Delta Hotel in Thunder Bay is on schedule, Re Solve Group says
The hotel does not hinge on Thunder Bay event centre, official says
The head of the company building the hotel and condos at Thunder Bay's waterfront says the hotel is going ahead — regardless of what may happen with the proposed event centre.
Re Solve Group president Gisele MacDonald said she's heard lots of rumours in the community about the waterfront development over the past five years, but she denies there is any connection between the hotel development and the arena and convention centre project.
“We have started, we have made that commitment, with or without the event centre,” she said.
“Neither one of them are tied together. We are building this, whether there is an event centre or anything else that may be put into Thunder Bay.”
MacDonald said her company has already poured about $3 million into the hotel project alone.
“The five years that I've been involved in Thunder Bay, there [are] rumours quicker and faster than I could ever imagine,” she said. “But we have always stayed true to what we've done and we've always provided what exactly what we said we would.”
$60 million in financing is in place, she added, and work continues to move forward.
Thunder Bay city manager Tim Commisso said the city is working closely with the Re Solve Group, and he understands the hotel is currently in the detailed design stage.
Re Solve Group is working with the architects and Delta Hotels to design the above-ground part of the hotel. MacDonald said she expects above-ground construction to begin late-summer or early fall of this year.
The development of two condominium towers and the hotel is on schedule and "each individual project has been started, and we are ... full steam ahead," she said.