They've screwed themselves on this. There are no anchor tenants, maybe except RBC, who need a new office and could pay for this. They arent going to kick this off without at least a 40% lease ...

They originally requested that and it was supported by Crrssy but Tory shut it down at council because he was on a no lane closure kick. They have a full time cop on the corner managing pedestrians at a way higher cost than closing the lane.

Code wise, yes. Exposed mass timber wont work cost wise.

I saw Icon and thought they were interesting too. As an aside, I did do a conceptual massing and the setbacks are killing my economics. I need all the density I can get to make mid-rise work, and the setbacks required by the midrise guidelines are both reducing density, and shooting my formwork...

@ProjectEnd @interchange42 @AlvinofDiaspar @Automation Gallery Any thoughts?

Hi - working on a project on the side. An 50-60 unit rental apartment downtown; 5 storeys, likely. Mid-end. My mental benchmark is the Mod'n in Burlington. Maybe some towns if economics permit. This isn't quite "missing middle" but there isn't a lot of experience in this realm and my experience...

I hear you. I agree. 1 year demo (12 months) 12 weeks for each below grade level (so 12 months) 4 weeks for each podium level (6 months) 3 weeks for each typical office level (42 months)

Construction timeline is at least 6 years ... must have misspoken at the event. All of their other comms are 2029.

Welding gas tank exploded in the basement.

I am not really concerned about Union Park. You can argue the architecture is better or worse, but it has way clearer public benefit: park is 3x and at-grade, retail is like 5x and isn't just a food hall, there is a massive PATH connection, there is a pretty big daycare, there is a bunch of...

I can see that more though. CIBC is just a big set of towers. The retail isn't existant and the park is like 6 stories up.

I still think these renders are really dishonest. The elevators need shaft doors and the shafts need to be fire rated. You will never see through the shaft to the offices like is shown here. It will be a big, block wall with elevators in front of it. At $400 PSF for rated wall, it sure won't...

Concorde has been both a boone and a blight on Toronto. I see why we agreed to allow them carte blanche in 2006; I dont see why we continue to do so. It isn't that the architecture needs to be fantastic, it's that the quality can be dog vomit.

Right. It's a choice to have 10 smaller diagrids than one big one. It's nothing to do with the slab though.

It is a side core, steel frame with curtain wall on the north side of the shafts. The core is 25 cars wide. The east most elevators are the high rise core. It is an odd core: if you are in the high rise you can literally be a football field from your desk ... but I think the theory makes sense...

I'm not sure it would make any difference visually, honestly.

Why is the slab 10 units? Any idea?

I guess it makes sense - except not sure I understand what advantage it would create ... more likely, I guess, that proponents would lower themselves to the lowest denominator.

Ahh. That's weird but too bad

Hey - was anyone there on Saturday to see the presentations? Curious as to how they all went!