Hotel on Queen, which some had feared would go the way of
Inn on College (which was never built), is apparently on track and nearing completion.
"I expect it's going to be ready in three months," says Mike Niven, the boutique hotel's principal interior designer, whose firm, Mike Niven Interior Design Inc., also worked on the Luna condominiums at CityPlace. The project architect
Radek Bronny of Forum Architect Co., confirms that his work is done and that there have been no recent changes to the design. "Right
now, the contractor is finishing the job. The shell is done, but the finishes
are a substantial part of it, so it will take some time," he said.
Located at 335 Queen Street West (on the site of late, lamented Chicago's), across from the corner of
Beverly and smack dab in the middle of the heart of old Queen Street West,
before its cultural centre moved Drake-wards, once open, Hotel on Queen will be
one of the only boutique hotels of its kind in the city: small, upscale, and right
in the middle of everything. Predecessors like Hotel Le Germain chose more discreet,
if no less central, locations on side streets. The Drake, and chief competitor The Gladstone, established themselves well out of the core, successfully betting that the action would follow.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Forum Architect Co., Mike Niven Interior Design Inc.