This is a dumb post as consulting the public isn't taking away the project from professionals. Ideas get floated putting pressure on developers to make improvements that they may have considered before but rejected for the bottom line. Developers are beholden to deliver a profitable return on...

These plans already include 300,000 square feet of hotel space which is a big hotel. There's 1.4 million square feet of office space. I don't know if they can sell some of the office space as office units . Transforming most if not all the office density to residential means some very tall...

Tear down the modernist Toronto Star Building. Rebuild the King West Toronto Star Building. Open it as a newspaper/media museum with Henry Cavill Superman as host. Does anyone build larger hotels anymore? I guess if you include multiple brands in the same building.

Some estimates have the NBA expansion fee at around $5 billion so $500 million is less than it seems.

It may be prime space. It is not a prime location. The market here has never been for traditional corporate tenants and they seem to be weathering the virtual storm better than creative incubators from what I've read. Canterra is probably already seeking alternatives as they can't have this sit...

I don't like colonades either. I like that the original design doesn't have a podium. Podiums to me are reminders of master planned development without character and spaces for urban exploration. This isn't one of those podiums. The architectural design that has minimal connection with the...

This is an installation problem. The installers didn't have the experience or the time to do it right. It's screwed too tight not allowing for expansion at the seams The white column breaks up the massing. I still would have preferred two separate mid rises or to save on elevators and emergency...

The elevator core is behind the cherrypicker parked inside the structure. On either side are the fire stairs. The car lift is surrounded by the wooden fence.

I miss those days when I was in the know. Usually kept it to myself. Every now and then I posted something offering nothing when I needed an ego boost like when the love of my life from the Brass Rail left me after my credit card was declined. One day Manulife will build that supertall as...

The sub basement parking stackers are reached via a car elevator.

Yeah, this looks like a land flip. Get investors together to buy the property; get it shovel ready and, sell it. It's currently "Pre-proposed" LOL

in a fire rated drywall composite box "shaftwall" than a load bearing concrete core.

Ah. I've actually seen this drawing before

You're saying these won't be upzoned to something, unfortunately, similar to what has been proposed across the street? I don't see the appeal of the tall towers with minimal spacing across the street versus the plan here. I lived in my shared of tall towers with the advantage of wide suite...

I've been recently asked for a tip and a donation to the corporation's chosen charity. One is to pay employees less. The other is to pay less income taxes.