1 Bloor East, DEAD AND BURIED (Bazis, -2s, Varacalli)

[urbandreamer]

Basically, scan through the condo guide, smaller developments we discuss on UT, and you can imagine 1/3 of them will NEVER get built.

I can think of some right away==Queen East, LV, perhaps some on King W and E, Etobicoke, STC, College St/Little Italy townhouses, new developers to Toronto including ... bazis??? And those ugly things being sold in the wilderness--Markham, Allen Rd, Don Mills, St Clair W, etc.

 

[Evan]

This better not fail. I'm sick of the single core skyline.

 

[androiduk]

^ Yeah, and I'm tired of schlepping all the way down to the Eaton Centre when I can have my own (hopefully superior) miniature version 2 blocks away. Progress rocks!

 

[Ryuinfinity]

Any update on anything? Is there an excavator on the site yet?

 

[androiduk]

The only company on site right now is Eastern Soil. They're drilling all over the place. Once in awhile I've seen a surveyor. EllisDon has about 6 signs up on the site. I believe there is a meeting at the end of this month that will determine whether or not they get the necessary permits to go ahead.

 

[Ryuinfinity]

THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE THE PERMIT YET?!?! If this building isn't even approved, why the hell did they demolish shops and restaurants for what might be doomed to be a parking lot?!

 

[androiduk]

I think it goes in stages. First they get the demolition permit, then the shoring permit, then the excavation permit, etc. etc.

 

[khris]

THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE THE PERMIT YET?!?! If this building isn't even approved, why the hell did they demolish shops and restaurants for what might be doomed to be a parking lot?!

This has been discussed a lot over the past 20 pages or so.

I think it goes in stages. First they get the demolition permit, then the shoring permit, then the excavation permit, etc. etc.

It is weird the way the process works.

 

[taal]

Yes I agree but this is not an isolated case with 1 bloor east other developments have followed a similar timeline.

Agreed though, it doesn't make much sense.

 

[DaninToronto]

The city wont let this development linger as a parking lot.

 

[UrbanAffair]

Yeah I don't think the zoning by laws or usage by laws would allow a parking lot. What it would become if it wasn't built right away, (which it will be anyway) is a boarded up area. Which is just as bad, but at least it doesn't look like a paved field.

 

[androiduk]

This is the only reason why they haven't started.

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Application: Partial Permit Status: Under Review

Location: 1 BLOOR ST E
TORONTO ON M4W 1A9

Ward 27: Toronto Centre-Rosedale

Application#: 08 201447 SHO 00 PP Accepted Date: Sep 9, 2008

Project: Mixed Use/Res w Non Res Partial Permit - Shoring

Description: Part Permit - Proposal to construct a 4 sty podium consisting of retail and hotel/residential area & 5 levels of below grade parking. NOTE: Future 77 sty tower to follow as PHASE 2.

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[alklay]

And who was laughing at my suggestion (5 pages ago) that we would have 10 more pages of discussions about parking lots and this project not going ahead?

 

[3Dementia]

It is going ahead. What do you mean? 77 + 4 = 81.

 

[Quanttrader]

THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE THE PERMIT YET?!?! If this building isn't even approved, why the hell did they demolish shops and restaurants for what might be doomed to be a parking lot?!

To make it look this it's going ahead to the nervous flippers in there. Par for the course with this builder.