Tewder
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A tribute to Toronto's name? It looks more like a tribute to the major commercial activity of the antebellum South.
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StCatharinesCitizen
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I really dont like this. The balloon cloud idea is actually kind of cool, but it is so randomly placed and unorganized. I'd imagine that was the intent, but it doesnt sit well with me. The thing I dislike most about this is the extension of the silos with the same material. The idea of having a resturaunt or bar on the top is very cool, but leave out the 'coin stacks'.
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I guess this would be one less venue Toronto would have to worry about in bidding for the 2020 Olympics.
Infrastructure Ontario selects qualified bidders for Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games construction projects
Infrastructure Ontario identified this week three groups of companies who will be invited to bid on construction projects at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus for the Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games. The consortia include PCL Constructors Canada Inc., Bondfield Construction and Hunt Construction Group Inc.
The three groups will be invited this summer to bid on a request for proposals to design, build and finance the Pan American Aquatics Centre (PAAC), Field House and Canadian Sport Institute Ontario (CSIO) project. The pre-qualified bidders are:
• Aquatic Consortium of Toronto 2015, comprised of PCL Constructors Canada Inc., NORR Ltd., Counsilman–Hunsaker and TD Securities.
• Hunt-Urbacon LP, which includes Hunt Construction Group Inc., Urbacon Ltd.'s buildings group, WZMH Architects (formerly known as The Webb, Zerafa, Menkes, Housden Partnership), 360 Architecture and CIT Financial.
• United Toronto, which includes Laing O’Rourke, Bondfield Construction, ZAS Architects, Populous, RMJM Sport Rocklynn Capital Inc. and KPMG LLP.
Pan-Am Aquatics Centre
RECREATION BUILDING
Proj: 9115817-8
Scarborough, Metro Toronto Reg ON
CONTEMPLATED
Pan-Am Aquatics Centre (PAAC), Canadian Sport Institute, University of Toronto Scarborough Campus, Military Trail, M1C
$170,000,000 est
Note:
A Request For Qualifications (RFQ) from consortia to design, build, and finance the project was issued by the coordinator for this project late December 2010. The coordinator has prequalified three consortia; Aquatic Consortium of Toronto 2015, including: PICL Constructors Canada Inc, NORR Ltd, Counsilman-Hunsker, and TD Securities; Hunt-Urbacon LP, including: Hunt Construction Group & Urbacon Buildings Group, WSMH Architects & 360 Architecture, CIT Financial; and United Toronto, including: Laing O'Rourke & Bondfield Construction, ZAS Architects, Populous & RMJM Sport, and Rocklynn Capital Inc and KPMG LLP. Pre-Qualified teams will be invited to respond to a Request For Proposals (RFP) to be issued by the coordinator late summer 2011. Schedules for design, tender and construction will be finalized upon award. Further update fall 2011.
Project:
proposed construction of a 28,000 sq meter sports and recreation complex. The Pan-Am Aquatics centre features two 10-lane 50 metre pools and a dive tank and will have a Games-time seating capacity of 10,000. The project will also have multi-purpose gymnasiums, a running track, racquet courts, and fitness and training areas. The Canadian Sport Institute Ontario (CSIO) component will include a 14,000 sq M field house for fencing and volleyball with a Games-time seating capacity of 3,000. This will be a national high-performance centre that will provide sport science, sport medicine, coaching and training spaces for the University.
Scope:
28,000 m²
http://dcnonl.com/cgi-bin/top10.pl?...8ef8096dd615&projectid=9115817®ion=ontario
Infrastructure Ontario selects qualified bidders for Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games construction projects
Infrastructure Ontario identified this week three groups of companies who will be invited to bid on construction projects at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus for the Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games. The consortia include PCL Constructors Canada Inc., Bondfield Construction and Hunt Construction Group Inc.
The three groups will be invited this summer to bid on a request for proposals to design, build and finance the Pan American Aquatics Centre (PAAC), Field House and Canadian Sport Institute Ontario (CSIO) project. The pre-qualified bidders are:
• Aquatic Consortium of Toronto 2015, comprised of PCL Constructors Canada Inc., NORR Ltd., Counsilman–Hunsaker and TD Securities.
• Hunt-Urbacon LP, which includes Hunt Construction Group Inc., Urbacon Ltd.'s buildings group, WZMH Architects (formerly known as The Webb, Zerafa, Menkes, Housden Partnership), 360 Architecture and CIT Financial.
• United Toronto, which includes Laing O’Rourke, Bondfield Construction, ZAS Architects, Populous, RMJM Sport Rocklynn Capital Inc. and KPMG LLP.
Pan-Am Aquatics Centre
RECREATION BUILDING
Proj: 9115817-8
Scarborough, Metro Toronto Reg ON
CONTEMPLATED
Pan-Am Aquatics Centre (PAAC), Canadian Sport Institute, University of Toronto Scarborough Campus, Military Trail, M1C
$170,000,000 est
Note:
A Request For Qualifications (RFQ) from consortia to design, build, and finance the project was issued by the coordinator for this project late December 2010. The coordinator has prequalified three consortia; Aquatic Consortium of Toronto 2015, including: PICL Constructors Canada Inc, NORR Ltd, Counsilman-Hunsker, and TD Securities; Hunt-Urbacon LP, including: Hunt Construction Group & Urbacon Buildings Group, WSMH Architects & 360 Architecture, CIT Financial; and United Toronto, including: Laing O'Rourke & Bondfield Construction, ZAS Architects, Populous & RMJM Sport, and Rocklynn Capital Inc and KPMG LLP. Pre-Qualified teams will be invited to respond to a Request For Proposals (RFP) to be issued by the coordinator late summer 2011. Schedules for design, tender and construction will be finalized upon award. Further update fall 2011.
Project:
proposed construction of a 28,000 sq meter sports and recreation complex. The Pan-Am Aquatics centre features two 10-lane 50 metre pools and a dive tank and will have a Games-time seating capacity of 10,000. The project will also have multi-purpose gymnasiums, a running track, racquet courts, and fitness and training areas. The Canadian Sport Institute Ontario (CSIO) component will include a 14,000 sq M field house for fencing and volleyball with a Games-time seating capacity of 3,000. This will be a national high-performance centre that will provide sport science, sport medicine, coaching and training spaces for the University.
Scope:
28,000 m²
http://dcnonl.com/cgi-bin/top10.pl?...8ef8096dd615&projectid=9115817®ion=ontario
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current
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Right now the Aquatics Centre site at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus is being cleaned up because it was a former landfill site so construction can start.
Toronto Star's Randy Starkman's Olympics Blog:
"Best on Best" is Toronto Pan Am 2015 mantra
May 27, 2011
Pan Am 2015 head honcho Ian Troop acknowledges it's going to take a "paradigm shift" to deliver the kind of sporting competition they want in four years in Toronto.
Troop kept uttering the phrase "best on best" during a media conference call on Friday morning as if it were the 2015 Pan Am Games mantra. It probably is at this juncture. And it's a ambitious one, to be sure, considering that it's been generally regarded as a 'B' Games for a long time.
But Troop and his cohorts recently met with the poobahs of the United States Olympic Committee and the leaders of their sports federations and he says they came away feeling strongly about a possible buy-in from the Americans when it comes to supplying their best athletes.
Troops reasons for optimism included:
-- the attractiveness of a large market like Toronto
-- the ease involved because of time zones, similar culture and a safe environment (the 2011 Games are in Guadalajara, Mexico, where raging drug wars have prospective travellers worried)
-- the 2015 Games are a great opportunity for athletes headed to the 2016 Rio Olympics to get a multi-Games experience, not to mention the last one before Rio
-- it's virtually a home Games for the U.S., giving their fans a chance to come and cheer them on
None of that helped the last time the Pan Ams were held in Canada in Winnipeg in 1999. The organizers there tried to pump things up by paying Olympic sprint champion Donovan Bailey to show up, but he arrived disinterested and only ran the relay.
Toronto organizers definitely have their work cut out for them. Paradigm shifts aren't easily achieved.
Read More: http://thestar.blogs.com/olympics/
Toronto Star's Randy Starkman's Olympics Blog:
"Best on Best" is Toronto Pan Am 2015 mantra
May 27, 2011
Pan Am 2015 head honcho Ian Troop acknowledges it's going to take a "paradigm shift" to deliver the kind of sporting competition they want in four years in Toronto.
Troop kept uttering the phrase "best on best" during a media conference call on Friday morning as if it were the 2015 Pan Am Games mantra. It probably is at this juncture. And it's a ambitious one, to be sure, considering that it's been generally regarded as a 'B' Games for a long time.
But Troop and his cohorts recently met with the poobahs of the United States Olympic Committee and the leaders of their sports federations and he says they came away feeling strongly about a possible buy-in from the Americans when it comes to supplying their best athletes.
Troops reasons for optimism included:
-- the attractiveness of a large market like Toronto
-- the ease involved because of time zones, similar culture and a safe environment (the 2011 Games are in Guadalajara, Mexico, where raging drug wars have prospective travellers worried)
-- the 2015 Games are a great opportunity for athletes headed to the 2016 Rio Olympics to get a multi-Games experience, not to mention the last one before Rio
-- it's virtually a home Games for the U.S., giving their fans a chance to come and cheer them on
None of that helped the last time the Pan Ams were held in Canada in Winnipeg in 1999. The organizers there tried to pump things up by paying Olympic sprint champion Donovan Bailey to show up, but he arrived disinterested and only ran the relay.
Toronto organizers definitely have their work cut out for them. Paradigm shifts aren't easily achieved.
Read More: http://thestar.blogs.com/olympics/
DSC
Superstar
WT and Infrastructure Ontario recently announced the three Finalists for developing the Athletes Village ahave got their propodsals in. ("Infrastructure Ontario, in partnership with Waterfront Toronto, announced today that the request for proposals (RFP) stage for the Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games Athletes’ Village project has closed.") The three finalists are/were:
Three short-listed teams were invited to submit bids in response to a request for proposals (RFP) that was issued on January 28, 2011. The teams all include companies with proven experience and capabilities in financing, designing, developing and constructing large, complex projects. The three
short-listed teams are:
Dundee Kilmer Developments Limited
– Dundee Realty Corporation – Equity Investor, Developer
– Kilmer Van Nostrand Co. Limited – Equity Investor, Developer
– EllisDon Corporation – Design Builder, Constructor
– Ledcor Design Build (Ontario) Inc. – Design Builder, Constructor
– Brookfield Financial Corp. – Financial Advisor
– architectsAlliance – Joint Venture Architect
– Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg – Joint Venture Architect
– Daoust LeStage Inc. – Urban Design Architect
– TEN Arquitectos – Design
Legacy Village Partners
– Lend Lease – Master Development Partner, Equity Provider, Project Lead
– Concert Properties Ltd – Master Development Partner, Equity Provider, Market
Rental Developer/Owner
– Tridel – Development Partner, Equity Provider of Market Condo Component
– PCL – General Contractor
– Deltera – General Contractor
– Scotia Capital Inc – Financial Advisor
– IBI – Design Team Lead
– Gehl Architects – Urban Quality Consultants
– Teeple Architects – Student Residence Design
– Wallman Architects – Affordable Housing Design
Village Infrastructure Partners (VIP)
– Fengate Capital- Equity Investor
– The Conservatory Group – Equity Investor, Developer, Constructor
– The Pemberton Group – Equity Investor, Developer, Constructor
– Saddlebrook – Constructor
– Laing O’Rourke – Design Build coordination
– National Bank – Financial Advisor
– TD Securities – Financial Advisor
– B+H Architects – Lead Architect, Coordinating Architect
– RegionalArchitects – Design Lead
– EI Richmond – Design Lead
– Arquitectonica – Design Lead
– West 8 – Lead Architect (Landscape)
Three short-listed teams were invited to submit bids in response to a request for proposals (RFP) that was issued on January 28, 2011. The teams all include companies with proven experience and capabilities in financing, designing, developing and constructing large, complex projects. The three
short-listed teams are:
Dundee Kilmer Developments Limited
– Dundee Realty Corporation – Equity Investor, Developer
– Kilmer Van Nostrand Co. Limited – Equity Investor, Developer
– EllisDon Corporation – Design Builder, Constructor
– Ledcor Design Build (Ontario) Inc. – Design Builder, Constructor
– Brookfield Financial Corp. – Financial Advisor
– architectsAlliance – Joint Venture Architect
– Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg – Joint Venture Architect
– Daoust LeStage Inc. – Urban Design Architect
– TEN Arquitectos – Design
Legacy Village Partners
– Lend Lease – Master Development Partner, Equity Provider, Project Lead
– Concert Properties Ltd – Master Development Partner, Equity Provider, Market
Rental Developer/Owner
– Tridel – Development Partner, Equity Provider of Market Condo Component
– PCL – General Contractor
– Deltera – General Contractor
– Scotia Capital Inc – Financial Advisor
– IBI – Design Team Lead
– Gehl Architects – Urban Quality Consultants
– Teeple Architects – Student Residence Design
– Wallman Architects – Affordable Housing Design
Village Infrastructure Partners (VIP)
– Fengate Capital- Equity Investor
– The Conservatory Group – Equity Investor, Developer, Constructor
– The Pemberton Group – Equity Investor, Developer, Constructor
– Saddlebrook – Constructor
– Laing O’Rourke – Design Build coordination
– National Bank – Financial Advisor
– TD Securities – Financial Advisor
– B+H Architects – Lead Architect, Coordinating Architect
– RegionalArchitects – Design Lead
– EI Richmond – Design Lead
– Arquitectonica – Design Lead
– West 8 – Lead Architect (Landscape)
dlam
Active Member
^ thanks for the information. Does anyone know if this is going to be a LEED ND (Neighbourhood Development) project?
edit: ah nm, i did a search and found out it is only going for LEED Gold for the buildings, not the entire neighbourhood.
edit: ah nm, i did a search and found out it is only going for LEED Gold for the buildings, not the entire neighbourhood.
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Toronto watches closely as Mexico scrambles to finish Pan Am prep
As Mexico rushes to finish building venues for the 2011 Pan American Games, officials from Toronto are keeping a watchful eye.
At least seven venues in the host city of Guadalajara are still under construction, with the games slated to start in October.
Mauricio Toussaint, the consul general of Mexico in Toronto, said on Wednesday that all three levels of government were “putting in all the efforts” to have facilities ready by the end of September
Ian Troop, CEO of Toronto’s 2015 Pan Am Games – the next after Guadalajara’s – was quick to point out the lessons to be learned from the Mexican Games. “There’s no doubt that at the front end of a four-year run like this, you’ve got to focus very hard on the long lead-time items and building is one of them,” he said.
Ground is yet to be broken on any of Toronto’s Pan Am facilities, however.
More.... http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...pan-am-games-prep/article2089096/?from=sec431
As Mexico rushes to finish building venues for the 2011 Pan American Games, officials from Toronto are keeping a watchful eye.
At least seven venues in the host city of Guadalajara are still under construction, with the games slated to start in October.
Mauricio Toussaint, the consul general of Mexico in Toronto, said on Wednesday that all three levels of government were “putting in all the efforts” to have facilities ready by the end of September
Ian Troop, CEO of Toronto’s 2015 Pan Am Games – the next after Guadalajara’s – was quick to point out the lessons to be learned from the Mexican Games. “There’s no doubt that at the front end of a four-year run like this, you’ve got to focus very hard on the long lead-time items and building is one of them,” he said.
Ground is yet to be broken on any of Toronto’s Pan Am facilities, however.
More.... http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...pan-am-games-prep/article2089096/?from=sec431
password1125
New Member
If I may add, if Toronto does bid for 2020 they will need a new swimming venue. The aquatic center being built at UTSC will only have 6,000 seats (as opposed to 10,000 in the bid book).
sixrings
Senior Member
Im all for a waterfront/downsview park proposal. A split site would help redevelop the waterfron and hopefully include a Pape-queen,wellington,union DRL. Also a downsview park that could have some extra athletic facilities and possibly a downsview to yonge and sheppard subway connection.
password1125
New Member
For TOronto to win, it will need a very compact bid that will be hard to refuse.
CanadianNational
Senior Member
I think the Portlands are a natural for a 2020 bid. They're close to downtown with specific access points, wonderfully photogenic and comprised of sites with ample - though unique - boundaries. They're already on the map for regeneration so some precedents and government infrastructure is in place to help it along. It's one of the only places downtown that has sufficient open, and relatively easily convertible land.
We could bulldoze the island airport in a pinch, I guess, but I suppose that's unlikely these-a-days.
If the Olympics were put on the portlands - who knows? We might even get a subway line to them.
After that, Downsview might not be too bad. A lot gets proposed for that area, but not much gets done, as it's none too scenic or exciting. Not too large, either. After these new developers have taken a chunk out of it, it's not going to be the field of dreams it once was. It might be only half the size of the area outlined in red, below.
Comparative area sizes, from Google Earth...
We could bulldoze the island airport in a pinch, I guess, but I suppose that's unlikely these-a-days.
If the Olympics were put on the portlands - who knows? We might even get a subway line to them.
After that, Downsview might not be too bad. A lot gets proposed for that area, but not much gets done, as it's none too scenic or exciting. Not too large, either. After these new developers have taken a chunk out of it, it's not going to be the field of dreams it once was. It might be only half the size of the area outlined in red, below.
Comparative area sizes, from Google Earth...
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Superstar
Maybe all this Olympic 2020 fantasy talk could go into the Toronto 2020 Olympic Bid thread? Has anyone seen even the slightest interest in an Olympic bid from any level of government or a groundswell of public opinion?
adeel
Active Member
^per that thread, seems the COC and the Feds are on board, Province is prety into it as well...only Ford/ie Toronto has to be willing to do a T.O. bid
TOareaFan
Superstar
check the thread today.....2020 appears to be a dead issue.
jje1000
Senior Member
Therein lay the problem. But that's that- we'd better focus now on not making fools of ourselves at the 2015 Pam Am Games.