innsertnamehere
Superstar
yep, this building is no longer of this world:
Toronto Bay Adelaide Centre | 217.92m | 51s | Brookfield | KPMB
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AHK
Senior Member
Construction trailers arriving now:
Looking at the two photos - this one from Rapter on January 3rd shows the trailers on the street, with an empty plaza on the north side of Temperance, where the trailers were subsequently moved. In the picture from this morning - the formerly empty area looks to be filled with what looks to be a one storey building - is today's snowfall creating an illusion, the trailers are still there but looking like a building - or have they actually gone?
Mo-tage
Active Member
Looks like one of those prefab buildings where they group together a few single wide trailer offices.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
well they will have LOTS of staging room for this project, a stark difference to Trump across the street.
Sure looks like the trailers have been moved off the street. That's where they were for the first phase of the project.
AHK
Senior Member
Six of the portable Atco construction trailers have been lined up North/South adjacent to each other, and stitched together to make one structure, on the west and central portions of the previously empty area north of Temperance. A seventh Atco trailer is also there, not attached to the others, on the East side of the area.
A side note - when Bay Adelaide West Tower was built, the main staging area was between Adelaide and Temperance, just to the East of the tower then being built - the entire area from Bay to the back of the buildings on the west side of Yonge was zoned off. Some of the area north of Temperance may have been used as well - possibly for construction trailers - I do not recall. Why I remember the staging area is each time when passing by, noting the contrast between the Bay Adelaide project, which had such a huge staging area, and other projects, such as the Trump building across the road, and other lot line to lot line projects, with their virtually non-existent staging areas.
philofra
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androiduk
Senior Member
Application: Building Additions/Alterations Status: Not Started
Location: 118 YONGE ST
TORONTO ON M5C 1X3
Ward 28: Toronto Centre-Rosedale
Application#: 13 112909 BLD 00 BA Accepted Date: Jan 29, 2013
Project: Office Multiple Projects
Description: Proposal for relocating, restoring, and re-cladding the facade from 2 Adelaide St W to 132 Yonge St and interior renovation to 132 Yonge St and 22 Adelaide St W. Relocation of generator. See related permit 13-104149.
Location: 118 YONGE ST
TORONTO ON M5C 1X3
Ward 28: Toronto Centre-Rosedale
Application#: 13 112909 BLD 00 BA Accepted Date: Jan 29, 2013
Project: Office Multiple Projects
Description: Proposal for relocating, restoring, and re-cladding the facade from 2 Adelaide St W to 132 Yonge St and interior renovation to 132 Yonge St and 22 Adelaide St W. Relocation of generator. See related permit 13-104149.
Ramako
Moderator
Well that confirms it. Good to hear that the heritage facade will live on. In a few years the entrance to Temperance off Yonge will be pretty charming.
johnwood
Active Member
too bad this tower wasn't 60 + stories because then it would actually be exciting. why are all the office towers in toronto being built so short. cmon there must of been like 4-5 office towers built in the last 3-5 years, couldn't they just join forces and build a monster that all torontonians could be proud of? 
rpeters
Active Member
You should watch Dragon's Den, it's all about MONEY. tall buildings cost exponentially more, and Canadian businesses sold their pride a long time a go to China and the U.S.
Automation Gallery
Superstar
Hmmm, The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan which owns Cadillac Fairview Corp. and everything else has over 100 billion bucks of assets, dont tell me if they wanted to build big and tall they couldnt.... because of the MONEY.
Same can be said for Omers (Oxford Properties), and Brookfield Office Properties, which are both building big in New York City.
It is strange why we are not getting a tall one from one of those companys above.
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innsertnamehere
Superstar
We do have Oxford place, as well as rumours for a 2 million square foot office building at 45 bay.
Quite frankly, the reason we aren't building big towers is because we don't have any big tenants to anchor them. To anchor a 2 million square foot building, you need 6-700,000 square feet under the anchor Tenant, while most anchor tenants are 3-400,000 square feet. Thus the smaller buildings.
Quite frankly, the reason we aren't building big towers is because we don't have any big tenants to anchor them. To anchor a 2 million square foot building, you need 6-700,000 square feet under the anchor Tenant, while most anchor tenants are 3-400,000 square feet. Thus the smaller buildings.
DtTO
Active Member
And yet we have millions of sq ft of office space in the GTA, outside the 416. Hopefully, the condo boom will see more of those relocate downtown in the upcoming years.
blacktrojan3921
New Member
Happy to see this building finally starting construction.