As many of you noticed, Vince DiCosimo Jr left a comment on my last posting about the Hilton progress. I emailed him and asked about the height of the building and this is his response:
It is every difficult to explain floors as not all the floors in the hotel are the same height. You will notice when looking at the building the lower floors are almost three stories in height for each floor. The typical room floor height is 8 feet but we do have several room floors in the building which are closer to 12 ft for mechanical reasons. With all that being said, I would say the building will be 53 stories in height which includes some higher floors at the top for mechanical and roof.
It’s still confusing to me, but we’ll go with the 53 number from now on. Incidentally, Vince said after Labour Day he’d take me through the building…
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I’m somewhat disappointed… so the building is not going to be as tall as originally planned? I thought it was supposed to be 60 something floors when complete or is that the Rainbow Tower Hotel at Casino Niagara?
The height and number of storys changed several times during the development of this project. The final submittal to the city called for 52 storys and (I believe) a height of about 550ft. As Mr. DiCosimo Jr explained, there is no set standard for story height, so the number of storys is really meaningless. I would think that the building permit was issued for a certain height, and if they can fit 53 storys or 70 storys within that height, it doesn’t make it any taller.
i think it originally planned for 52…
…way back when.
I think orgininally they wanted it to be 57 stories while the Rainbow would have been 59. A year or so ago, the Hilton revised it to be 53 stories, so it has been revised for awhile now. Very nice of Vince to give you a tour Graham, enjoy.
One of the big shots in the falls needs to go all Dubai on us and build a 100+ story hotel, condo, casino & tourist attraction make it the tallest building in North America!!! =)
i don’t know smoke, there are some buildings in toronto that have have already played the dubai role!
ya, and dubai is making some building double cn tower, so, ya know, thats not so easy any more. lol
Dubai has a lot of money. I don’t think NF needs a 100 story mega
structure. Plus NF doesn’t have in infrastructure to handle it.
If there going to be a penthouse resturant?
But what about all the birds that would fly into a 100 story Dubaian structure?!?!?!!? : ) Sorry – kidding – for anyone who was in on a string last week.
too bad, birds. lol
Hey Graham, did you ever get your tour?
No, not yet. I was supposed to contact Vince and I haven’t. I’ve been thinking about it, so I’ll try to arrange something soon.