[Auraz]

Although I won’t comment on how far along this has progressed, the lower floors are already dry-walled and the hoarding is down. Maybe a phased occupancy?

Late March ‘27 occupancy for lower floors.

 

[interchange42]

Do we know if the crown will include a parapet to hide the mechanical box?

There's no parapet.

Back in Nov '24, they got an MVA approved to redo the top of the building. Originally the top three floors were all going to be multi-storey penthouses, with the mechanical penthouse and elevator overrun all incorporated into a flat roof, but those big units did not sell, so Plaza redesigned the top three floors into more, smaller, traditional units, necessitating extending elevator service to the uppermost floor, and some expansion of other equipment above the roofline. The design was pretty much unchanged otherwise.

https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2025/0...g-higher-entertainment-district-skyline.58340

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[Ramako]

There's no parapet.

Back in Nov '24, they got an MVA approved to redo the top of the building. Originally the top three floors were all going to be multi-storey penthouses, with the mechanical penthouse and elevator overrun all incorporated into a flat roof, but those big units did not sell, so Plaza redesigned the top three floors into more, smaller, traditional units, necessitating extending elevator service to the uppermost floor, and some expansion of other equipment above the roofline. The design was pretty much unchanged otherwise.

https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2025/0...g-higher-entertainment-district-skyline.58340

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What a shame. Nothing ruins a design for me more than a big clunky mechanical box that looks tacked on to the top of a tower. Makes the whole thing look ramshackle. I can't imagine it's much of a challenge in terms of architecture or cost to obscure them with a parapet.

 

[AlbertC]

 

[Johnny Au]

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