Crane went up on the weekend:

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Not much footage of the actual action. But approaching the site from Spadina, there's still a fairly large amount of surface parking space behind the existing buildings, that are not part of the current new addition.

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The U of T will likely be redeveloping the western ⅔ of the site in then not-too-distant future

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It would be great if the Kirby and the Pokémon mural could be preserved (if legally possible of course, as Nintendo co-owns the individual characters depicted with HAL Laboratory (Kirby) and the Pokémon Company (the individual Pokémon), not the University of Toronto nor the artist who painted it).
 

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