[canarob]

MaRS and U of T are leasing 24,000 square feet – with an option to lease an additional 24,000 square feet – at Menkes’s Waterfront Innovation Centre, a building under construction across from Sugar Beach, on the inner harbour. It is set to open in 2021 and Menkes wants the building to be home to creative and technology businesses.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/bus...district-to-open-second-location-on-torontos/

 

[christiesplits]

I'm lol'ing at all the media announcements showing the old - and much more ambitious - renders:

https://twitter.com/uoftmagazine/status/1044568771107672065
https://twitter.com/alex_mckeen/status/1044634123611107331

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

The old rendering looked too much like the acclaimed Student Learning Centre on Gould Street, can't be having that. Instead, Brampton office park is better suited for our waterfront.

 

[Amare]

The old rendering looked too much like the acclaimed Student Learning Centre on Gould Street, can't be having that. Instead, Brampton office park is better suited for our waterfront.

This is Toronto, where the backwards thinking logic option often gets chosen by the "industry shakers" of our time.

 

[syn]

I still can't believe all of this got past the Design Review Panel.

 

[ChesterCopperpot]

Well it did so .....

 

[TheKingEast]

It's Menkes. M is for melba toast.

 

[Filip]

Well it did so .....

Your signature speaks volumes:

"Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation" - Jack Nicklaus

And as aspirational as it is - Toronto is heading in the opposite direction.

 

[ProjectEnd]

 

[vini007]

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/bus...district-to-open-second-location-on-torontos/

Am socked that Mars as few years ago lot of ppl on this site were criticizing them for lack of occupancy on university building and now this renting space as they're out of space on their own building on University/college? just wondering if this is the same institution Mars..thank you...

 

[DSC]

Am socked that Mars as few years ago lot of ppl on this site were criticizing them for lack of occupancy on university building and now this renting space as they're out of space on their own building on University/college? just wondering if this is the same institution Mars..thank you...

The G&M mention of 'second site' is a clue and their TGH site is now apparently fully occupied - with a waiting list. The Ontario government was wise to lend them additional $$ to buy-out their private partner (Alexandria Real Estate) during the 2008-2010 'recession' and move ahead with building Tower 2 (corner of University/College.) The government loan has now all (?) been repaid.

 

[vini007]

The G&M mention of 'second site' is a clue and their TGH site is now apparently fully occupied - with a waiting list. The Ontario government was wise to lend them additional $$ to buy-out their private partner (Alexandria Real Estate) during the 2008-2010 'recession' and move ahead with building Tower 2 (corner of University/College.) The government loan has now all (?) been repaid.

thank you DSC for the update and very happy that their building is fully occupied...

 

[bilked]

 

[sammmy]

 

[Marcanadian]

From the Site Plan application resubmission dated November 19:

http://app.toronto.ca/DevelopmentAp...icationsList.do?action=init&folderRsn=3573163