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Before they started working on it again a couple of years back, the official line on this building is that it didn't exist. It was regularly airbrushed out of photos of Pyongyang, even though it's absolutely massive and impossible to avoid noticing. Commentators over the years have regularly...

Well, from what I've heard of occupancy rates, no one wants to stay there, anyway. The only thing useful I've seen TRUM do for this particular corner of Downtown is attract the odd Ferrari.

I'm really amazed Cactus Club in FCP hasn't opened yet. They've been working on that for months (I think eight or nine by now). Anyone heard what's going on there?

Some PATH updates: Bittersweet and Danier are both now closed for renos in the TD Centre. Nine West in FCP is now apparently closed--the hoarding is still blank, so not quite sure whether this is a reno or permanent. Still nothing in the old HMV spot. There is a David's Tea slated to open in...

And there is still a chunk of missing teal glass about ten or twelve storeys up, west side. Not too visible from street level but pretty unsightly from neighbouring buildings.

I'm not so sure about that. Detroit's death spiral has been 50 years in the making, and the downtown almost entirely hollowed out before a few preservation projects have come in in recent years (still an awful lot of parking lots and empty buildings). The Loop, OTOH, is still quite healthy. I...

The whole structure has just meandered along for months. The glass section pictured has been in place for a couple of weeks now. I have no idea why it's taking so long to complete.

Assorted PATH changes: Danier in the TD Centre is now closed, presumably for renos (as they held a reno sale before the closure). Papyrus is going into the old Reitman's space. Miori has now opened in the Royal Bank Plaza. The Lindt store in FCP has now been open a few weeks. HMV is now...

They've been running clearance sales for the last month or so, although the pricing was nothing special. I'm curious whether that will affect some of the acts they bring in to perform at FCP. They have often run autograph sessions for CDs coordinated by HMV.

Couple of things: If you want to explore the PATH, this is one area where it helps to be doing so on a weekday before 5 or 6. A lot of the stores just aren't open over the weekends or later into the evening, and unless you just like walking through underground tunnels, you'd want to be there...

Starbucks at TD is now open. I also noticed the new Adelaide Club health clinic in FCP has now opened as well.

Starbucks in the TD Centre (old Timothy's location) opened last week. Anyone know the status on the new Cactus Club in FCP? They seem to have been working on this one forever, and I would have thought they'd want to open in time for patio season.

If they want to continue to mar their image of luxury by having a building with a less-than-luxurious exterior, that's their call. It's certainly annoying to those of us who have to live with it across the street, but not worth the time and effort to protest officially.

I was in Chicago two weeks ago and saw their Trump Building. I don't care how nice ours is inside--we got hosed. I can't believe that after over a year being open, the building still looks filthy--I see no evidence it's ever been cleaned. The windows have never been washed, there are all...

That's the book on the demolition of the Woolworth building (where Trump now stands). I own a copy. It was specifically torn down for parking, which was supposedly needed more at the time than a low-rise Moderne building.

I've a PhD in history, but with a focus on medieval history. I decided to forgo the horrid academic job market and have been in project management for the past eleven years, so I am a historian by vocation and training rather than profession. I do hope to have time at some point to return to...

I was just wondering whether there were any around that still had the chestnuts. I've been wanting to try them for ages.

There are also all manner of stains on the granite on that facade (as well as that one missing teal panel), and I'm not sure the windows have ever been properly washed. None of this is readily apparent from street level, but I work right across the street and have a close view.

Amazing how fast time goes. It was seven years ago.

The Ajax store is certainly coming along. The exterior is done and the way the interior is lit points to finishing work taking place right now (lighting looks to be done). I expect it to be in the first wave (although probably not first overall, since Ajax is not exactly party central, unless...