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CityPlace: potential tower sw corner of Spadina & Front

Good find.

They also included a small building where the buses at Roger's Centre park.

Wasn't that originally supposed to be a building for the elderly? I don't recall if the City had wanted Concord/Adex to build it or if it was going to be someone else doing it.
 
Quick mashup with most recent Bing birds eye imagery
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thanks 299bcc ... nice work ~ don't forget Luna + Montage + Parade East though which are now built ~ =D
 
The site in question has significant issues with the rail right-of-way nad it's highly unlikely anything of consequence will be built there for a while. Concord is having enough difficulty with the other stakeholders involved getting their pedestrain bridge approved and constucted - which is small potatoes compared to a large building.
 
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The reason it was cancel as GO did their expansion of the yard and power plant there.
 
Cancelled isn't really a good word here. The tower was never marketed and never even designed. It appears in a couple preliminary concept renderings and nothing more.
 
Scuttled sounds like there was a cabal who manipulated backroom politics to enforce their will over a protesting populace. To the barricades!
 
Yes, I vote for "scupper."



Someone should start a Scupper Club - for all those dinners that never happened.
 
scuttle 3 |ˈskədl| |ˈskʌt(ə)l|
verb [ trans. ]
sink (one's own ship) deliberately by holing it or opening its seacocks to let water in.
• deliberately cause (a scheme) to fail : some of the stockholders are threatening to scuttle the deal.

or

scupper 2 |ˈskəpər| |ˈskʌpə|
verb [ trans. ] chiefly Brit.
sink (a ship or its crew) deliberately.
• informal prevent from working or succeeding; thwart : plans for a casino were scuppered by a public inquiry.
ORIGIN late 19th cent. (as military slang in the sense [kill, esp. in an ambush] ): of unknown origin. The sense [sink] dates from the 1970s.


they both seem equally good to me. maybe rotate the title on a monthly basis?

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