I scoped out the mall layout and couldn't help but realize that it feels like the Eaton Centre keeps The Bay and Saks separate from the mall even though they own the building and The Bay are tenants like all the others. People just kind of turn around and go back into the mall. If The Bay...

I think there's a better chance of the air rights being sold off in the coming decades like New York's Grand Central. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/grand-central-air-rights/

Just walked through the Queen St store. Everyone looks like they're at a funeral. One lady I spoke with who looked like a manager as she was directing other staff was very candid and said they're all preparing to lose their jobs but that there is some optimism from the store manager that they...

The city really cheaped out Union Station's shed. Looks like a bikini that barely covers the bits and you're telling me its going to get worse? This shed could've been such a landmark and instead they built a generic glass box that covers a tiny bit of the platforms. What's the point? I'm...

Going down the list of thousands of businesses the Bay owes money to, I wasn't surprised to find a bunch of elevator companies. One in Vancouver is owed over $330,000 and one near Toronto is owed $220,000. Then there's SCHINDLER ELEVATOR CORPORATION that is owed $3,550,849. Mystery of The Bay's...

I just went down a rabbit hole on the monitor's site. Besides the 10,000 lost jobs, there's the $1 billion of debt. Less than half, $400M are banks and other secured creditors. The unsecured creditors list is 25 pages long and over $500M. Many of those businesses aren't getting paid. Jesus this...

Zero? Maybe not zero. We're going to need striped Hudson's Bay Canada mittens when we storm The White House.

I asked chatGPT and got this: • Total Assets: $3.7 billion. • Total Liabilities: $3.2 billion Ouch. But hey, they have $500 million to spare. Theoretically could they liquidate most of their assets and still have $500M leftover to launch a reinvented Hudson's Bay? The brand itself has...

Point taken. Is the Bay looking for a billion to restructure? If so, I understand why there aren't any takers but I got the impression that they need temporary relief to keep some stores open, lean their business and begin paying off their debts. Don't they have billions in assets? Wasn't The...

10,000 jobs is nothing to sneeze at. Have there been any precedents of the government intervening in situations like this one? A lot of lifers on staff at The Bay that won't easily find work. The Bay is blaming their inability to secure investment on the US/Canada political situation. I'm not...

Will this bridge have a connection to the bus terminal? I saw the bridge door from Union is under construction and is on the same level as the Great Hall but will commuters be able to cross the bridge to go to their bus? Getting to the bridge from Scotiabank Arena is too confusing. I hope this...

Thank you... I guess but am I the only one who doesn’t understand your maps? 🫣

That blank wall was supposed to be tiled with what looks like stone. This whole project looks like textbook value engineering top to bottom.

Brunch maybe? I saw them this morning. They’re permanent. Built into the ground with the paving cut to fit. They kept the jersey barriers there for 7 years. They weren’t in any rush to move them out while building a permanent solution. These are the permanent solution. There is another...

You can see in these photos from @AHK The window positions alternate between window in a corner to wall in the corner. Where it’s a wall in the corner, it’s a new unit and at most, the neighbour can look at the window further up ahead but not through the window into the unit.

Wow, this is so much nicer than what got built. Was it a money thing? We totally got the downgraded version. The built tower looks like a tacked on Christmas tree, the original diagrids looked structural.

Funny, yes. But SpaFY needs an actual present MP. It's a big riding with complex needs. Would the Prime Minister being the MP give it a leg up? I'm not so sure. How has Papineau done? Any Liberal parachuted into downtown Toronto will take it if the Liberals are doing well. Carney should go for...