It's getting very close.

Food halls are essentially an evolution of the food court... but with a more distinct food offering and better customer experience. If the city can support hundreds of cut-and-paste food courts, I'm sure a half dozen food halls can eek out a healthy existence too.

If anyone remembers the Middle Eastern restaurant Plancha, that was formerly at Adelaide & Victoria, they've just re-opened in Table Food Hall at CIBC Square. Salad Days will be opening another location in the food hall soon as well.

This food hall is essentially just an Oliver & Bonacini, but with more steps.

Just to clarify this, Beatrice and Boxcar are the same group. They're essentially just changing up the operation in the space, but it's not a new tenant. It's not just a matter of branding. You're not going to see McDonalds, Tim Hortons and Subway at Waterworks. You also can't typically get...

There's only 4 vendors open for now. Should be about a dozen when they're all open.

Food hall opened today.

OK I need to take my daughter to that wall of Pokémon plushies.

Looking more closely at the rendering, I think the facade is going to have more of a 3 dimensional texture than at first glance, like that Maple House tower at Canary Landing.

I'm getting a B-class 80s office tower vibe from this one.

This will be no ordinary office tower food court - but yes, it will be the only food option in this tower.

It's only striking me now, from seeing that rendering, that this will de facto become the defining skyscraper in Toronto's skyline. In my mind it was still going to be FCP, but One Yonge is going to stand out by such a huge degree.

Leasing is already well underway.

Things are in motion behind the scenes.

That space is closer to 10,000 sq. ft. Retail tenant TBD.

But doesn't a building, whether or not it's residential, still impact their overall reputation?

Looks like one of those "high tech" commercial/industrial buildings from SimCity.

Close, but not quite: https://www.nbarestaurant.com/ Here's the press release:

Dineen on the park level is now open.