There has been much activity on this site for some weeks now. It is a mini-forest of cranes, backhoes, drilling devices, etc. Excavation has begun on the Yonge Street side.

Walked along College today towards Yonge; caught a glilmpse of Burano in the distance. Even at this stage it stands out from two blocks away.

As of Wednesday they were taking down the lofting crane, as you can see from the picture below. This was the crane that was used to lift materials over the hydro wires into the site for the last several months. Three of the four float trucks that were required to take the components away are...

All trees taken down over the past weekend; the small house on the property should be next--depending the delaying effects of the upcoming storm.

I was thinking that Grosvenor Street is overwhelmed with construction now, Burano and Women's College redevelopment. It is such a short street for all of that work.

In the Hullmark Centre thread, Sunnyraytoronto posted the following about the emergency entrance that is located on that parcel: I don't know if this helps or just adds to the speculation; see the Hullmark Centre thread for more details. [BTW--Sunnyray refers to the south-east corner of...

A long time since any reporting on Bridgepoint--all said that needs to be? There was a lot of heat about not saving the curved building too; reported at the beginning of this thread. Having visited a patient in that building, the large curved windows gave nice views and made the room seem...

It is normal when you only have three or four people doing the work with one chainsaw. A full size tree can take a full day to take down with three men. Today they brought in a chipper and ground up the ones that were taken down yesterday. There still are three or four large trees and quite...

A different view from this p.m.

New activity this afternoon; there was a contractor beginning to take down the trees; three or four were down by the end of the day. Two pictures below.

In particular the ground view angle shot above--it appears to be impossible that these towers could really be there...

It will be interesting to see if the tower is completed before the townhouses, which is usually the case in these combo-type developments. Right now the townhouses on the west end of the site and the tower are at about the same stage.

It's still hurry up and wait--for most of the last week or so there has been a pickup truck and maybe an SUV pulled up to the trailer. It appears that they are fitting it out, but they have not been clearing the snow from the lot, so do not expect any major activity yet. Perhaps, as...

Thanks for the shots Solaris; good view of the Minto Spring condo in the second picture.

Savvy is now up to ground level for the area of the underground parking and the north side townhouses. (see site plan on Menkes website, www.menkes.com/savvy/index.php?o=siteplan) Interesting, with the crane on the north side of the site, to bring concrete, other materials onsite they need...

Perhaps the universal default spellcheck of Microsoft in the proofing--using American English instead of British?

There was a contractor onsite Thursday, clearing snow from the lot. On Friday they moved a mobile construction trailer onto the site from the Poyntz Avenue southwest entrance (with some difficultly). It has now been located on the north side of the site. It appears that indeed work will...

Yes Ed007 that should indeed mean more business for that outlet in the future. Also, an update to yesterday; I noted today that there is in fact a redevelopment sign on the 5959 property and it has already been tagged by someone although I could not make out what the tag might be. The...

No comments on this project for some time; there is a large wall of brown hoarding surrounding the site and all of the old buildings and former garage gas station uses seem to have been removed. There is a two or three storey structure that appears to be a new sales office that was started in...

North York Chrysler Jeep Dodge moved out of this location in 2010 and relocated north of Steeles Avenue to the auto dealer locations on the west side of Yonge. No redevelopment sign on the 5959 Yonge Street location as yet, but I seem to remember some sort of advertising for lease or sale of...