[Redroom Studios]

UD - interesting detective work... more conspiracy evidence?

 

[Tewder]

What an eyesore. This mess can't come down quick enough now.

Looking at those pictures above your comments are appropriate for the roads as well....Yonge and Bloor and just look at the shape of them!

 

[urbandreamer]

A bit old, but still interesting. Like they say, there's truth in rumours....

http://lotu2.blogspot.com/2008/01/rumours-from-condoland.html

However, it appears that bazi's parent is hiring:
http://www.bazis.kz/index.php?lang=2
http://www.bazis.kz/index.php?id=365&lang=2
http://www.bazis.kz/index.php?id=677&lang=2

Is Veronika Belovich the daughter of Alexander Belovich, Bazis-a's founder?

 

[p5connex]

Tewder- good point! The roads are in seriously bad shape. Does the lack of repair or resurfacing have anything to do with the Bloor Street project? If so, it would make sense that they would rather leave it until the reconstruction project..

 

[jmacmillan]

"The proposal provides a total of 596 parking spaces (192 for commercial use and 404 for residential use) in a five-level underground garage..."

re: Cystal Blu/Uptown: "Developing this property means excavating the entire site to a depth of six stories..."

 

[caltrane74]

Yonge and Bloor Changes Forever as Bazis Starts Work on 1 Bloor

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - May 22, 2008) -

ATTENTION: Real Estate, News, Retail, Business, Photo and Assignment Editors

Mark 2 p.m. on May 29, 2008, on your calendars. That is the day and time the face of Toronto changes forever.

It is when Bazis International starts demolition on the existing buildings on the southeast corner of Yonge and Bloor Streets to make way for its new 1 Bloor condominium tower, five-star hotel and shopping development.

Bazis' partners Michael Gold and Roy Varacalli as well as Toronto councilor Kyle Rae will mount a tracked excavator with a huge set of steel teeth and take a bite out of the existing building on the southeast corner of Bloor and Yonge Streets.

Involved is almost an entire city block from Bloor south to Hayden and east to the existing office tower on Bloor East.

To celebrate a significant moment in the city's history, Bazis is erecting a huge plasma screen 10 feet tall by 6 feet wide by the corner. It will show a video retrospective of the past 100 years at Yonge and Bloor.

As the black and white photos, gathered from archived collections, dissolve one into the other, a century of Toronto's busiest street corner will unfold. Horse drawn trolley cars will give way to Model T Fords. The corner was the site of the city's first traffic light.

Now it will become the home to the tallest residential structure in Canada.

"It will be a celebration of the spirit of Toronto," says Mr. Gold. "The past as prelude to the future."


WHEN: May 29 at 2 p.m.
WHERE: Southeast corner of Yonge and Bloor Streets
WHAT: Start of demolition to make way for 1 Bloor


from www.marketwire.com

 

[allabootmatt]

Man oh man is Kyle Rae gonna be embarassed if he goes all out for another project that sits fallow behind hoarding for years.

So let's hope it doesn't, for that reason and many others.

 

[Kahlua17]

Very interesting. I will definitely have to stop by to take a look.

 

[yyzer]

great news!

 

[grey]

To celebrate a significant moment in the city's history, Bazis is erecting a huge plasma screen 10 feet tall by 6 feet wide by the corner. It will show a video retrospective of the past 100 years at Yonge and Bloor.

That sounds great! Nice one, Bazis!

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

To celebrate a significant moment in the city's history, Bazis is erecting a huge plasma screen 10 feet tall by 6 feet wide by the corner. It will show a video retrospective of the past 100 years at Yonge and Bloor.

As the black and white photos, gathered from archived collections, dissolve one into the other, a century of Toronto's busiest street corner will unfold. Horse drawn trolley cars will give way to Model T Fords. The corner was the site of the city's first traffic light.

is the screen going to be a permanent feature of this corner?

 

[Kahlua17]

is the screen going to be a permanent feature of this corner?

Good question !! It would certanly be something different that this corner hasn't had before.

 

[3Dementia]

This sucker is being built so all you chicken littles might as well suck it up and shut up.

Nonetheless, I look forward to the next press release issued the day after:


TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - May 30, 2008) -

ATTENTION: Real Estate, News, Retail, Business, Photo and Assignment Editors, Insurance Companies, Gay Pride Organizing Committee

Mark 2 p.m. on May 29, 2008, on your calendars. That is the day and time that Kyle Rae slipped and belly-flopped at the corner of Yonge and Bloor, suffering enough brain trauma that his political future is now in limbo.

In the spirit of all great, staged photo-ops, Bazis' partners Michael Gold and Roy Varacalli, along with councilor Rae, climbed aboard a tracked excavator with a huge set of steel teeth that was planned to take a bite out of the existing building on the site. Unfortunately, Mr. Rae lost his footing and landed face first on the poorly-maintained sidewalk along the western perimeter of the site. After being flown by helicopter a few blocks south to St. Michael's hospital, Mr. Rae was treated for superficial cuts and bruises and released.

"The past as prelude to the future." says Mr. Gold. Kyle will have an MRI later this month and if there's any permanent brain damage detected, we'll be happy to work with his replacement.

-30-

 

[grey]

Hahahahaha

 

[whatever]

I wish the city would pledge to not grant permits for a temporary parking lot on that site. It would pain me to see a repeat of the Uptown experience