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191 Parliament Office Tower Hits Market as Parliament & Co | UrbanToronto

A Kohn Partnership Architects-designed 11-storey building with a unique combination of office and live-work spaces is planned by developer Downing Street for Parliament Street near Queen in Downtown Toronto.

urbantoronto.ca

 

[Vanalla]

This is interesting real estate wise. The floor plans are combining office spaces and bedrooms, touting them as "Guest hosting space".

Don't know about you, but if a company was paying for my travel but had me put up literally inside their office (let alone their building) I would be having second, third, and fourth thoughts about continuing to work for them. If I were a business owner it would be incredibly weird for me to just live in my office space, especially if I had employees coming and going. (and a family!)

Haven't there been countless studies showing the negative health effects of merging work and home? Isn't this almost like literally never being disconnected?

Strikes me as a sneaky way for developers to start charging office rent for residential space, and that's a dangerous precedent to be setting in the middle of a housing crisis.

 

[innsertnamehere]

It's likely a zoning trick for some reason to qualify them as work-live spaces. Reality is that nobody will ever live in them.

 

[AlbertC]

Looks like this may be renamed as "Warehouse Lofts" by The Sher Corporation:

Official Website of Warehouse Lofts Toronto - By The Sher Corporation & Downing Street

Warehouse Lofts Toronto is a complete reimagining of urban live/work space and modern loft living in Downtown Toronto at the corner of Queen and Parliament in historic Corktown.

warehouseloftstoronto.ca

Official Website of The Sher Corporation

The Sher Corporation is Toronto-based Real Estate Developer. Our latest project IVY Condos, is coming soon to Downtown Toronto.

shercorp.ca

 

[AlbertC]

Should be getting closer to launching:

 

[AlbertC]

The project website says that they're "now preparing for demolition" of the existing building on site:

Official Website of Warehouse Lofts Toronto - By The Sher Corporation & Downing Street

Warehouse Lofts Toronto is a complete reimagining of urban live/work space and modern loft living in Downtown Toronto at the corner of Queen and Parliament in historic Corktown.

warehouseloftstoronto.ca

While on Sher Corp's main website, they're saying that construction has started:

Official Website of The Sher Corporation

The Sher Corporation is Toronto-based Real Estate Developer. Our latest project IVY Condos, is coming soon to Downtown Toronto.

shercorp.ca

 

[yin_yang]

I remember smoking up in there it used to be a pot lounge.

 

[AlbertC]

Demolition has begun at the rear of the current buildings:


July 12, 2021

 

[AlbertC]

From Kohn's Twitter, posted on July 22, 2021:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1418224593542606848

 

[bilked]

 

[elcorrerador]

Noticed some activity on the site this week. Drilling has started.

 

[AlbertC]

From Sher Corp's website, with the date of April 18, 2022:

Official Website of The Sher Corporation - Parliament & Co

Parliament&Co. at the corner of Queen and Parliament has the gritty aesthetic of a warehouse conversion with the most high-tech systems on the market today.

shercorp.ca

 

[AlbertC]

From Sher Corp, dated May 5, 2022:

Official Website of The Sher Corporation - Parliament & Co

Parliament&Co. at the corner of Queen and Parliament has the gritty aesthetic of a warehouse conversion with the most high-tech systems on the market today.

shercorp.ca

 

[bilked]

 

[AlbertC]

Update from Sher Corp, dated at July 19th, 2022:

Official Website of The Sher Corporation - Warehouse Lofts Toronto

Located in the top five levels of the heritage-inspired Parliament&Co, Warehouse Lofts Toronto is coming to the corner of Queen and Parliament.

shercorp.ca