[Hilman]

Jessica Kent said the Greyhound condo would tower be 40+ floors on her Stantec Tower piece today and Vinesh Pratap said it would be 47 floors on his.

 

[archited]

@Hilman, if you count the floors on the latest renderings, you get to 44, including mechanical floors. The first four floors -- the podium floors -- do have exaggerated heights (so-called soft storeys). At any rate a far cry from the original plan that showcased 58 floors. Nonetheless, height is far less important than design -- the latest design has the concept looking very institutional -- too bad!

 

[archited]

Pile driver in place at southern property line of Tower B -- I'm going to call it Mandel Manor in honor of the former Mayor's tireless efforts to bring this entire project to fruition.

 

[Daveography]

Two shoring rigs on site

 

[Daveography]

IMG_20160810_205336 by Cristian Petrutiu, on Flickr

 

[Das Ponto]

So much going on. I love it.

Adding to the bet of Stantec and Marriott - where do we think Tower B will end up by Christmas? Full excavation complete?

 

[archited]

@Das Ponto -- by Christmas -- my vote is no. I project that they will still be hauling dirt by then.

 

[chrisvazquez7]

Yeah, it'll take a while to excavate the whole site. Maybe March or April next year?

 

[Daveography]

PERMIT_DATE August 22, 2016
PERMIT_NUMBER 162139487-037
JOB_CATEGORY Commercial Excavation
ADDRESS 10324 - 103 STREET NW
NEIGHBOURHOOD DOWNTOWN
JOB_DESCRIPTION To construct EXCAVATION ONLY to depth of 2.5m for an underground parkade PHASE 2 (ICE District)
BUILDING_TYPE Engineering (490)
WORK_TYPE (04) Foundation
ZONING AED, HA

 

[crisp]

2.5M depth... this is going to be only one level of underground?

 

[Daveography]

@crisp I'm wondering the same, that seems really shallow.

 

[archited]

Apparently, and in that case they will be beyond excavation by Christmas. Something doesn't fit here because the steel shoring pieces that are on site certainly suggest a deeper excavation; and I can't imagine Katz missing the opportunity for adjacent parking revenue. I guess we'll see.

 

[crisp]

Maybe this is just for half the site, the south half that will not have a tower on top. I cannot see how this would make sense for tower parking.

 

[Daveography]

@crisp Actually now that you mention it, this might be for the north part of the site, where it abuts the winter garden; the plaza parkade doesn't extend under that.

 

[Daveography]

Aug 26 - making short work of shoring