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The site was sold.

And Wellesley is a high-rise corridor. Where the two intersect is always contentious. As another member stated - south of wellesley, church is basically a tower corridor. To the east and west, there's towers. The city would typically look for the kind of built form that you see at Queen +...

Well, yes and no. They did go out to the neighbourhood/city eventually, but there were a number of discussions with the city before that point and a number of schemes were explored well before 3XN was brought on board.

Interesting, one of the lot pairs in the middle of the whole site is up for sale: http://urbanretailtoronto.com/property/2271-2273-bloor-street-west/ Asking price is $7.495m if anyone is wondering!

From Sarah Doucette's site, "November 2017 Update - The proponent is no longer working on site plan approval. At this time no new actions are taking place on the site." http://ward13.ca/2265-bloor-st-w/ I'm relieved, because one of the best restaurants in the city (Awai) would be kicked out...

The city requires a floor-to-floor height of 4.5m. This one is 4.6m. The clear ceiling height is a different thing altogether, for which the city doesn't have any specific requirements - in this case it's 4200 because of the thickness of the structure. It would be around the same height with a...

Unfortunately it's tough to lease out office space without certain clear-height requirements. The City is pushing really, really, really hard on this site, to fit in with the HCD Guideliens - not every building ends up being a standout / "grand", sometimes they just need to fit in. I wouldn't...

Of course not! No one knows what they're doing - the entire city is full of fools and these guys are the biggest ones of all. It's a good thing you brought it up. Think you could help out?

what I'm aware of: the Draft Building lost its main tenants. The building became a lot smaller as a result (2 storeys), and there was still a huge parking component to consider. So it was becoming a very expensive project that Castlepoint wasn't able to finance - essentially they couldn't build...

That lennard's page is out of date, as the property wouldn't be getting demolished if it was still up for sale. Also, I believe the development application was modified. In march/april 2016, here's what the revised submission looked like Frankly, Mike Layton's twitter posts are ridiculous...

Correct!

Amazing! Love it. Which building were you shooting?

Sorry man, it sounds like you had a bad agent. How many did you meet with before choosing this person? Were they really the best of the bunch?

What do you think is involved in making an offer? Do you think you just call them up and tell them the price you want to pay, and that's it? You're being naive - if you have to ask if an agent is necessary, then by virtue of how little you know, the answer is YES, you need an agent. The only...

Yeah, it comes out very strongly against the project on the basis of Heritage considerations. Which is very strange, because the heritage character of that building went away when it was repainted awfully and added to clumsily (with windows boarded up). There's considerable reference to the fact...

In case anyone is interested, the OMB decision on this project came in just before Christmas. It's publicly available on the ELTO E-Decisions site so I think it's OK for me to post this direct link: http://www.omb.gov.on.ca/e-decisions/pl141140-dec-23-2015.pdf

OK, so where in between 2 and 18 months does it go from "ridiculous" to "feasible"? Hm? It's not that outlandish - I'm just picking a number out of thin air. Use whatever number you want - 6 months, 9 months, 18 months... The point is, the city needs to start really thinking outside the box if...

The construction timeline was 6 years for the "remove" option, with both the gardiner and lakeshore closed throughout. The hybrid option would keep lakeshore open most of the time, with construction lasting 1.5 years. Knowing delays/over-runs on these kinds of projects, I'd say we should assume...

out of curiosity, are there any updates to the development of this project? It has been a while!