[picard102]

Our tax dollars hard at work, no coordination, no project management

There is usually a moratorium on ripping up new roads. So projects often are coordinated to avoid getting stuck not being able to tear it up afterwards.

 

[nstuch]

why on earth didn't they bury the hydro wires when redoing the streetscape, they look terrible. is there a plan to remove them?

 

[neuhaus]

Measure once, cut twice (or more)…

 

[kotsy]

why on earth didn't they bury the hydro wires when redoing the streetscape, they look terrible. is there a plan to remove them?

You really want to give Toronto Hydro another reason to destroy our sidewalks?

 

[max]

why on earth didn't they bury the hydro wires when redoing the streetscape, they look terrible. is there a plan to remove them?

Complaints about unburied hydro wires are a renewable resource and part of their net zero strategy. Thank you for your continued outrage.

 

[GenerationLee]

Today, just poking in from Cityplace. You can see the office tower to the right in my third image. As I walked around the big park in this part of town, I thought of how beneficial the potential railyard deck park would be in knitting these two parts of the city together.

 

[Koops65]

 

[AHK]

January 30 - Overall, seemed to be fairly quiet in the early afternoon at The Well - both from a pedestrian traffic and from a visible construction activity perspective. Three miscellaneous construction photos:

 

[rdaner]

Mandy’s Gourmet Salads opens on 5 February. I wonder what else is opening soon?

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[AlbertC]

John Lorinc with a piece on the Well for Canadian Architect:

The Well, Toronto, Ontario

PROJECT The Well, Toronto, Ontario ARCHITECTS Hariri Pontarini Architects (Masterplan and Office), Adamson Associates Architects (Executive Architect), BDP (Retail, Canopy, Landscape Architect), CCxA Architectes Paysagistes (Landscape Architect—Masterplan and Public Realm), Giannone Petricone...

www.canadianarchitect.com

 

[evandyk]

He's someone who's usually fairly in the know, and writes:

As for the south side, the passageway and adjoining condo entrances opening onto Front are likely to spend the next 10 to 15 years staring at what will become a vast construction site. The five-tower Rail Deck District project is to be cantilevered over the GO/VIA rail corridor, after prevailing in a tense air-rights battle with the City of Toronto over the latter’s plan to build a multi-billion-dollar park above the tracks.

Does he know something we don't?

 

[generalcanada]

He's someone who's usually fairly in the know, and writes:



Does he know something we don't?

I mean its not like the rail deck district is dead. It will happen, the question is when

 

[everydayhim]

Recent site visit to the last building under construction

 

[SkylineHorizons]

Looked like the RailGun was targeting North York today

 

[rdaner]

Some pix from Mandy’s IG. Opening on Monday.

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