Landmark Place, High-rise building in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Landmark Place is a 43-storey, 130-metre tower at Main Street East and Catharine Street South in Hamilton's Corktown neighbourhood. Built by Al Frisina as a mixed commercial, residential and retail building, it was completed in 1974 and was first called the Century 21 building. Its top five floors now hold luxury suites.
Landmark Place was completed in 1974 as the Century 21 building, built by Al Frisina as a mixed-use commercial, residential and retail tower. In the early 1960s Frisina had already challenged Hamilton's six-storey height limit, hiring a consultant who argued the city could save on services by building up rather than out; he won and built the 18-storey Clarendon on Hunter near Bay, now The Fontainebleu. Original plans for a heliport and a revolving rooftop restaurant were scrapped.
The tower was built by Al Frisina as a mixed-use building combining commercial, residential and retail space, and its top five floors now hold luxury suites. Its original name, the Century 21 building, still identifies it for many Hamiltonians.
Landmark Place stands at the corner of Main Street East and Catharine Street South in the Corktown neighbourhood, south-east of Hamilton's downtown core. The building is mixed use, with commercial, residential and retail space, and the top five floors hold luxury suites, so upper-floor access is limited to residents and tenants.
Al Frisina, who built Landmark Place, originally planned a heliport and a revolving rooftop restaurant, but both were scrapped. He also argued that no taller building would follow in Hamilton, saying the demand was not there and nobody was crazy enough to do it. The top five floors now hold luxury suites.
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