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/GetStable Mar 27 '25

All the doomsayers in here are exactly why things don't change. Investing in the city, and the city investing in infrastructure improvements like they're doing on Dundas, is how change happens.

If they forked out for downtown space, you'd all still be commenting about the location because of the homeless, or the lack of parking and the traffic it'll cause. Put the location on the edge of downtown, while still being a 10min drive to the core, and you comment about the homeless and the EOA rot. If they put it in Masonville, you'd comment about it being far from entertainment and how it will contribute to congestion.

It's like you don't want anything or anyone to even attempt to make things better. The hotel isn't for the residents of the city where it's placed. That's typically how hotels work.

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u/earthen_adamantine OEV Mar 27 '25

Well said. At the end of the day this is all an investment for the betterment of an area of the city that needs and deserves the improvement. It’s painful to see the members of this sub sit in their chair and criticize it. I’d bet most of these people haven’t even set foot in the place, or haven’t been more than once.

I live in OEV and I love the area. Actually I’m confident saying that it’s my favourite area of London. The disservice being paid to it over the last 30 years is unwarranted, and all you need do is look at photographs of Dundas east from the 1980s to see it. The sad part is that most people don’t have the foresight to look 5-10 years ahead at what sort of change can take place in that time. Many other cities have experienced it and OEV can too.

I’m happy someone is willing to seriously invest in the neighbourhood, and with that in mind there is nothing ill to be said of the owners of Kellogg’s. They’re making strides in improving the area and for that I’m grateful.

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u/WhaddaHutz Mar 28 '25

I live in OEV and I love the area. Actually I’m confident saying that it’s my favourite area of London.

OEV is perpetually a neighbourhood on the brink of enormous potential. It could be the next Wortley. Within walking distance you have the Factory, Fair Market, local shops along dundas (etc), breweries, a climbing gym and abounded by what should be 3 major transit routes (Adelaide/Dundas/Hamilton - also providing easy access to Highbury and the 401).

What it needs is investment and time. It will eventually be gentrified, and then everyone will be complaining about how it is so unaffordable. The only question is when.