Lakeview Square is a full-block mixed-use downtown development in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It opened in 1974 and was developed by Lakeview Properties, Ltd.
History
of Lakeview Development Ltd. announced in October 1969 that his company would invest C$20 million in an apartment complex, as soon as Metro's Downtown Development Plan was passed into law. The complex consists of:
Delta Hotel - originally a Holiday Inn and later a Crowne Plaza, is an 18-storey, 410-room hotel, with both indoor and outdoor swimming pools. It is located on the St. Mary Ave. side of the complex. Since its opening in January 1974, it has been the largest hotel in Winnipeg. The hotel has a full convention operation and a first-floor English pub, the Elephant & Castle. Originally the hotel had a discothèque, Uncle's, but this has since been replaced with a conference center.
Holiday Towers - twin 27-storey apartment buildings fronting onto Hargrave St., containing approximately 500 apartments, whose residents have access not only to the apartments' own rooftop pool and running track but also to the pool and exercise facilities of the Delta Hotel.
One Lakeview Square, 155 Carlton Street, on the corner of York, a 19-storey office building, designed by Libling Michener & Associates. On the first floor is a restaurant, originally the Garden Creperie, now the East India Pub & Brewing Company.
175-185 Carlton Street, a connected low-rise structure with offices and first-floor retail, including a tobacco shop which has been present since the opening. In the basement of 185 Carlton is Ichi Ban Restaurant, a, 170-seat, bi-level teppanyakisteak house, which has been in the complex since its 1974 opening. The restaurant was designed by Nat Hart, who was previously an executive maitre d'hotel of Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. In its first quarter of operation, the Ichi Ban served comedian Jack Benny. The basement of 175 Carlton once contained an Italian restaurant with singing waiters, The Grand Canal of Venice, but this soon closed. The basement walkway still resembles a Venetian canal.
A Japanese Hayashi garden, a private park fronting onto Carlton Street and also accessible from Hargrave Street and York Avenue, partially commemorates Winnipeg's sister-city relationship with Setagaya, Japan. The park was established not only to provide a unifying centre for the complex but also to replace a city park that was displaced by construction of Lakeview Square.
The hotel, which faces St. Mary's Cathedral, was once the site of St. Mary's School, which closed in 1968 and burned in 1969. The buildings of the complex are connected via various walkways and also through a common underground parking garage. Lakeview Square is connected to the Winnipeg Convention Centre by two skyways, one connecting to the Delta and the other connecting to One Lakeview Square. In 2010, Lakeview Square was newly connected to the main Winnipeg Walkway system with the completion of a skyway from 330 St. Mary Ave. to the Delta Hotel, utilizing a unique block-long exterior skyway running along the outside of the Delta on the St. Mary Ave. side. The skyway connects to the original skyway to the Convention Centre and a 2-storey glass tower at the corner of Carlton St. & St. Mary Ave.
