Victoria Park Place is

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's second tallest building (after Caesars Windsor's "Augustus" Hotel tower), standing at 34

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s (3 below-ground floors, and 31 above-ground floors). Its construction started in 1979 and was a jointly built venture by Danzig Enterprises Limited & Wonsch Construction. The building uses reinforced concrete construction and concrete plank. The apartment tower is easily identifiable from its "L" shape. It stands at the corner of Park Street and Victoria Avenue in downtown Windsor, on a site formerly occupied by the old Norton Palmer Hotel. The high-rise

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takes up a full city block, and is across Pelissier Street from the Royal Windsor Terrace Condominiums. The high-rise uses the

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style, incorporating a great deal of

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and

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. Along its southwest corner (the edge of its "L" shape),

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s travel along the shafts, with a clear view of the streets below. At one time, it housed a news bureau for

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on its ground floor, which has since been turned into a

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. The building also holds the television transmitter for CHWI-TV-60 on the roof, repeating the signal to the Windsor area.

External links

Google Maps location of Victoria Park Place

Victoria Park Place Essex Condominium Plan #35 Information

Victoria Park Place Listed Condos for Sale by Owners

Victoria Park Place at Emporis.com

SkyscraperPage.com's Profile on Victoria Park Place
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