East Bayfront: Bayside (Waterfront Toronto/Hines/Tridel, Pelli Clark Pelli et al)

[DSC]

My dog will be happy to have the walkway along the water extended further to the East.

Yes, phase 1 will take it from Sherbourne Common South to the new extension of Bonnycastle Street. This ought to e done by 2017. The second phase, to Parliament, will not be done until all of the Hines property gets developed. I fear your dog will not live long enough to see it!

 

[rdaner]

Is there a possibility that Cisco's new hq will land somewhere here?

 

[innsertnamehere]

What would certainly be nice, but for some reason I have a feeling it will be in Kitchener-Waterloo.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

The Cisco Canada HQ is at BCE place - and it has been reported most of the hiring will be in Ottawa and TO (not KW, though that's what I thought at first too)

AoD

 

[Southcore]

Yeah Cisco is in Brookfield right now. But I heard from someone working there that they might be going to the new RBC at York/Harbour. Also in the promotional material made by Menkes for Harbour Plaza there is mention of that RBC building with RBC and Cisco as the two tenants.

Even if they don't land there I can't seem them coming to Bayside when there is still 16 York, 43 Simcoe/156 Front, 171 Front available

 

[taal]

I can confirm they are moving to RBC place (over 100K worth of space) - hence that building is nearly full.

 

[Razz]

A bitterly cold start to the new year. Taken on Juary 3, 2014:

 

[Razz]

The Hines-Tridel lands from Parliament Slip to Sherbourne Common. Taken March 3, 2014:

 

[Miscreant]

I'm sure this has been discussed at length, but would anyone mind filling me in on public transit on QQ that would service this development? I mean, I'm assuming that it wouldn't be going ahead without virtually finalized plans to get a TTC line out here, but I also remember hearing that the status of that transit connection was in question.

So what's the deal? Are TTC plans to service this area definitely going ahead? A continuation of the QQ west street car, or what?

 

[innsertnamehere]

no money for it, its a $300+ million dollar project as it requires the reconstruction and expansion of the Union Station streetcar loop, which costs a ton of money.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

Thoughts on the shortlist of names for the new street here?

I voted for Azure Dr.

Disappointed that my suggestion of Admiralty Drive (named after Lake Admiralty) didn't make the shortlist.

 

[salsa]

Disappointed that many of the names end in 'Drive', 'Way', or 'Cres'. Is this suburbia or something? Why don't they call it a street?

 

[Miscreant]

no money for it, its a $300+ million dollar project as it requires the reconstruction and expansion of the Union Station streetcar loop, which costs a ton of money.

Huh, interesting. So they're going ahead wit this development despite not direct transit connections, eh? Hmm. Odd...I just don't see how that can ultimately work.

 

[Red October]

The name "Merchant's Wharf" is good, but better for an area as opposed to wasting it on a non-significant street.

 

[DSC]

Huh, interesting. So they're going ahead wit this development despite not direct transit connections, eh? Hmm. Odd...I just don't see how that can ultimately work.

Apparently the developers (both Bayside and Monde) and WT are still working with the City to get the LRT built as it would clearly make residential sales much easier and move the office tower part ahead too. Corus runs shuttle buses and the TTC has extended the #6 Bay bus but that really does not cut it. The WT slogan "transit first' may just have been a slogan....