Benito
Senior Member
Today, no change on site.
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AdamS
Active Member
Hello Adam,
Happy New Year.
We have received your inquiry about construction at The One and wanted to share an update.
The site is now at grade and had phased permitting on the development. The phased permitting began with our demolition followed by shoring, excavation, and foundation works. The city has issued a stop work order now that we are at grade. As we apply for our above grade permits, the city will audit the work to date and ensure we satisfy the above grade permit requirements as a result of the construction progressing faster than the current permits. We will have the above grade permits on or before January 30 and will continue with the erection of the above grade works and tower.
Should you have further questions please do not hesitate to contact us at (416) 519-6717.
Kind Regards,
The ONE Sales Team
The ONE | Mizrahi Developments
www.onebloorwest.com
Happy New Year.
We have received your inquiry about construction at The One and wanted to share an update.
The site is now at grade and had phased permitting on the development. The phased permitting began with our demolition followed by shoring, excavation, and foundation works. The city has issued a stop work order now that we are at grade. As we apply for our above grade permits, the city will audit the work to date and ensure we satisfy the above grade permit requirements as a result of the construction progressing faster than the current permits. We will have the above grade permits on or before January 30 and will continue with the erection of the above grade works and tower.
Should you have further questions please do not hesitate to contact us at (416) 519-6717.
Kind Regards,
The ONE Sales Team
The ONE | Mizrahi Developments
www.onebloorwest.com
Fritter
Active Member
Much ado about nothing.
I guess the sky was NOT falling.
I guess the sky was NOT falling.
Contra
Senior Member
"Construction progressing faster than the current permits." is either poor management on the permit side or fantastic construction but it is most definitely fantastic PR work haha
got it right
Active Member
So Sam.....why was the stop work order issued LONG before you hit grade?........ Why did you fail to deal with the stop work order which resulted in a non compliance being issued?......why would you start a project like this without a permit? Being that the building is a year behind schedule, why didn't you receive the permits during the last 2 1/2 years? Shall I go on.....
ADRM
Senior Member
please god do not.
got it right
Active Member
I know..for some people the facts are tough to deal with....
andrewjm3d
Active Member
What facts did you provide? Just a whole lot of speculative notions as to how the Bazis company is poorly handling this construction according to your deep inside knowledge. You seem to have all of the questions and your own hyperbolic answers to them already.
ChesterCopperpot
Senior Member
Bazis??
Who are we to doubt someone who built big box stores for Walmart?
Who are we to doubt someone who built big box stores for Walmart?
Strange Advance
Active Member
Thanks for posting the reply, AdamS. Grain of salt, obviously, but let's expect it to resume construction in February.
MetroMan
Senior Member
Well, that's pure PR. They make it sound like this was expected. Instead, they were ordered to stop, so much that they dropped everything they were in the middle of.
I had no doubt that this would continue and it's good to have a more specific date for restarting but being ordered to stop isn't normal. I admire Mizrahi's ambition — the location, the height, the architect, the anchor retail tenant — but he's clearly learning the ropes as he goes. For everyone's sake, I wish him luck.
thaivic
Active Member
Maybe it has something to do with Section 37 funds that they have to pay to the city as per their settlement agreement, typically this is paid when applying for the above grade permit.
p5connex
Active Member
While not strictly on topic, but related...
The city's permitting offices does not have enough staff to review the shear quantity of permit requests coming in. While this is mostly true, planning review staff use this backlog as leverage to push for more and more overtime (lots of it!!!), in order to get your permit review back-on-track (which is a misnomer). On two recent, but separate occasions, I had plans examiners for different disciplines request I call/email their manager to request overtime, in order to get things back on track. Even after this push and countless days of prodding, requesting, emailing etc., the permit review was still almost 2 years behind. The kicker, was that 2 out of 3 plans examiners were on the "Sunshine List" for over a decade (+$140K), meaning they were working a lot, right?! No, they were nearly unreachable, or gone for days at a time.
All that being said, it is usually a combination of owner and city who is responsible for the delays - ie: missing information, insufficient info, filed too late, lack of personnel at the city etc..This will be sorted soon enough..
The city's permitting offices does not have enough staff to review the shear quantity of permit requests coming in. While this is mostly true, planning review staff use this backlog as leverage to push for more and more overtime (lots of it!!!), in order to get your permit review back-on-track (which is a misnomer). On two recent, but separate occasions, I had plans examiners for different disciplines request I call/email their manager to request overtime, in order to get things back on track. Even after this push and countless days of prodding, requesting, emailing etc., the permit review was still almost 2 years behind. The kicker, was that 2 out of 3 plans examiners were on the "Sunshine List" for over a decade (+$140K), meaning they were working a lot, right?! No, they were nearly unreachable, or gone for days at a time.
All that being said, it is usually a combination of owner and city who is responsible for the delays - ie: missing information, insufficient info, filed too late, lack of personnel at the city etc..This will be sorted soon enough..
innsertnamehere
Superstar
Roy G Biv
Senior Member
Considering that most new condo builds are of shoddy quality (ie. plumbing), I'm not sure whether the Province's proposal to let developers self-regulate will worsen the situation or simply keep it at status quo.