Thought everyone here might appreciate a quick update on our progress.

1: Today our silo rehab team had a 75% drawing and technical specification review session. Just ironing out a few final details as we prepare to put this project out to tender. Still on schedule for a Summer 2021 mobilization. Most excited about opening a new and safe pedestrian connection at grade between the north and south silos.

2: Next week our plaza team will host our inaugural stakeholder advisory committee meeting, where committee members will hear a kick-off presentation from PFS Studio on the great thinking and analysis they have underway. The committee is made up of three ‘partner groups’ that include waterfront resident representation, BQNP project partners, and activation partners (the latter of which are groups like Nuit Blanche that have expressed interest in programming/curating special events here once the plaza is complete). So a good range of representation and interests. We remain on track for a June 2021 virtual open house presentation for which I’ll post details here.

3: Lastly, the Canada Ireland Foundation has hired their construction management team and is gearing up to start some site servicing upgrades and interior demo in their building this Spring. Actual renos scheduled to start later this Summer, with their Phase 1 planned to open Fall 2022.

Cheers!
 
For those on this thread interested in the waterfront plaza being designed by PFS Studio:

Please hold Wednesday, June 16, 7-9pm for an on-line public meeting that will feature a presentation from PFS on their conceptual designs. Registration details available in another week or so. Will post those here once available.
 
Sharing some of the renders we released today of the waterfront plaza.
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The one thing I do wish is for the dark limestone paving (from Kilkenny?) at Ireland Park to extend a bit into the N/S pathway. All the way across to the Ireland Park Foundation/Corleck Building would be even nicer, but I can imagine it'd have accessibility issues.

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Great suggestion and in fact the ground plane and paving details at the western threshold to Ireland Park is something the team is discussing already and will be exploring further in detailed design.

FYI: We’ll have the June 16 public meeting slide deck and recorded presentation available on line as soon as possible. This usually takes a few days simply due to meeting AODA and IT requirements, and WebEx generally being a bit clunky.

As well, our upcoming June 23 WT Design Review Panel presentation will also be recorded and available on line. I believe it generally also takes WT about a week to get their meeting recordings up on their YouTube page, but the presentation materials are often posted on their DRP page before that.
 
In unrelated news: this is the oldest surviving thread in the Buildings subforum and next month will be the 18th birthday of this thread.

Old UT history - the forum had moved through different software/services over the years - so the date show on here is no longer an accurate indicator of whether it is first if the threads are *really* old.

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Old UT history - the forum had moved through different software/services over the years - so the date show on here is no longer an accurate indicator of whether it is first or not if the threads are *really* old.

AoD

Just out of curiosity.. what is the oldest UT thread?
 

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