G_DOG
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Here is another rendering. This one completed by Maldive at SSP
This is only the new projects to be completed in Toronto over the next few years.
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amazing!
Dan416
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I think the render should only include projects that are under construction, that way we don't get our hopes up for buildings that may or may not be built (like Sapphire, the Manulife Tower, the one on University)
3Dementia
Senior Member
You're only one for three if you are referring to that render. Just the University Ave tower is there.
Blixtein
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This is indeed an astounding rendering.
caltrane74
Senior Member
Most of the buildings in that render are under construction, or will be shortly.
badga
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Yonge-Bloor tenants told to move
Demolition to begin in December to make way for 79-storey condo-hotel complex
DANNY GALLAGHER
Special to The Globe and Mail
September 4, 2007
Moving on in the face of change and urban renewal can be difficult. In the case of about 20 businesses at the southeast corner of Yonge and Bloor Streets, the prospect of relocating has suddenly become all too real.
Bazis International of Concord is scheduled to construct a 79-storey complex at the site and intends to start demolition in December. And so recently it sent out lease-termination notices. That's when reality set in.
"To have to move from here is a very big loss for me," said 75-year-old Jack Tcherkezian, the owner of HyArt Gallery, a photo-frame operation he has run for 15 years in Roy's Square, a quaint, 18-foot-wide laneway that runs south from Bloor and then circles west toward Yonge. "It's a very big project they're planning. When it's finished, there's going to be a lot more waste, garbage, congestion, traffic, people and cars."
Across the laneway, Percy More, manager of Ritz Caribbean Food, is perturbed at the idea of having to move. "We're very upset and our customers are upset because we don't want to leave," Mr. More said. "They are running us out just like that."
The project will cost close to $500-million and will include 450 condos, a 120-room, five-star boutique hotel and a number of retailers. Although no names for the hotel and retailers have been finalized, Bazis has decided on the price range for its condos: $300,000 for a one-bedroom unit to over $2-million for a full-floor penthouse of close to 10,000 square feet.
Some modifications are being made to architect Roy Varacalli's original exterior design, but the size and height remain intact.
"The project goes to marketing in October," Mr. Varacalli said. That's when Bazis will find out how the public will respond to its condo sales pitch.
The development will run east along Bloor and one full block south to Hayden Street, the location of the Naval Club, another casualty of the project.
"Nobody at our club is happy about this project but what can you do?" said Naval Club president Alan Simpson as he sipped a beer at the club, which has about 325 members. "But this is not something new. They've been talking about this for a few years."
Knowing something is coming doesn't make it welcome, though.
"It's a great location for us. We have the best corner in the city with the subway system," he said.
Veronika Belovich, Bazis's director sales and marketing, said: "We're trying to make the city better. This is a junky corner and we want to make it a fabulous area."
Demolition to begin in December to make way for 79-storey condo-hotel complex
DANNY GALLAGHER
Special to The Globe and Mail
September 4, 2007
Moving on in the face of change and urban renewal can be difficult. In the case of about 20 businesses at the southeast corner of Yonge and Bloor Streets, the prospect of relocating has suddenly become all too real.
Bazis International of Concord is scheduled to construct a 79-storey complex at the site and intends to start demolition in December. And so recently it sent out lease-termination notices. That's when reality set in.
"To have to move from here is a very big loss for me," said 75-year-old Jack Tcherkezian, the owner of HyArt Gallery, a photo-frame operation he has run for 15 years in Roy's Square, a quaint, 18-foot-wide laneway that runs south from Bloor and then circles west toward Yonge. "It's a very big project they're planning. When it's finished, there's going to be a lot more waste, garbage, congestion, traffic, people and cars."
Across the laneway, Percy More, manager of Ritz Caribbean Food, is perturbed at the idea of having to move. "We're very upset and our customers are upset because we don't want to leave," Mr. More said. "They are running us out just like that."
The project will cost close to $500-million and will include 450 condos, a 120-room, five-star boutique hotel and a number of retailers. Although no names for the hotel and retailers have been finalized, Bazis has decided on the price range for its condos: $300,000 for a one-bedroom unit to over $2-million for a full-floor penthouse of close to 10,000 square feet.
Some modifications are being made to architect Roy Varacalli's original exterior design, but the size and height remain intact.
"The project goes to marketing in October," Mr. Varacalli said. That's when Bazis will find out how the public will respond to its condo sales pitch.
The development will run east along Bloor and one full block south to Hayden Street, the location of the Naval Club, another casualty of the project.
"Nobody at our club is happy about this project but what can you do?" said Naval Club president Alan Simpson as he sipped a beer at the club, which has about 325 members. "But this is not something new. They've been talking about this for a few years."
Knowing something is coming doesn't make it welcome, though.
"It's a great location for us. We have the best corner in the city with the subway system," he said.
Veronika Belovich, Bazis's director sales and marketing, said: "We're trying to make the city better. This is a junky corner and we want to make it a fabulous area."
spaced
Active Member
"Some modifications are being made to architect Roy Varacalli's original exterior design, but the size and height remain intact."
Argg, what a tease.
Argg, what a tease.
Roots_Energize
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fabulous for who? rich people with lots of money? big expensive chain stores, more exclusive commerical devolopment?
certainly not easily used spaces for local indie businesses to spring up, certainly not for icky artist or lower income people,
some fabulous tower for selected few, the rest can just walk on by and admire our fabulous tower, you might not be able to shop or live there but atleast you can feel blessed that your eyes have graced the fabulous corner,
the building looks alright, atleast its not a complete box!
Roots_Energize
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the fabulous corner connected with a fabulous street and the world famous fabulous yorkville area, you can hear people talking about the fabulous history of a once icky area turning into a fab one , from hippies to fabulous people in a world class city of cloned big fancy stores with no unique essance, lets hop from city to city and shop at the same stores, have the same experience,
theres a new book out called the suburbanization of new york city, as downtown cores become richer, and more suburban they loose there unique quility and become like every other place, i know this is midtown areae.
whats needed is a balance, not too rich, not too poor, not to many chain stores, but at the sametime not let it become filthy run down strips of dollar stores, the natural world always supports diversity.
theres a new book out called the suburbanization of new york city, as downtown cores become richer, and more suburban they loose there unique quility and become like every other place, i know this is midtown areae.
whats needed is a balance, not too rich, not too poor, not to many chain stores, but at the sametime not let it become filthy run down strips of dollar stores, the natural world always supports diversity.
Hipster Duck
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^That might be a valid argument if we lived in Zurich or London or one of those cities where millionaires are being edged out by gazillionaires, but we live in Toronto, a city of 5 million people which can barely support two blocks of premium chain retail on Bloor street. If "local indie" businesses want to set up shop, they have a vast tract of area to colonize: basically everything south of Bloor, west of Bathurst and all the way to High Park.
casaguy
Senior Member
Not sure if saying something like that is the best way to get everyone on your side. It's interesting that the writer chose to end his article with that quote.
What I wish she would have said is how important it is to create mega density at a crucial intersection of downtown Toronto. Two subway lines intersect right underneath 1 Bloor and the city needs to take advantage of that. As well, it will most likely translate into an influx of cash for the TTC.
urbandreamer
recession proof
but how many people paying an average of $600,000 for a condo will take the ttc? Very few imo. Let's guess maybe 10% of 1 bloor residents take transit occasionally.
Plus, the building is hideous: another "junky corner" to replace the old "junky corner." The proposed design is vulgar and belongs at Y+Finch if anywhere.
Plus, the building is hideous: another "junky corner" to replace the old "junky corner." The proposed design is vulgar and belongs at Y+Finch if anywhere.
syn
Senior Member
You'd be surprised. The subway isn't just for the poor and middle class...at that intersection I could see people in those units using the subway.
It will also have a hotel, so that's something else to consider.
casaguy
Senior Member
Just because someone is living in a $300,000-$500,000 condo does not mean they are rich and must ride their SUV everywhere.
Unless they work out in the suburbs, I have a hard time believing that a majority of future residents would choose to contend with rush hour traffic and crazy parking charges when they can just jump on the subway and possibly even transfer to a streetcar to get to their downtown workplace.
Eastside
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I am terrified that they are going to kick these "junky" tenants out and demolish the buildings only to have an empty, boarded up lot sit untouched for years (decades?) when they have trouble selling such a massive project. This has the potential to make the legendary Metropolis hoarding seem like a piece of public art if the condo market goes south.
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