In my unscientific opinion, this needs more square footage. There's some room to expand the back a bit and still have some separation from 707 and build up 3 to 5 floors on the back half.

More spandrel than windows on the ground floor! Did a blood bank for vampires lease all the retail?

Dead trees aren't typically excluded from permitting. It's another tax revenue source. If it discourages someone from removing a healthy tree than that's a good thing. It's been a bad decade for urban tree canopies with changing climates and it can't all be on public property. Most major...

Planting Ash is risky as the climate changes.

I'm not getting a clear picture even with all the renderings. Looks like a gated community. The plus side, an LRT station gives people an alternative to driving to the core. I hate that transit (in Toronto) is being used as a high density community builder and to justify over developed...

Those walls are thin. Hopefully, the bedrooms aren't next to each other. Someone will be awakened by their neighbour farting in their sleep. This should keep housing affordable

A primary entrance is a main entrance with a lobby and elevators. CTBUH would not consider retail as a primary entrance. However, the primary residential entrance is just two doors to the left of this lowest door.. You have measured from the secondary podium office entrance.

Nice touch. I was expecting aluminium spandrel

Is symmetry that hard to do?

IExperts speculate the office market could take decades to recover. It's not in the best interest of Bentall/ GWLRA/ Quadreal on behalf of BCIMC to sit on these diminishing office values. Rental income doesn't justify construction. GWLRA building The Livmore Eau Claire on some of the surface...

I like that the original tower design came right down to the street over the new podium look. The original cladding was tired. I wonder how this will look in 20 years..Worse than the 60 year old original cladding? Surely something good could be said by a tower so ugly it turns us to stone...

The writedowns are not happening in the rental apartment market.

The owner has assets worth $230 billion. I don't think lending interest rates are that much of a concern.

The attempts to produced interest with different coloured facade panels and balcony widths seldom turns out better than if they just went with a bland functional design

The units sizes are consistent with what I see in other recently completed developments (designed 5 to 8 years ago) presuming the 1200 square foot 2 bedrooms at $5000 a month come in a limited quantity

Same here on rental condominiums. Makes no sense. Developers started it and the public latched on (similar to exposed structural concrete walls and ceilings being an upgrade)

These prices are consistent with the rest of the downtown and much of Toronto for new build rental condos. There are redevelopment opportunities to build more large scale rental around and adjacent to the Annex. Aren't there a bunch of tall buildings proposed around Walmer. Prehaps Spadina too...

Almost impossible to build more? In Toronto? The 5 towers and over 800 units headlining this thread is it?

A Massey museum with a brew pub in the basement some of the asphalt looks like it belongs to the 2000 era townhomes.

The rents seem on point with the market for never lived in with what I've seen. Some are actually lower than market and others appear higher. Included amenities matter in defining rentals perhaps more than some extra square footage. Toronto is just an expensive city. The rest of Canada isn't...