gristle
Senior Member
If there is a change in government I'll bet this gets shelved.
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Ont Gov't building at 880 Bay, at Grosvenor St (ORC, 44s?, WZMH)
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confusion
Active Member
Then again, as it's stated in the Toronto Accomodation Plan for the Ontario Government, there is a lot of office space that is currently leased and the amount of space needed is projected to grow. Long term this could lead to significant savings.
buildup
Senior Member
presumably the purpose of the project was to save money long-term by consolidating into one building. Maybe they can sell off some of the previous real estate assuming they owned.
Automation Gallery
Superstar
Hahaha.. damn those conservatives, they are shelving everything and taking us back into the ice age.
urbandreamer
recession proof
I hope it gets cancelled--design is hideously dull! (Like Dalton McSquinty.) Need to rethink the plan here.
ProjectEnd
Superstar
Agreed. Building for the sake of building, or building to fulfill the fantasies of a few keyboard-jockeying skyscraper fanatics isn't what's best for the city. Especially when the final design (if this is indeed it - Peter would be doing the subterranean spin were he to see what the firm has devolved to - boo WZMH) looks worse than the massing studies from an earlier date.
khris
Senior Member
I thought this one was one of those towers that looks like it had been cut and then repositioned? They completely changed the design.
Khristopher, you're referring to the images below, of course. Those came from initial massing studies that &Co where contracted to do.
It seems that &Co were not contracted to push the design further.
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It seems that &Co were not contracted to push the design further.
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Ramako
Moderator
The earlier design you're thinking of was never a real proposal; it was merely a conceptual rendering. The line drawing for the current design proposal has been out for months. The link is somewhere in this thread.
Automation Gallery
Superstar
My understanding is that the Ontario government owns that big lot at Yonge and Wellesley..why not build this tower a bit taller say 60 storeys at that location, and unload the existing block with those four derlict buildings to a condo developer.
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Superstar
Don't even bother.
Automation Gallery
Superstar
Yeah i understand
but i still say that block needs an injection of something to bring it back to life.
confusion
Active Member
No proof that this is in fact true, but in my condo meeting we were told that Morguard has sold the property and it is falling into the hands of the City. There is some legal entanglings because the remaining buildings Morguard was supposed to build are not complete and are never going to be complete. This complicates the "shared elements" plan that was intended for all of the buildings.
CDL.TO
Moderator
About half that empty lot is, in fact, currently owned by the province.