City council Wednesday approved the connection of the Grant House on Elgin Street, a heritage building, to a 21-storey office tower that is currently under construction.
A glass winter garden will connect the heritage building to the new development. The winter garden space will be accessible to the public and will be used as an indoor patio by the Grant House restaurant. The Canada Council for the Arts, one of the development’s major tenants, will share the space and use it as an exhibition area.
The building will also see some restoration work. Somerset Coun. Diane Holmes supported the plan and developer Morguard Corporation’s work.
“They’re restoring the building to its former state,” she said in an interview. “So it’s very good news.”