There's an update on the planning website regarding this proposal.

The supplementary report is complete and has been reviewed by both committees. The District 12 Planning Advisory Committee forwarded the report to Regional Council without recommendation, and the Heritage Advisory Committee has recommended its approval, with slight changes to the building. Revised plans will accompany the final submission to Regional Council.

So I'm hoping this will go to council by September.

Hopefully, this development's sex appeal is increased....athough I'm not really sure who would want to have sex with a building......whatever

lol -- perhaps many. It's just that none of them would ADMIT to it...

... I've heard that the report is being prepared with the Heritage Advisory Committee requested amendments to go to council for August 11. Then the circus we call Public Hearings. LOL

From the agenda for Tuesday's council meeting (sorry no links available 'til Monday morning);

10.6 HERITAGE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
10.6.1 Case 01162 - Development Agreement, Hollis & Morris Streets
(i) July 17, 2009 Supplementary Staff Report
(ii) Heritage Advisory Committee Report
(iii) District 12 Planning Advisory Committee Report
(iv) June 15, 2009 Supplementary Staff Report
(v) May 13, 2009 Staff Report

From a Chronicle Herald article;

•A proposal for a 10-storey, mixed-use building in downtown Halifax is going to a public hearing. The planned structure is to be built on the corner of Hollis and Morris streets. A date for the hearing hasn’t been set.

Sept. 15, 2009 Halifax Regional Council - 6:00 p.m.

Public Hearing:

Case 01162 - Development Agreement, Hollis & Morris Streets, Halifax. Detailed Information and Staff Report

Here's one rendering provided by the developer that is available at the link above, looking west along Morris Street:

http://www.halifax.ca/planning/image...stOnMorris.jpg

Is that green wall the blank wall they are complaining about in some of the reports? It seems strange to require fake windows on the bottom few floors of a building built right up to the lot line. For highrises I can see it. In this case, given the giant, ugly, empty lot next door I don't think the little wall matters. As long as the lot is empty it will be an ugly spot and if it is developed the wall will be covered.

It's also interesting to look at the bird's eye view of this part of the city. It has come a long way but it still needs a lot of work. Beyond this block there are lots of little holes like the parking lot and little vinyl-sided building at the corner of Barrington/Morris. So many parts of Halifax feel about 75% of the way to being great, but there's no attention to little details.

I don't know if it was that wall as it was planned to be a living wall. But I can't find any other wall that would qualify as a blank wall. so who knows.

I like the pink balconies. I hope they stick with this colour scheme. Very Montreal.

That is the wall that is intended to be the living wall.

On the South elevation of the building there is another blank wall - that is the one that both the Planning and Heritage Advisory Committees complained about.

Nice development, but from the renderings it looks a bit bulky and the various components seem a bit awkward and disconnected. Not enough to complain about though.

TOMORROW NIGHT! :) :) :)

I'm not going to be able to make it. Have to work. Hopefully all goes well though :)

So anybody else watching the public hearing right now?

Yeah, looks like council can't stomach the red balconies. Delefes is going on quite the rant now. I love how they always bring never before heard stories about the area, and why the building would desecrate the area.

Yeah, as usual, along with the normal "It's too tall!!!!" nonsense. He also just proposed that the developer restore a few of the adjunct buildings on the site and that the HRM Planning Dept move in.

Interesting that Watts is gearing up to apply the HRM by Design rules to this despite council's decision not to require that. Not a surprise coming from her -- she has proven to be a very disappointing councillor.

God forbid that someone produce a building with some color on it.

urg... just when I though the Pacey's would be a no-show....

Lol other than the HT the people seem to like it other than the guy who just came up said it was ugly and left.

At least the first HT guy was a bit nicer than Phil normally is but of course Elizabeth is now going on about Charles Morris ...