20-26 Lombard and 25 Richmond Street East
Unless Great Gulf is only severing and acquiring part of the site, the lands should include the parking lot at the southeast corner of Richmond and Victoria, all the way east along Richmond to the electrical substation and south to but excluding the...
Connection between Filmport and Former Big Box Now Possible LRV Yard?
Maybe someone has already pointed this out, but isn't it kind of coincidental that the City of Toronto bought into Filmport (controlled by Rose Corporation) and is now considering locating this new LRV yard on the...
Pemberton Buys Bohemian Embassy Site
Pemberton bought this site from Baywood on August 6, 2009. The price was $4.5 million cash plus they assumed $4.128 million as part of two mortgages. Interestingly, there were actually five mortgages on the property.
Tridel has acquired this development
Trdel purchased and closed on 558-560 Front Street on August 21, 2009. They paid $9.5 million, all cash. I'm not sure of their intentions.
Found it - "The Camberley Club Hotel: Located on the 28th and 29th floor of the Scotia Plaza. We're in the center of the Cities Core. Providing 54 Luxurious Suites, Perfect For the Business Traveller Yet Quite and Romantic For Our Weekend Travellers. Our Suites Are Large and Spacious With 6...
Hotel
I may be misremembering, but I used to work in one of the upper floors of Scotia Plaza in the mid-1990s, and I believe that for a while there was a hotel within the high rise component of the office tower, between the middle and the top. I think it was one or two floors, sort of an...
Video tour of Bay Adelaide
Here is something that might be of interest - an interview with the construction manager and tour of the construction project:
http://www.smithcompany.ca/videocasts_bayadelaide_construction.htm
I haven't been following this thread too closely, so I apologize if...
Some more details on the plans?
Just received an emailed press release from Skyline that gives an overview of their purchase of Horseshoe Valley, but also has a tantalizing paragraph about the temperence site:
"The company is now in the process of developing a visionary new project in the...
I have heard from someone involved in the negotiations that PriceWaterhouseCoopers has now been signed on as the anchor tenant for this development, so it looks like it will be the fourth office tower to go ahead in the downtown core.
Some thoughts
The Brookfield guy and the KPMG guy on the panel said that it was two things. To paraphrase:
(1) instead of looking through one layer of glass in your corner office, you'd be looking through your window plus the fin depending on what direction you were looking, and
(2)...
I sat through a rather dull presentation on the Bay Adelaide project at the Real Estate Forum this week. It ended with a rather tame staged debate between Ryk Stryland from Brookfield (the senior guy in charge of the project) and the KPMG rep on building signage. The KPMG guy said they wanted...
Reconsidering Design
Spoke to someone involved with the project at Oxford (the owner of RAC) the other day, he said they are now reconsidering their plans. Not sure what this will mean - probably the residential component is a bit of a long shot though.
Underground parking lot
This site is part of a larger site that has been owned for more than a decade by a Hong Kong investor. The previous owners had at one time received approval for a two tower condo complex back in the 1980s, I think. The site includes the L-shaped parking lot fronting on...
SaxMan ads
Has anyone seen the recent ads for Chicago in all the print media? The ones with the guy playing the saxaphone on the 33rd floor, on a ledge with only five feet between him and certain death? Surely that can't be safe!
It strikes me as one of the funniest images I've seen in a...