Toronto Manulife Centre Podium and Streetscape Renewal | 9.75m | 2s | Manulife Real Estate | MdeAS Architects

Silva cells on Balmuto.
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This whole thing looks like a HUGE waste of time and money to me. They managed to spoil a rather unique building at vast cost and added a few more square meters of rentable space. I have hardly ever been there in the last decade and doubt I will be there more often now. (Though I will try out Eatily with little hope it will match its Milan version and I fear it be very expensive.)
 
DSC said:
This whole thing looks like a HUGE waste of time and money to me. They managed to spoil a rather unique building at vast cost and added a few more square meters of rentable space. I have hardly ever been there in the last decade and doubt I will be there more often now. (Though I will try out Eatily with little hope it will match its Milan version and I fear it be very expensive.)
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On the building as a whole, I agree.

I wasn't a fan of how this building met the street in the past, but thus far, I can't say the new iteration is an improvement; and in point of fact, on Bloor I think it can be fairly labelled as a deterioration.

On Eataly.......for better or worse, this will be a somewhat different version with the Weston family being the partners here.

Eataly will have access to the Weston supply chain, which for some items, should lower their costs. The temptation, of course, will be to water-down the Eataly concept, something I hope they don't do.

Since the intent is retail and a possible expansion of Bloor St. Market here, it will be interesting to see how the Westons openly (or not so openly) tried to tie together Eataly w/BSM and Holts.
 
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