[Ed007Toronto]

This area is going to be crazy dense soon. Bay Street is coming back.

 

[ganjavih]

Oooh, this is my parking lot... the one I've been waiting for years to be developed! I thought it was the parking lot between the Nightmare and LuCliff (Nightmare II). Great news!

 

[El Chico905]

Wow...I've been to sick kids a lot, can't believe I never noticed that...

 

[mark simpson]

760 Bay

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

mark simpson:

Thanks. Unfortunately, there's nothing under that address either.

OT note:

The 2005 Development Portfolio is out, with clickable maps:
www.toronto.ca/planning/d.../index.htm

AoD

 

[whatever]

Sick Kids Hospital Research Building (24s)

There's one of those white development application signs up on a Bay St. parking lot (on the West side of Bay, bounded by Bay, Elm, Walton, and that big smokestack building) saying that they want to build a 24 storey office and research building.

I've heard rumours about a new Sick Kids building, but not about anything that large. Would be great if it goes ahead tho, would mean a lot of new jobs and it would fill in a gaping hole on Bay St.

 

[catcher_of_cats]

This site is perfect for an office tower in which it could be directly connected to the path system, and will also break up the monotony of condos further up the street.

 

[ganjavih]

Diamond et al are working on this one.

 

[Hypnotoad]

Great news. I figured the Sick Kids expansion would go in this spot and I'm happy to hear about it. Next they just need to fill in the packing lot beside the Delta Chelsea (or just remove the entire Delta Chelsea) and Bay south of College will be pretty much filled in (1 city Hall, bus station and the thing on Elm, notwithstanding).

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

From the July Non-Residental Development Applications:

http://www.toronto.ca/planning/development_portfolio/pdf/non_residential_july_2008.pdf

AoD

 

[interchange42]

This is a 650,000 square foot building they're planning here, which is no small potatoes! At 24 floors, those would be 27,000 square foot floor plates on average, which would make the floors just a bit larger than the Bay Adelaide's. I look forward to more details about this tower.

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[Observer Walt]

Wow, that is indeed a pretty significant building. It will fill in a significant gap downtown. Let's hope for a landmark.

 

[Mike in TO]

Another Bay Street parking lot gone.

 

[Hypnotoad]

How long before the Bus Station and the SE corner of Bay-Gerrard are next? Great news for the area and the break-up of the condo creep.

 

[ShonTron]

Excellent. Good to see more jobs downtown, and man, this is one massive floorplate. It should help to counter the condos with columns pattern on this stretch of Bay.

But I've got an idea for floor names, given that this is Sick Kids doing medical experiments.

Main Floor (since the current place starts numbering on the second floor)
1. Deirdre
2. Vincent
3. Tessa
4. Valerie
5. Janine
6. Martha
7. Andrew
8. Thomas
9. Walter
10. Pat
11. Linda
12. Michael
13. Evadne
14. Alice
15. Dominique
16. Sasha
17. Laura
18. Alfred
19. Nigel
20. Annie
21. Simon
22. Amanda
23. Gordon