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[bomberjet]

It's actually not for BP. It's for the food court. They had live music up there on lunch hours last year. I think every Tuesday as part of the downtown thing the Biz puts on.

[robertocarlos]

Originally Posted by Wolf13

How long has that bp had a rooftop patio???

I think it belongs to all of City Place. At least 5 years. I forget when I ate my last double cheeseburger and small fries on that patio.

[cheswick]

Originally Posted by robertocarlos

I think it belongs to all of City Place. At least 5 years. I forget when I ate my last double cheeseburger and small fries on that patio.

Yeah over 5 years for sure. My wife (then gf) was working at BP like 7 years ago and at the time there was the patio and there was talk at BP that they were looking at building their own on the roof with access from the restaurant. That obviously never materialized.

[1ajs]

Originally Posted by Biff

Same as always - bump to keep the updating photo on the current page...

Bump

[cllew]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

^Tim's needs a business line-up, like at the bank.

Some Tim's locations like the one in the Richardson Bldg have an express coffee only line in the morning.

I was on midnight's last week but when I went down to the 2nd floor of City Place to use the ATM I saw that there are now the snake lines to control the crowds of Customres at both Tim's and the Zaa Pizza. I don't think that McDonald' s at CP ever had a crowd control line set up.

[DLLB]

Starting to get real interesting. :-)

[The Jabroni]

Man, I'm super stoked that this is coming along very nicely. So much more density into our downtown now.

[BAKGUY]

Originally Posted by cheswick

Yeah over 5 years for sure. My wife (then gf) was working at BP like 7 years ago and at the time there was the patio and there was talk at BP that they were looking at building their own on the roof with access from the restaurant. That obviously never materialized.

I can tell you that the City Place Patio has been around sicen the 80's for certain.

[BAKGUY]

Originally Posted by cllew

Some Tim's locations like the one in the Richardson Bldg have an express coffee only line in the morning.

I was on midnight's last week but when I went down to the 2nd floor of City Place to use the ATM I saw that there are now the snake lines to control the crowds of Customres at both Tim's and the Zaa Pizza. I don't think that McDonald' s at CP ever had a crowd control line set up.

McDonald' s at CP was a zoo for the first several years ..They opened sometime before the mid 90's and took several places from the food court within opening. Pizza place just folded when McDonald' s offered McPizza back then.
I went to Pizza Plac not only for pizza but more so for their fabulous zesty spaghetti.
The line ups were ridiculously long always with no control.

[esquire]

^ that McDonald's is the only thing that's busy in the food court​ outside of weekday lunchtimes. That's why I'm kind of surprised that the Winnipeg Square location didn't last.

[bomberjet]

Originally Posted by cllew

Some Tim's locations like the one in the Richardson Bldg have an express coffee only line in the morning.

I was on midnight's last week but when I went down to the 2nd floor of City Place to use the ATM I saw that there are now the snake lines to control the crowds of Customres at both Tim's and the Zaa Pizza. I don't think that McDonald' s at CP ever had a crowd control line set up.

Yeah, you're right they do have express lines.

They just put up the mazes last week. About time, cleared up the walkway nicely. They had to either remove or rearrange some tables for the Tims line.

[bomberjet]

Originally Posted by BAKGUY

I can tell you that the City Place Patio has been around sicen the 80's for certain.

Maybe 5 years ago they renovated the space. The wooden deck and railing doesn't look too old.

[oftheMoon]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

Maybe 5 years ago they renovated the space. The wooden deck and railing doesn't look too old.

The patio was redone a couple years ago. It's a very nice landscaped space with planters and trees.

[hexrae]

Originally Posted by oftheMoon

The patio was redone a couple years ago. It's a very nice landscaped space with planters and trees.

Yup, nice place to grab a bite in the summer months.

[cllew]

I don't mind having my morning coffee break on the deck other than last summer the piling and excavation work made it louder than normal. Probably this year we will be hearing the concrete trucks idling and discharging into the pump bay on Hargrave.

[Wolf13]

Well gosh darn, they should advertise that patio more. Any food court meal is better than anything you could get at Tavern United anyway.

[bomberjet]

On the residential tower, you can see the fancy flare out the building does at the south west corner. The bigger, round columns would be the main rectangular building. The thinner columns outline the flare out. If you follow.

[CoryB]

Originally Posted by robertocarlos

I think it belongs to all of City Place. At least 5 years. I forget when I ate my last double cheeseburger and small fries on that patio.

It used to be the doors to the CityPlace patio still had the original "ep" logo from the Eaton's Place days. The patio was also closed down around the time the skywalk was under construction. From memory it stayed closed a year or two after construction from completed. Based on the logos on the doors I think it would date back to when the mall conversion was initially done on the space.

[Cyro]

Originally Posted by Biff

Whoa, whoa, whoa....don't go wishing for things you may not want. First, there is immense pressure to watch this thread every couple of minutes to ensure that the live cam image gets transferred over when a new page starts in a timely fashion, then you have the young guns like Jabroni who come in and try to upstage you and make you irrelevant. Not to mention the years of schooling, volunteering, hours spent away from the family.....it's more taxing than you think.

lol..I never thought about it in quite these terms. There is a lot that goes into the page bump..Thinking about it now, I'll have no part in it..

[biguc]

Originally Posted by Wolf13

Well gosh darn, they should advertise that patio more. Any food court meal is better than anything you could get at Tavern United anyway.

Except booze. And the opportunity to aggressively creep out women.