[URBAN NOTE] On what the Broadview Hotel looks like now
Back in May 2014, I noted that the Broadview Hotel at Queen and Broadview was set for a sweeping renovation. The aim is to repeat in east-end Toronto something that happened with the Drake and Gladstone in west-end Toronto, to make a down-at-the-hells hotel (this one, known for strip joint Jilly's) into a high-end boutique hotel.
To this end, the entire hotel was wrapped up tightly in construction cladding while it was subjected to repairs. I took the below picture in November of 2015.
Now? Urban Toronto's David Rudin reported on what the repairs' completion and showed what it looked like now.
The Broadview Hotel, until recently home to one of Toronto’s last licensed strip clubs, was itself stripped of its temporary drapes on Wednesday when scaffolding on the corner of Broadview and Queen streets came down and the newly-renovated boutique hotel showed its buffed skin for an assembled audience.
The ERA Architects-designed project, which is being led by Streetcar Developments, will eventually be home to a 57-room boutique hotel, restaurants and bars operated by the team behind Enoteca Ascari, along with event spaces. While the exterior and mechanical aspects of the renovation are now largely complete, the hotel’s interior will not be completed and ready for opening until the spring of 2017.
“I don’t know how many times people said, ‘When’s something going to happen with Jilly’s?’” Ward 30 councillor Paula Fletcher said before the unveiling. Through various iterations, the 125-year-old building has long been the architectural anchor of the Riverside neighbourhood, but over that time its use rarely matched up with its position.
“So many people have wanted to restore Jilly’s to its beautiful glory,” Fletcher said.
Gentrification notwithstanding, this is beautiful.
To this end, the entire hotel was wrapped up tightly in construction cladding while it was subjected to repairs. I took the below picture in November of 2015.
Now? Urban Toronto's David Rudin reported on what the repairs' completion and showed what it looked like now.
The Broadview Hotel, until recently home to one of Toronto’s last licensed strip clubs, was itself stripped of its temporary drapes on Wednesday when scaffolding on the corner of Broadview and Queen streets came down and the newly-renovated boutique hotel showed its buffed skin for an assembled audience.
The ERA Architects-designed project, which is being led by Streetcar Developments, will eventually be home to a 57-room boutique hotel, restaurants and bars operated by the team behind Enoteca Ascari, along with event spaces. While the exterior and mechanical aspects of the renovation are now largely complete, the hotel’s interior will not be completed and ready for opening until the spring of 2017.
“I don’t know how many times people said, ‘When’s something going to happen with Jilly’s?’” Ward 30 councillor Paula Fletcher said before the unveiling. Through various iterations, the 125-year-old building has long been the architectural anchor of the Riverside neighbourhood, but over that time its use rarely matched up with its position.
“So many people have wanted to restore Jilly’s to its beautiful glory,” Fletcher said.
Gentrification notwithstanding, this is beautiful.