
However, and perhaps someone can confirm this, the City of Victoria's definitions of building heights states that a building of 7 or more storeys is a "tower."
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#15
Posted 23 May 2010 - 04:25 PM
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Posted 23 May 2010 - 04:57 PM
#17
Posted 23 May 2010 - 08:18 PM
In Victoria's terms though, BC place would be a tower, the empress is a tower, just about any stadium would be a tower. The word loses all meaning.
#18
Posted 23 May 2010 - 08:57 PM
#19
Posted 23 May 2010 - 09:03 PM
Victoria is also one of those odd places in which a proposed building can be smeared as a tower even though there are much larger/taller buildings around it that aren't towers.
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Posted 24 May 2010 - 12:20 AM
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I wonder, is the vacant lot behind Long & McQuade part of this development as well?
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