Hotel
Delta Centre-Ville, Montreal, Canada
Architect
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David, Boulva, Cleve
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Date
Built
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1976 |
Location
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777 University
Street
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Description
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This huge hotel building,
with its rotating rooftop restaurant,
originally offered visitors 764 guest rooms
over 30 floors. Over the years the
number of rooms has fallen to 711 but that
still qualifies it as enormous. An
entry on the "tourisme-montreal.org" website
says of the restaurant that, " It’s
open on Friday and Saturday evenings for
elaborate, themed buffet dinners, and
for Sunday brunch– a popular destination
for both locals and tourists alike. If
you’re not familiar with the rotating
concept, the circular dining room makes
a complete 360-degree spin in about 60
minutes, making it an ideal place to
take a tour of the city while chowing
down."
They add that, "If
you’re going all out, I also suggest one
of the fabulous two-story, New York
loft-style suites that have
awe-inspiring floor-to-ceiling windows."
However, soon after these images were taken
the hotel closed. The CBC News website
announced on July
9, 2013 that, "The 711 rooms
at Montreal's Delta Centre-Ville Hotel
will be transformed into a student
residence by 2014, the hotel chain
announced Tuesday. Delta
said earlier this month that
it would close the hotel on October
31. Campus Crest Communities and
Beaumont Partners have joined forces to
buy the 33-storey tower located near Old
Montreal for $60 million. The new
owners will begin reserving the
units in September for rental
in the fall of 2014.
.... Once the renovations are completed,
the former Delta Centre-Ville will offer
students a gym, library and technology
centre. Major universities near the
proposed student residence are
McGill, Concordia and l'École de
technologie supérieure, part of the
Université du Québec à Montreal."
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