By Pepper Parr

February 11, 2014

BURLINGTON, ON.

It’s going to be tough to have the Delta Hotel that will grace Lakeshore road at the bottom of Elizabeth in time for the Pan Am Games – construction appeared to start earlier this week.

People out on the property with drills and cement trucks – sure sign of somebody doing something to the ground.

The Games are scheduled to run from July 10-26 with soccer being played in Hamilton and the multi million dollar New City Park serving as the practice field for the competing teams.

Burlington’s newest and its biggest park has basically been rented out to the Pan Am Games people – all we will see of the teams is the bus bringing them to the city passing by.

The four star Delta Hotel was touted as an upper end hotel which the city wanted in place for the Games. Those who know construction tell us that it basically isn’t possible to get the building up and ready for occupancy in the time left.

“The big thing for us” said a usually reliable source “was to have the hotel in the city and operational.”

While there are construction workers on the property they appear to be on the side where the Bridgewater condominium will get built.

We will keep an eye on this for you.