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Bay Adelaide Centre West Tower (Brookfield, 50s, WZMH)

Any "opening up" of the Richmond side will have to presuppose a more general "urbanization" of Richmond (i.e. whatever's awaiting the N end of the Bay-Adelaide assemblage)
 
^ Excellent point. B/A holds the power to fix up the mess on that stretch of Richmond. If they build store fronts and busy entrance ways facing Richmond, The Bay would have every interest in opening up their now closed doors to this street to receive more potential shoppers.

Who knows? Perhaps this is what is going on now: they've begun to restore the Bay building and would continue with the Richmond façade which should be finished by the time B/A opens for business.
 
Bay Adelaide is humming along

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This one is really moving fast, they work at the site pretty much everyday until 7-8, its crazy.
This is last week;
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And today;
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These next two are taken from those little viewing windows, please excuse the blurriness.
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Some demolishing work
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Thanks ,
Paul
 
And they were working this past Saturday as well.

Usually tarps showing the facade of the building behind it are usually reserved for centuries-old buildings that are going through restoration work. The Bay must be one special building to get that kind of treatment!
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Check out the base of the scaffolds. They are encased in two foot high concrete walls. Never seen that kind of base for a scaffold before.
 
urbanboyto said:
They should hold a celebration when it rises higher than the former Stump!
Who would have thought?
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Or they could run a joke feature in the newspapers claiming that the general contracting company went bankrupt, forcing suspension of construction operations indefinitely.

Then again, that might not generate very favourable PR.
 
MetroMan said:
A good cleaning and opening those windows would do marvels for that building. Remember, this is supposed to be the flagship store of the chain. Right now, there are much nicer Bay stores around the country.
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Word is, the new private owner of HBC wants to sell this flag-ship building and office tower, and only rent out 2 floors for The Bay. The rest would be converted to office space. Possibly the clean-up is to make it more attractive to a buyer?
 
Ed007Toronto said:
And they were working this past Saturday as well.



Check out the base of the scaffolds. They are encased in two foot high concrete walls. Never seen that kind of base for a scaffold before.
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They used them when they rebuilt the facade at the New Yorker Theatre a few years back.
 
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