Recent content by Mithras

What I don't understand is cheapening or not, it's no extra cost to actually match the white glass on the front with white faux brick on the side, the grey and tan sides to black and white front is super jarring, especially in person. Honestly horrific.

None of those things are feasible. The literally billions in lost revenue added to the construction cost would never work out. Yorkdale has a low enough coverage that there's more than enough room to develop all you would ever need around it and replace parking with underground which usually...

My best friend lived for years in the condo building at the corner of Queen's Quay and Bathurst. His unit faced the airport and by an order of magnitude the loudest thing both inside and outside was the streetcar making the turn up Bathurst. There is no place more affected by the airport than...

Slate Asset Management is the external manager of Slate Office REIT and owns very little of it. While this may point to bad execution by their finance group on their mortgages it isn't really indicative of SLAM as a developer.

It's being sold as an 85 story building with no mention of extra floors available. They do mention that the new owner could refigure the penthouse floors.

The JLL brochure and offering doc list the height as 85 stories.

And also repainting the building tiffany blue from what I hear.

Too bad Abercombie & Fitch in its old iteration as outfitters isn't still around. This would have been the perfect place for it. Even could have put a fly fishing pond on the roof like they had on Madison Ave. They were in the Exchange Tower with a large store in the '80s. Kind of like a mix...

Across the street from this is Monza which if you have a south facing unit will have fantastic views which won't ever be disrupted.

There's a video walkthrough of Boston Consulting's new space there which is absolutely stunning.

Looks like CF is going to re-façade 20 Queen West. I think those two towers are pretty iconic to the Toronto city-scape so I'd hope they are done tastefully but I have my doubts.

I have to look at it every day from my office window!