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Nice one, but Union Centre most likely will be the last one of the bunch to be built (2025+) Allied are not known for building tall towers and who knows?, maybe they'll just sell that over to Oxford or CF
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Nice one, but Union Centre most likely will be the last one of the bunch to be built (2025+) Allied are not known for building tall towers and who knows?, maybe they'll just sell that over to Oxford or CF
travis3000
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That is true, this proposal has been out for 4 years now and still no rumblings of anything. My bets would be on 30 Bay coming next, it's the only one with a website with a complete date (2023). CC3 is a massive project (1.8 million square feet+) and is still in the beginning stages, we just heard about in December. 160 Front has been out for a few years as well, they are actively marketing their building as well but still no success.
differential
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This project was supposed to be twin towers connected by an elevated park, is that still the plan?
Or, as I suspect, are they going to just build one of the towers and call it a day?
innsertnamehere
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Twin towers. The first one will be built with a bus terminal in the base, then they will move the current bus terminal and start the second tower in its place.
Razz
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Michael62
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After a Friday rain and filthy windows, I was able to take a couple of shots from my balcony this morning.
Westside Story: The south west corner has had a lot of action this week. They exposed the first level of the vertical wall reaching towards the top of the platform running along Bay St. All of the materials have been removed from this area between the crane base and the vertical wall, some plastic drains were installed and have been covered with small diameter gravel around the entire area. The drains run towards and into the centre section of the core which has had some black pea gravel material spread over top. The sidewalls to the ramp which will allow cars to run from P3 up to P2 has also exposed its vertical concrete walls. I'm assuming they ramp part will be constructed at a later date
Eastside Story: Still not much action in this area as the construction ramp is used to bring in materials and the area around crane 3 is used to store materials. Looking along the north wall of the excavation, there have been footings poured and crews are creating a wall of rebar just in front of the shoring wall nearest the tracks
Trackside: Lots of very noisy work with boring machines and vacuum trucks running from midnight to five in the morning every weeknight. Can't really see what is going on other than the work is covered up with steel plates before train service begins in the morning. They have also protected the tracks nearest the excavation. The protection allows trains to run normally but also allows construction vehicles to run over the tracks without doing any damage.
FloorPlate P3 from WilkinsonEyre documents Site Plan Control Application Resubmission Iva
Westside Story: The south west corner has had a lot of action this week. They exposed the first level of the vertical wall reaching towards the top of the platform running along Bay St. All of the materials have been removed from this area between the crane base and the vertical wall, some plastic drains were installed and have been covered with small diameter gravel around the entire area. The drains run towards and into the centre section of the core which has had some black pea gravel material spread over top. The sidewalls to the ramp which will allow cars to run from P3 up to P2 has also exposed its vertical concrete walls. I'm assuming they ramp part will be constructed at a later date
Eastside Story: Still not much action in this area as the construction ramp is used to bring in materials and the area around crane 3 is used to store materials. Looking along the north wall of the excavation, there have been footings poured and crews are creating a wall of rebar just in front of the shoring wall nearest the tracks
Trackside: Lots of very noisy work with boring machines and vacuum trucks running from midnight to five in the morning every weeknight. Can't really see what is going on other than the work is covered up with steel plates before train service begins in the morning. They have also protected the tracks nearest the excavation. The protection allows trains to run normally but also allows construction vehicles to run over the tracks without doing any damage.
FloorPlate P3 from WilkinsonEyre documents Site Plan Control Application Resubmission Iva
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Awesome. This is flying. And that first picture facing n/e really shows what a presence this development is going to have downtown.
Contra
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Assuming this is a steel build it should fly once they're at grade too.
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Yep, like Bay Adelaide. Went up incredibly quickly.
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pman
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I’ve noticed that steel builds are pretty common outside Canada, but aren’t used in many Toronto towers. Why are we different?
ptbotrmpfn
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That’s going to be a spectacular view in ten years or so.
innsertnamehere
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most towers in Toronto are residential, where steel makes no sense. Steel has been used in office projects, but even then it depends a lot on raw material pricing when a project goes to tender.