Toronto Waterlink at Pier 27 | 43.89m | 14s | Cityzen | a—A

[UrbanAffair]

Is this thread yet split in to phase one and 2? If not, now's the time...

 

[interchange42]

The split is not going to happen unless the new buildings are branded very distinctly from the original ones. Many people have a hard time getting their heads around what should be posted where whenever there is any perceived ambiguity about multi-phase projects, and moderators did not sign up to spend their lives moving miss-posts from the wrong thread to the right thread.

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[SP!RE]

Waterlink is the name of Phase 1, no? So to be all-encompassing of the different phases, this thread should logically be called Pier 27, not "Waterlink".

 

[interchange42]

Probably! As soon as the next phase goes into marketing (and gets named), we'll make the appropriate changes!

 

[AlbertC]

Update from Cityzen Group's Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/CityzenGroup

January 30, 2012.

 

[Miscreant]

It seems to me this one has been so slow, but it does seem to have picked up in the last 4-6 weeks.

 

[AlbertC]

February 8, 2012.

 

[drum118]

Feb 16

 

[guitarchitect]

ah, this is great to see! this building was one of my babies when I worked at aA. The reason it might be going a bit slowly is because of scheduling needs in the construction - there was a requirement that a sound attenuation / view-blocking wall had to be built at the side of the site bordering the redpath lands, and it had to be complete before any construction/occupation of the site could happen. Our strategy was to put a single-loaded corridor building on that side of the site rather than just a freestanding wall... which explains, partly, why that building is so far ahead and why other parts of the site might have been slow to start up. I can't *wait* to see the big truss structures go up

 

[gristle]

I can't *wait* to see the big truss structures go up

A lot of us can't wait for that!

 

[Xray_Crystal_Junkie]

there was a requirement that a sound attenuation / view-blocking wall had to be built at the side of the site bordering the redpath lands, and it had to be complete before any construction/occupation of the site could happen.

Before even construction workers could occupy the site? I find this really curious, could you explain further?

 

[dcc008]

these guys are going to be topping off soon...passed by and they're on the 10th floor of the waterlink phase...don't know where this impression of "slow-moving" comes from lol there will be structural steel in the air before you know it

 

[guitarchitect]

Before even construction workers could occupy the site? I find this really curious, could you explain further?

I don't recall the specifics - I'm sure they were allowed to have workers on site, but there could be no option for one of the more central buildings to be completed first. For that perimeter building there had to be measures in place such that there wasn't a direct sightline from it into the grounds... IE, even people on the top floor facing south had to be prevented from seeing onto the refinery's property.

 

[Tulse]

even people on the top floor facing south had to be prevented from seeing onto the refinery's property.

Was that a request/demand by Redpath, or by the condo developer? If the former, why -- for security reasons?

I think it would actually be pretty cool to have a view of a working industrial site like that. (After all, that's kinda what Sugar Beach is, right?)

 

[DSC]

Probably both Redpath and the developer wanted a good separation - I agree that looking at a working industrial site might be interesting but remember all the people who buy near airports who then decide the noise is excessive and want the airport closed. Probably simplest to try to segregate them.