In regards to the economics, you can't go high-end with everything in Yorkville and have all of the buildings sell. Right now I'm scratching my head wondering how they're going to sell all the suites in Bay + Scollard, 100 Davenport, 128 Hazelton, and The One. That's a ton of high end suites coming onto the market over the next few years, and while the three buildings in the north end of Yorkville will make for the perfect homes for downsizers, the massively large The One will be competing for pretty much the same demographic as Mirvish + Gehry a couple of kilometres away will also be going for; not so many downsizers, more younger but rich professionals.
It's the upper end of the market where Toronto has unsold housing stock, while it's the smaller units that all sell. That's the market 8 Cumberland is going after, and they're trying to add some interesting detail at ground level, and 3/5ths of the way up the building again, but otherwise they're trying to keep costs reasonable here because they aren't adding yet more product to the highly competitive high-end.
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