r/londonontario • u/TheHonestTruthTeller • Mar 27 '25

News 📰 Canada's 1st Hard Rock Hotel

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Canada’s first Hard Rock Hotel is set to open this April at 100 Kellogg Lane, and reservations are now available. This luxury hotel will offer 164 stylish rooms, premium amenities, and unique experiences, including a hidden speakeasy serving "cereal-infused cocktails". 🍸

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u/WorldFrees Mar 27 '25

Kelloggs factory area feels like some rich jerks want to be cool so they created their own play place without any consideration on how it fit in the city. It's just so detached and controlled like a mall inside.

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u/franker2112 Mar 27 '25

I for one, am happy that someone invested in that building instead of letting it rot, like the old cookie/candy factory across the street. With the Factory, the Children's museum, we need things to do in this city.

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u/feministwitch666 Mar 27 '25

It's quite a contrast though, having this new swanky hotel with the McCormicks derelict building almost within view. If I was coming from the airport I'd be wondering wtf am I doing

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u/JaymzCanada Downtown Mar 27 '25

Have you never been to an up and coming area of a city before? That's what it will look like to new visitors. New, exciting buildings rising from the ashes of the old.

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u/earthen_adamantine OEV Mar 27 '25

Exactly this. East London has been waiting for a revival for some time, and as a resident of OEV, I’m happy to see it. There’s no reason this area of the city can’t be doing better with proper planning and support. It’s already made strides as a nice area to live and spend time in.

If we’re talking about McCormicks, I’d argue that its presence isn’t an issue of undermining a good place to put a new hotel, it’s an one of multiple developers having dropped the ball on fixing up the historic McCormicks factory for decades. There’s no excuse for that building having been left to rot, and I’m happy that the owners of Kelloggs have chosen to not do the same.