Oh, I see. In the CBC article , which interestingly also refers to it as a project by Stantec and Limak, in that order, the picture of the south wall still seems to look quite different to me than what is there now, beyond the modifications to the bottom windows. Perhaps those pictures haven't yet been updated to reflect the most current plans.
Yeah, they're using one of the old pictures. @archited posted one of the more up-to-date elevations. As told to us at the HRRP, including the south facade in the revisions was the only concession Limak would give to the City — they have no intention of trying to salvage anything else:
You often say follow the money ... in this case we don't know if there is any money.
... because Limak is such a large and reputable company the city was afraid they would move to ??? if the city wanted more concessions ... because this is on the only remaining lot in the area to develop??
Extracting as much as you possibly can from developers isn't a good way to entice new development or build affordable cities.
Perhaps behind the scenes that was the plan and without Katz having to life a finger...
It's an intriguing theory and actually makes a lot of sense to me. There is potential controversy and risk here at the initial stages that perhaps Katz did not want to get bogged down with.
