Marriott Residence Inn (2015)

[jerry]

Bonne nouvelle! Pour y être resté une couple de fois dans les 2 ou 3 dernières années, l'hôtel avait vraiment besoin d'un rafraîchissement pour être à la hauteur du nom Residence Inn qui a la réputation d'avoir un excellent rapport qualité-prix.

[franktko]

Hôtel Marriott, rue Peel: disparition de la façade maudite

Publié le 21 novembre 2013 à 07h07 | Mis à jour à 07h07

 

ANDRÉ DUBUC

La Presse

 

 

L'hôtel Marriott Residence Inn de la rue Peel, à Montréal, est en train de retirer un à un les blocs de béton de sa façade dans le cadre de travaux majeurs de rénovation qui ont nécessité la fermeture temporaire de l'établissement depuis le 1er octobre.

 

Le 16 juillet 2009, un bloc de 320 kg s'est détaché du 18e étage de l'établissement pour aller s'écraser sur une cliente attablée avec son amoureux Hani Beitinjaneh sur la terrasse vitrée du Mikasa Sushi Bar, au rez-de-chaussée. Léa Guibeault, 33 ans, est morte sur le coup.

 

La disparition des blocs de béton n'est pas une exigence des autorités, assure la direction de l'hôtel. « Le propriétaire veut changer toutes les fenêtres pour donner un look plus moderne, explique Sonia Grenier, directrice, exploitation, du Marriott Residence Inn Montréal centre-ville. Il y aura dorénavant une grande fenêtre par chambre au lieu de quatre petites comme avant. »

 

Le coût des travaux s'élève à plus de 10 millions. En juillet 2002, l'établissement a été vendu pour 22 millions au Groupe Jesta, appartenant à Elliot Aintabi. L'établissement est toutefois géré directement par la chaîne Marriott.

 

« L'extérieur nouveau et moderne viendra rehausser l'esthétisme de l'ensemble de l'édifice », a écrit la direction de l'hôtel dans un communiqué annonçant les travaux.

 

Au terme de ceux-ci, l'hôtel comptera 2 étages de plus, lesquels ajouteront 20 chambres à l'établissement pour porter le total à 210 chambres. Les espaces communs seront aussi remis au goût du jour. L'hôtel, situé entre la rue Sherbrooke et le boulevard De Maisonneuve, rouvrira progressivement à partir de janvier prochain. Les travaux seront terminés en mai 2014.

 

http://affaires.lapresse.ca/economie/immobilier/201311/21/01-4712999-hotel-marriott-rue-peel-disparition-de-la-facade-maudite.php

[denpanosekai]

The Gazette: Léa Guilbeault’s death spurred building code changes

 

MONTREAL — More than four years after a Montreal woman was crushed by a slab of concrete that fell from the facade of a downtown hotel, construction workers have removed all the concrete panels from the Marriott Residence Inn as part of a multimillion-dollar hotel renovation.

 

As concrete slabs were lowered onto a flatbed truck on Peel St. last week, the memory of Léa Guilbeault’s death in 2009 still resonated with some downtown office workers.

 

“One of those pieces fell on that woman,” an officer worker reminded her friend as they walked past the crane that was removing the panels.

 

Guilbeault and her husband, Hani Beitinjaneh, were seated at a corner table in a restaurant patio when a large concrete slab fell 18 storeys off the facade of the hotel, crashing through the glass roof. Guilbeault, 33, was killed and her husband was seriously injured.

 

Guilbeault’s death became emblematic of Montreal’s crumbling infrastructure and led to calls for more stringent building maintenance guidelines that would require owners to have their facades inspected more often.

 

In March, Quebec’s Régie du bâtiment announced long-awaited changes to the province’s building safety code designed to prevent future fatalities from crumbling buildings and multi-leval garages.

 

The new rules require property owners to inspect their buildings and facades every five years.

 

Owners of buildings that are five storeys or higher will have to get an architect or an engineer to inspect their facades for things such as rust stains or cracks. Inspections will have to be completed between 2015 and 2018, depending on the age of the building. The changes will affect about 3,650 buildings in the province.

 

Owners of multi-level parking garages also must get the garages inspected once every five years. Inspections will have to be completed between 2014 and 2016, depending on the age of the building.

 

The new security measures for garages were brought in after a concrete slab fell on the roof of a car in a St-Laurent parking garage in 2008, killing Mahamat Saleh Khazali.

 

The changes follow the recommendations of Quebec coroner Jacques Ramsay, who criticized Quebec’s lax building maintenance rules in his 2010 report on Guilbeault’s death.

 

The previous rules said owners were responsible for maintaining their buildings, but didn’t spell out how that should be done.

 

Under the new law, copies of the inspections must be kept in a file on the property and be available for consultation by building inspectors, city officials, the fire department and engineers or architects who may want to consult previous inspections, said Sylvain Lamothe, a spokesperson for the Régie de bâtiment.

 

Building owners who repeatedly refuse to have their buildings inspected can be fined or taken to court, but Lamothe said that is a last resort.

 

“We are not there to strong arm them,” he said. “We are there to help make sure they respect the new law.”

 

The new rules are being enforced across the province by 44 inspectors, Lamothe said.

 

The Marriott Residence Inn, which is a tenant in the Peel St. building where Guilbeault was killed, announced in October it is undergoing a major renovation that includes replacing the facade.

 

Sonia Grenier, the hotel’s director of operations, said the decision to replace the facade had nothing to do with the accident that killed Guilbeault.

 

“We have new owners,” she said, adding she couldn’t answer any other questions.

 

Anyone who is worried about the safety of a building can call the Régie du bâtiment at 1-800-361-0761.

[Maxwell]

C'est cet immeuble si je me souviens bien qu'une dale de béton s'était détacher de la façade y'a quelque années.

[Memphis 22]

C'est une rénovation en règle

 

 

[SkahHigh]

27 février 2014

 

[franktko]

J'ai bien hâte de voir en personne, le recouvrement blanc prévu...

[Rocco]

Ce ne sera pas blanc, mais bien aluminium.

PS: les petites maisons à sa droite font dur en crime. Amenez les bulldozers svp.

[ERJ-Boy]

c'est drôle la forme des fenêtres me fait penser au Courtyard

[SkahHigh]

14 mars 2014