I'm always confused by people that seem to get giddy at the prospect of a project going sideways ... which there is no reason at this time to think this one is.
That really isn't a good answer. As both are currently more competent than Cresford. And have better design sense than Canderel. And are less obnoxious than Lamb. But none of these developers are what this thread is about though...so we really shouldn't be bringing them here to wave around. Neither should you with Hines/Ivanhoé Cambridge, IMO.
I suspect not one member of UT, myself included, wouldn't be thrilled to see this 2/3 completed and looking just like the renderings. Of course we would. That however doesn't mean that we have to become apologists for a developer whose performance has been nothing short of brutal.
And Huoshenshan Hospital in China broke ground and finished in the course of a couple of weeks. Does that make CIBC Square a failure then?
It’s symptomatic of psychological self defence. Many people, through social conditioning, equate enthusiasm with naivety, being unguarded, and thus weakness. They associate pessimism with worldliness and optimism with being a chump. Deep down they long for a positive outcomes as do the rest of us, but to believe in happy endings would show them up as fools, and who wants to be taken for a fool? Ergo, it’s safer to be ”too cool for school”, impressed by nothing, and pessimistic about everything. Then, when it all goes wrong, they can say, “See? I knew it would all go wrong!” And when it all goes right, despite their expectations, they’ll call it a fluke, or assure the rest of us that there’s stuff going on that we just can’t see right now and in time we’ll all see they were right to be pessimistic all along.
