By Pepper Parr
July 8th, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
959025 Ontario Inc. will be holding an online pre-application community meeting on Tuesday, July 15, to inform residents and discuss concerns about a possible 22-storey mixed-use building at 2076 Old Lakeshore Rd.
The building is planned to include 154 hotel suites and 46 residential units, as well as extending the waterfront trail.
The proposed development will fit in with the other towers proposed for the football. The Old Lakeshore precinct will always be seen as the “the jewel” that has yet to find a crown.
The site is currently occupied by the Marquis Lakeside Inn and is located in an area with several developments in the works, including a 27-storey mixed-use building at 2083 Lakeshore Rd.
Residents interested in attending the virtual meeting, which will run from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, July 15, can tune in through Zoom.
The development of a hotel just west of Emmas Back Porch is the best developer Darko Vrancich has been able to do in getting a hotel property built along the waterfront.
The Ontario Land Tribunal said no to this development proposal – issue was parking and access from Pearle Street.
His application to put up the two-tower – 35-storey development at the foot of Brant Street got snagged on Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) technicalities.
The proposal to put up a 22 storey tower on the current motel site could run into some limits in just how close they can get to the lake edge of the property.
That Top of bank rules might limit what can be done on that land. It was a set of rules that got in the way of other development proposals.
