New Hotel Condo Complex Planned for Regina in the Midst of a Building Boom | Capital Pointe

Development Name:	Capital Pointe
Development Address :	Albert and Victoria
Development Type :	Highrise - Tower - Skyscraper
Number of Floors:	19 Floors
Year Built	Proposed
Building Type	Residential and Hotel
Developer:	Westgate Developments
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Rendering : If Available
Location:	Regina Saskatchewan
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Public documents filed with the City of Regina outline an out-of-province developer's intentions to demolish the existing hotel to make room for an eight-storey hotel and a 19-storey condominium tower complex. The development is the first to be conceived with consideration to the city's proposed new downtown neighbourhood plan.

 Westgate Plaza would feature retail and patio space at street level, "green" roofs and a double row of trees along both Albert Street and Victoria Avenue. In a nod to heritage, the Plains Hotel weather tower would be incorporated. "It's going to be very different," said Mayor Pat Fiacco on Tuesday. "It's important to note that the developer liked the fact that Regina has a downtown neighbourhood plan. I think that speaks volumes. This is the very first one coming forward and I expect we're going to see more development. It's very exciting."

 The downtown neighbourhood plan, revealed to the public in May, will go before council on Sept. 25 for endorsement, Fiacco said. Fred Searle, senior planner in the city's planning and sustainability department, noted that the Westgate Plaza proposal addresses numerous aspects of the downtown plan. The streetscapes surrounding the new development would be revised and the condominium presence would bring people to live in the area, one key plan point. The development is subject to a discretionary-use application because of floor-area ratio and height restrictions. The proposal will require city council's stamp of approval, following a technical and public review process and reports to the city's planning commission and council itself. The project might go before council as early as September, Searle said.