adma
Superstar
If you literalized the name "Thing", it'd make a nifty partner for the L Tower
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York Gardens Town Homes (346 Jarvis, 4s)
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Sir Novelty Fashion
Senior Member
Actually, it only just occurred to me that the natural counterpoint to the L Tower should have been the X Condo, if Clewes hadn't dropped the ball on its design (maybe it should have been called the 'lowercase-l Tower'?). Our nascent Alphabet District, over before it began...
rdaner
Senior Member
I wouldn't be surprised if the developers have sold the entire thing to another development company as part of a larger project. With the surrounding buildings someone with deeper pockets could certainly go higher.
jmacmillan
Active Member
I thought the "pressedboard palace" on the north side Maitland, just west of Church Street, was cheaply constucted. The Jarvis site looks cramped. really cheap and shoddily built.
BuildTO
Active Member
I like how the door in the second-last picture is not even straight.
mysteryman
Active Member
^ that makes it self-closing...maybe they could charge more.
adma
Superstar
Somehow, I feel like posting this image here
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Omigod!
Will ya look at that - "Thing" and "Lord Foppington" are waving at one another!
Separated at birth?
Will ya look at that - "Thing" and "Lord Foppington" are waving at one another!
Separated at birth?
Sir Novelty Fashion
Senior Member
Actually, detached from Lord F's arm after his untimely demise in a slap fight, and preserved in the British Museum until finding its way to that nice box.
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
So, basically, your right hand doesn't know what your left hand has been doing for the past three hundred years?
BuildTO
Active Member
"Suspicious" Fire Guts Townhomes Under Construction
I returned home (Radio City) last night at 1:30 AM to find all the streets around Jarvis/Carlton/Mutual cordoned off. There was a fire at some townhouses that was threatening the Radio City south tower (281 Mutual St.) on the south side. Residents reported flames and ashes shooting up past their windows. One resident reported that the heat melted drapes. By 1:30 the fire was out but residents of the tower were still waiting to be re-admitted.
The radio this morning reported a 3-alarm blaze which gutted three townhomes under construction. The blaze was deemed "suspicious".
I won't have time to take a look until tomorrow, but I am sure these townhomes are the ones which have created much amusement for some forum members here. I'd taken a look at them months ago and the work has been so shoddy, we were wondering what was up (I swear one of the doors was actually crooked). Never mind the fire; the whole construction project was "suspicious". In fact, when the recent news about the Jarvis Mansions debacle broke, I first assumed the news was about these townhouses.
(I tried to find a thread on the project here but can't remember if there was one or if all the memories of discussion have been from pub meets.)
I returned home (Radio City) last night at 1:30 AM to find all the streets around Jarvis/Carlton/Mutual cordoned off. There was a fire at some townhouses that was threatening the Radio City south tower (281 Mutual St.) on the south side. Residents reported flames and ashes shooting up past their windows. One resident reported that the heat melted drapes. By 1:30 the fire was out but residents of the tower were still waiting to be re-admitted.
The radio this morning reported a 3-alarm blaze which gutted three townhomes under construction. The blaze was deemed "suspicious".
I won't have time to take a look until tomorrow, but I am sure these townhomes are the ones which have created much amusement for some forum members here. I'd taken a look at them months ago and the work has been so shoddy, we were wondering what was up (I swear one of the doors was actually crooked). Never mind the fire; the whole construction project was "suspicious". In fact, when the recent news about the Jarvis Mansions debacle broke, I first assumed the news was about these townhouses.
(I tried to find a thread on the project here but can't remember if there was one or if all the memories of discussion have been from pub meets.)
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
BuildTO:
Hope everything is OK at your end. Was there any damage (real and/or cosmetic) to Radio City and the NBS right next door to the site?
The only bright side to this - there goes an eyesore...
AoD
Hope everything is OK at your end. Was there any damage (real and/or cosmetic) to Radio City and the NBS right next door to the site?
The only bright side to this - there goes an eyesore...
AoD
adma
Superstar
Strange. I was walking by them at 4:30 yesterday afternoon and pondering their jerrybuilt crapitude...
doady
Senior Member
The more new construction that is sabotaged the better.
dt_toronto_geek
Superstar
I saw this happening from my balcony, I was pretty sure it was that townhome complex -
Suspicious Fire Destroys New Downtown Townhouse Complex
Saturday November 10, 2007
A three-alarm fire that destroyed three townhouses in the downtown core is being deemed suspicious.
Firefighters were called out shortly before 1am Saturday to the Jarvis and Carlton area, where flames erupted in some townhouses that were under construction.
After crews had extinguished the fire, they moved quickly to put out some more flames that had broken out on a balcony on the ninth floor of a building directly behind the site. Luckily nobody was hurt.
Toronto Fire Div. Commander Bob O'Hallarn estimated that there were seven new units being built in the complex.
The damage is estimated to be $500,000.
Suspicious Fire Destroys New Downtown Townhouse Complex
Saturday November 10, 2007
A three-alarm fire that destroyed three townhouses in the downtown core is being deemed suspicious.
Firefighters were called out shortly before 1am Saturday to the Jarvis and Carlton area, where flames erupted in some townhouses that were under construction.
After crews had extinguished the fire, they moved quickly to put out some more flames that had broken out on a balcony on the ninth floor of a building directly behind the site. Luckily nobody was hurt.
Toronto Fire Div. Commander Bob O'Hallarn estimated that there were seven new units being built in the complex.
The damage is estimated to be $500,000.