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City ready to issue permits for waterfront hotel

THUNDER BAY - The start date for resuming construction on the Mariott-Delta hotel at Prince Arthur’s Landing is now in the hands of the developer.
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Chief building official with the city of Thunder Bay, Desmond Stolz. (Doug Diaczuk, tbnewswatch.com)

THUNDER BAY - The start date for resuming construction on the Mariott-Delta hotel at Prince Arthur’s Landing is now in the hands of the developer.

Chief building official with the city of Thunder Bay, Desmond Stolz, said the city is very close to issuing the permit for the construction of the hotel superstructure.

Before the city can issue the permit, they still need two pieces of information from the hotel developer, including information on the loading dock on the west side of the building and a revised site plan.

“Once we receive those two pieces of information, we are ready to issue,” Stolz said on Wednesday.

ReSolve Group Inc. submitted plans last June and were supposed to resume construction at the start of the month, however, the city issued a letter to ReSolve in the same month to inform them of the outstanding information and have been waiting for the information since that time.

“Once we receive the information we need, we can issue that permit within a day or two,” Stolz said.

“We’re hoping that if the information comes in next week, we can issue the permit next week.”

The 150-room hotel project on the waterfront was originally scheduled to open in 2014.

Construction on the superstructure was delayed until September 2015, following the completion of the foundation, parkade, and part of the superstructure the previous year, and was delayed again until June 2016.

Stolz said that Resolve is planning to start construction as soon as possible once the permits are issued.

“I think the target is end of December 2017 to occupy,” he said. “Once they get a permit for the super structure, then we will issue full permit for the remainder of the hotel and then they are on their way.”

Representatives from ReSolve Group Inc., were not immediately available for comment.

 





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