Toronto 160 Front West | 239.87m | 46s | Cadillac Fairview | AS + GG

isaidso said:
It looks much better from the front than the back but has been functionally obsolete (it's too small to bid on the big conventions) for decades. For me the bigger issue has been that hotel. It was blight on the city as soon as they went up.
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The Intercontinental? It is probably the least awful portion of MTCC North.

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isaidso said:
It looks much better from the front than the back but has been functionally obsolete (it's too small to bid on the big conventions) for decades. For me the bigger issue has been that hotel. It was a blight on the city as soon as it went up.
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The convention center is supposed to be redeveloped with the brand new Union Park project.
Right now it looks like it belongs in the Soviet Union in the 70s
Hopefully still happening with COVID and all
 
000 said:
I was talking generallly. Ben Myers mentioned commercial property owners could consider conversion if the office market doesn't bounce back to what it used to be. We saw this in Alberta when oil and gas companies stopped renewing leases / downsized and few tenants replaced them.
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Oh, well, if Lil' Ben said it, it must be true...

There's also bit of difference between vague, notional, 'commercial property owners' and the OTTP Goliath that is constructing a fully leased, 1.2m GLA, Class-A office tower downtown.
 
karledice said:
The convention center is supposed to be redeveloped with the brand new Union Park project.
Right now it looks like it belongs in the Soviet Union in the 70s
Hopefully still happening with COVID and all
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Union Park is one block west of the convention centre. No doubt Oxford will get around to a convention centre redevelopment proposal at some point, (replacing the one that came up when they thought they might bag a casino) and I'll assume it will include a new hall in a deck over the rail lines, but we're not there yet.

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Now above grade in some areas...

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The blue thingies seem to be rising. That is, both Jacks and Johnnies...
 
DavidCapizzano said:
Looks like a core is rising - will this be steel construction?
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You know I was thinking of the same thing because the core is moving ahead without the floor plate being done . Could it be that the level of the first floor is high and that it take time to cure while they set the first floor columns up and pore ?
 
I just noticed that Walters Group (who are fabricating the octopus 🐙connectors and other stuff for The One), is doing a bunch of the steel here as well.

"Walters’ scope of work involves the supply and erection of approximately 9500 Tons of structural steel and 1.07M square feet of Metal Deck."


Saw this render of the top on another forum from 6 years ago.

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