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Furthest project along without a single picture?

Yes sir: http://www.metrolinx.com/en/docs/pdf/board_agenda/20110428/Union_Station_Update.pdf http://transit.toronto.on.ca/archives/weblog/2011/05/10-crane_rest.shtml

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A few days ago:

Dcn Zoning for a seven-story office building in north Toronto with an eight-storey solar chimney, to be owned by Build Toronto, has been approved by City Council. The building, to be located at 4050 Yonge Street on the west side about a kilometre south of Highway 401, will include a total gross...

This should be in the train shed thread. I'd look for the crane mid-august.

IO's website (link in above post) says $594M (EDIT: That's PV) and that includes maintaining it for 30 years. Where is 1.1B coming from? Edit: OK....$1.1 is total value of payments

I've been involved in projects where excavation has been reduced to hit the budget (planning stages), so my experience is consistent with the "cost more to go down" theory. The soil conditions were bad, so I would imagine the structural guy's costs would go up. That said, CAMH is a P3 DBFM which...

Too early for a temporary hydro site service hut?

Oh come on...you don't think Infrastructure Ontario's output spec had 50 points for the proponent who could provide prisoners with the best views with tax payer money? :-)

Yes - all precast cells. This is a P3 DBFM, so not surprising. If you want to win, take every advantage. Been going on for a while: http://www1.infrastructureontario.ca/en/projects/mcscs/toronto_south/profile.asp

More info on the train shed project here: http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthread.php/3222-Union-Station-Shed-Replacement-amp-Track-Upgrades-(Zeidler-Partnership) The train shed project is GO Transit's while the Union Station Revitalization is the City of Toronto's. Different builders...

Royal Bank Data Centre turning into a condo?? Reallllllly?

I heard the extra units will likely be mid-building - something a bit easier to sell than penthouses.

June 21, 2011:

A couple of quick shots from lunchtime June 21, 2011:

MARS not looking so tall:

And they say smartphone cameras are improving...

Robarts mirror partially installed: