[MetroMan]

Are there any plans to improve the public realm in this area? For one of the city's most important landmark intersections, it could be better.

At the very least, the sidewalk here will have been widened more than triple its Stollery’s size.

There’ll be trees and seating since it’s assumed that it’ll continue the templates used elsewhere along the Mink Mile.

Those are pretty substantial improvements. Other than that, I’m not sure what we could do short of knocking down the Hudson’s Bay Centre and building something set back enough to build a civic space such as a square. I agree that this is an important intersection, but I can’t imagine it being flanked by nothing other than more density.

 

[androiduk]

 

[androiduk]

Only about a dozen workers on site today and most of them were working on those rebar walls that are connecting the supercolumns.

 

[thaivic]

 

[thaivic]

Tuesday Morning

 

[andrewjm3d]

I hope more steel arrives this weekend.

 

[Contra]

I hope more steel arrives this weekend.

Looks like there's still a lot of work to be done on the current level so seems unlikely. Typically been seeing new steel every 2-3 weeks.

 

[MetroMan]

I hope more steel arrives this weekend.

I don’t think anyone was expecting winter to arrive in mid November. I have a feeling this is going to delay the project. I bet they were expecting to have the complex foundation and underground structural work completed before the snow and then have the tower start rising over the winter.

 

[androiduk]

Saturday. About a half dozen workers on site today. Forms are being installed around the supercolumns. If you look right centre you can see the massive amount of rebar being installed to connect the supercolumns.

 

[androiduk]

 

[Towered]

What's the reason that the black crane is so much beefier than usual?

 

[ushahid]

for lifting heavy metal columns. i think it's diesel and has more torque than usual cranes.. it can lift upto 86 tons, i remember reading that in the article.

 

[MetroMan]

Tons of activity in the south end of the site over the annex building with hours long concrete pouring but absolutely nothing happening on the site of the main tower.

 

[brianyyz]

Tons of activity in the south end of the site over the annex building with hours long concrete pouring but absolutely nothing happening on the site of the main tower.

Around 13:30 today (Thursday) they were doing lifts with the main crane of some drilled steel plates.

 

[packers67]

I did a little personal recon mission on Wed Nov 20th over the noon-hour and very little was happening on the main site. I believe ALL entrants to our "Meeting the Grade" contest will be proven woefully optimistic.