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

[JasonParis]

I can confirm that the TD Terrace lobby and PATH connection to Simcoe Place have now been open about a week.

 

[mburrrrr]

You can walk there from Union Station now.

From the Pathmap app

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

...I think folks would be looking for something a little more direct though. >.<

 

[C-mac]

...I think folks would be looking for something a little more direct though. >.<

yeah I can't imagine anyone coming from you Union taking that route no matter how bad the weather is....lol.

 

[evandyk]

From the end of the covered arcade at Citigroup Place, it's probably less than 50 metres away if you need to dash across Front St in the rain. Definitely not worth circumnavigating Roy Thomson Hall.

 

[GenerationLee]

That area is definitely ideal for a new PATH connection, to bring greater connectivity to that section of the PATH. My only suggestion for the new PATH tunnel would be from the Citi building to 160 Front, but that's without knowing the PATH very well and how feasible it would be to build that.

 

[evandyk]

There's a subway line right under that, which probably complicates things.

 

[JasonParis]

You can walk there from Union Station now.
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From the Pathmap app

This does highlight a few obvious gaps in the system on the west side...

• Simcoe Place and MTCC should be connected under Front. The amount of convention goers that use this foodcourt is a prime example of why.
• TD Terrace should be connected to Citigroup Place (this would mean not having to go under the subway to get to Union)
• The Fairmont should open its already roughed-in PATH connection on its west side (at least for when that connection finally goes north as it is eventually planned to).

 

[ProjectEnd]

This does highlight a few obvious gaps in the system on the west side...

• Simcoe Place and MTCC should be connected under Front. The amount of convention goers that use this foodcourt is a prime example of why.

That would make sense, yes, but would require Oxford and Cad Fairview agreeing that it is desirable and worth the spend.

• TD Terrace should be connected to Citigroup Place (this would mean not having to go under the subway to get to Union)

Citygroup is a 'soft site'. More likely connection is to the future 20 York, but who knows if / when that could / would happen.

• The Fairmont should open its already roughed-in PATH connection on its west side (at least for when that connection finally goes north as it is eventually planned to).

That's entirely up to KingSett.

 

[GenerationLee]

There's a subway line right under that, which probably complicates things.

I should've clarified my post. I meant for a connection west to convention centre, then to cross Front to this new tower. Although I see the reasons above for why this connection hasn't been pursued yet.

 

[Red Mars]

Mar 21 and Apr 6, 2024

 

[Riseth]

April 4, 2024

 

[alklay]

The TD signage is waaaay too large.

The building would look so much better without it, regardless of the fact that its oversized.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

The TD signage is waaaay too large.

The building would look so much better without it, regardless of the fact that its oversized.

I am going to surmise that the developer and architects here probably agree with that point. But they also needed to bring home the bacon where office demand was and is all going south...so they carved off some of their souls to give the anchor client reason not to look elsewhere with that stupidly large signage. /sigh

 

[officedweller]

20 York / Union Centre is keeping the existing older building in place, I think,
so it's unlikely to have a connection to the north to 160 Front: