From Paul Wilson's article in today's Spec about the CHCH building.
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CHCH needs less space now, and more money. So they've sold the 166-year-old house, plus the silver 1980s Spaceship 11 behind it. It's a $7-million deal.
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And this spring Channel Zero put the CHCH property up for sale. When the deal closes next week, a company called Television City Inc. takes over. The principals are Aaron Collina of Hamilton's Movengo Corp., and Brad Lamb, a Toronto condo developer whose projects include the new 47-storey Theatre Park, next door to the Royal Alexandra on King West.
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The Pinehurst portion is protected under the Ontario Heritage Act and that's fine with him.
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As for Spaceship 11, he says, "I see something like a Google headquarters there."
Or maybe a condo, he says, built right on top of it.
But CHCH will rent half the Spaceship for the next two-and-a-half years, and a tenant is being sought for the remaining space.
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Collina and company are doing other things in the core. They've purchased the London Tap House building at Main and John. On Main near Walnut, they're planning an eight-storey office tower.
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Collina says he'd like to build CHCH a new space that would keep the station downtown.
Went down to City Hall today to look at the formal plans for the new forensics lab. Materials that will be used include Black Brick, Black Aluminum, Aluminum Screens, Fritted Curtain Wall, and Limestone. The design has changed slightly since it was last seen, but in my opinion for the better.
This might end up being the most "modern" looking building in the core.
Oh wow, Brad Lamb is doing a project in Hamilton now?
Hasn't he been doing stuff in Edmonton lately? Hamilton has some characters akin to Edmonton (lots of empty lots, industrial culture, etc.), so that might be giving him ideas?
It is no longer owned by Scotiabank, as per today's Paul Wilson Article. It is owned by Aragon Properties of Vancouver. In fact they own most of the north side of King between Hughson and James.
Design update for the church/affordable housing development at James & Picton by Hughson Street Baptist Church and Indwell. Design is by Invizij Architects.
I live nearby and wondered why they just don't demo it and rebuild like what has been built on Plains Road recently with retail on the bottom and residential above.
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