What do you think of this project?

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Offworld said:
I miss Vista 33. As a kid, I went up there every few weeks, a budding real estate geek watching all the downtown construction underway.
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I remember it too and it was a popular downtown attraction for many years, so yes people do want to go to places like this, even if our skyline was and is more modest than some other places.

Some more frequent travelers here may not appreciate or realize not everyone here get to go to places like New York to see more impressive skylines. I hope if the Aldritt Tower is ever built it will have a public space to take what would be a great view from there.

In the meantime, I guess we still have LaRonde which is nice, but was built in the 1960's and is now far from the tallest building here.
 
The view from on high.
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SarcasticMarmot said:
Vista 33 was great as a kid getting to see the city and telephone museum. But alas, I am sure it is much more useful to the 5 people with offices up there now. Perfect example of the loss of focus on the public good when crown corps go private.
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Yes. And back to my original comment about the CN Tower - which was built when it was a crown corp. Fortunately, that space was not easily convertible to corporate offices or condos.
 
Stantec Tower was evacuated due to a water main break on the 28th floor. I don't think this affects Sky Residences.
 
dkazzed said:
Stantec Tower was evacuated due to a water main break on the 28th floor. I don't think this affects Sky Residences.
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Actually it does. The damaged sprinkler line affects all residential, freight, and commercial elevators.

Elevator operations will remain out of service for at least 24 hours.

SKY Residents who cannot or do not wish to use the stairs are advised to find alternate accommodations, such as nearby hotels or staying with family/friends.

Residents may submit reasonable expenses for reimbursement due to alternate accommodation needs, within the following daily limits:
  • Total: $350 per day
    • Hotel/accommodations: $250
    • Food: $60
    • Transportation (if needed): $20
    • Incidentals/necessities: $20

Update: one commercial elevator is now available, so residents can take that elevator to level 28, and walk up the rest of the way.
 
I was wondering if we should not be taking the elevators to evacuate but the instructions didn't say we couldn't. We were on the lower half so there didn't seem to be water going down the elevator shaft, but there was some water in the washrooms and stairwells.
 
IanO said:
Terrible logic/incident relationship.

I don't disagree, but water incidents can happen anywhere, anytime and SUCK.
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It's not completely unrelated. My brother lived in the Tour des Canadiens in Montreal for a year. They had a catastrophic failure of their elevator system. For 3 days he had to walk up 36 flights of stairs to his place. Then for another week only one elevator worked for 50 floors and it was manually operated by a staff, you had to call the concierge desk and wait for them to come get you which could take half an hour or more. Happened to coincide with my visit, glad we are both in decent shape. I sent him Edmonton's post with a "Sound Familiar?".

Yes, incidents can happen anywhere. But the consequences are way worse in a supertall. If the elevator went out in our 4 story I wouldn't even blink.
 
It sounds like the valve that blew was on the mechanical floor. And Ogilvie LLP office was quite nice and will take quite some time to remediate I fear.
 
This isn't going to be a small insurance claim.

They are doing their assessments today and looking at reopening unaffected floors as early as tomorrow.
 
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