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Application: Partial Permit Status: Not Started

Location: 2 STRACHAN AVE
TORONTO ON M6K 3C3

Ward 19: Trinity-Spadina

Application#: 14 255768 FND 00 PP Accepted Date: Nov 27, 2014

Project: Multiple Use/Non Residential Partial Permit - Foundation

Description: Part Permit - Proposal to construct a new 2 storey basket ball training facility with 1 level of below grade parking for the Toronto Ratptors. (The building will be built on a new address, 30 British Columbia Road).

 

[Red October]

Looks like it's the small baseball diamond beside Medieval Times.

 

[Automation Gallery]

Gee, wasn't aware they had started construction






pics taken today

 

[interchange42]

From yesterday:

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[TOareaFan]

The pace of construction on this may pick up next week...Seems there are 12 young men within the Raptors organization looking for stuff to fill their days soon.

 

[Rasho]

The pace of construction on this may pick up next week...Seems there are 12 young men within the Raptors organization looking for stuff to fill their days soon.

No way. Jonas will sit on the bench and watch Lou chuck brick after brick.

 

[Marko]

No way. Jonas will sit on the bench and watch Lou chuck brick after brick.

This site needs an And1 button.

 

[someMidTowner]

Please, let's keep this thread reserved for actual talk of the project.

And plus, we all know Lou Williams would just control all the construction machinery until the last second and then screw everything up in an attempt to be heroic.

Now no more Raps bashing, and back to talk about the project!

 

[egotrippin]

Good thing it's progressing quickly, they desperately need some practice after that sweep!

 

[someMidTowner]

Good thing it's progressing quickly, they desperately need some practice after that sweep!

The gyms will have "it factor" machines.

Ok seriously, I need to restrain myself now.

 

[interchange42]

A few shots from yesterday are included in a front page story here, but this is the full set of up-to-date construction shots, starting from the southwest corner at Lake Shore and British Columbia, and gradually circling around:

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[ChesterCopperpot]

To be named the BioSteel Centre

http://www.thescore.com/nba/news/880379

 

[salsa]

It looks like something that belongs to a 905 business park.

 

[Amare]

MLSE loves to cheap out on things these days. Maple Leaf Square, BMO field, and Biosteel Centre; the trifecta of cheapening. It's funny how they ask for city money and benefits, and they give us designs like those three in return.

Luckily the ACC was built in the era before the cheapening took place.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Indeed - compare and contrast this and the Boulevard Club addition by Teeple. The architecture of the training plex kind of resembles the performance of the team, I suppose.

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