Victoria Park Place is
Windsor,
Ontario
's tallest building, standing at 34 storeys (3
below-ground floors, and 31 above-ground floors). Its
construction started in 1979 and was a jointly built venture by
Danzig Enterprises Limited & Wonsch Construction. The building
uses reinforced concrete construction and concrete plank. The
apartment tower is easily identifiable from its "L" shape. It
stands at the corner of Park Street and Victoria Avenue in downtown
Windsor, on a site formerly occupied by the old Norton Palmer
Hotel. The
high-rise apartment building takes up a full city
block, and is across Pelissier Street from the
Royal Windsor Terrace
Condominiums.
The
high-rise uses the
modern architecture style, incorporating
a great deal of
glass and
steel. Along its southwest corner (the edge of its "L"
shape),
elevators travel along the shafts,
with a clear view of the streets below.
At one
time, it even housed a news bureau for CKCO-TV
on its
ground floor, which has since been turned into a convenience store. The building also
holds the television transmitter for CHWI-TV-60
on the roof, repeating the signal to the Windsor
area.
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