Toronto 217 Adelaide West | 103.5m | 23s | Humbold | Adamson

[PMT]

New docs were posted on January 17, 2024:

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[Tyrang]

It makes no sense to stick a tower here in between two towers tbh.

 

[LUVIT!]

Why not? Many cities in the world have shorter towers between taller towers.

 

[Tyrang]

Why not? Many cities in the world have shorter towers between taller towers.

I think close proximity for commercial office towers is fine. But these ones to the side are residential. Putting a building here diminishes a lot of the units in that proposal as well as the units in the right side building. No one wants to live in constant shadows. I would hate it that the handsome proposal at 100 Simcoe does not get enough pre-sales because of this.

Also, it would be really nice to have that bit of a gap to funnel people into the proposed indoor pedestrian concept at 212 King St W.

 

[Garamond]

Looks amazing! Love the curved glass

 

[artemperederii]

Looks amazing! Love the curved glass

It looks disgusting, I hope it never gets built. Let the nice towers breathe. Build park here instead

 

[AlbertC]

Site listed for sale

Humbold Properties lists majority of its GTA portfolio for sale

After listing two big assets last year, Toronto-based developer Humbold Properties has listed an additional eight properties for sale, according to a CBRE marketing brochure obtained by RENX.

renx.ca

The last of the eight properties listed by CBRE is 217 Adelaide St. W., a rectangular surface parking lot one block north from David Pecaut Square. For this site, Humbold has received Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) approval to develop a 22-storey office building with 198,954 sq. ft of space.

 

[ProjectEnd]

25 floors.

To your second point, that's exactly what Humbold want to do here. It's a bait and switch and the city are well aware of it. They are actively opposing at the OMB. I would assume Westbank and the proponent behind 100 Simcoe will appear in support of refusal as well.

Boy is that awful. And it's but a preliminary rendering.

Thank heavens this is only a land gambit...

It doesn't. They can't. This isn't a real thing.

Curves or not, this isn't a real project. It's an upzoning exercise that's been costlier and taken far longer than the proponents initially expected.

Funny to see it halved in size - getting desperate?

The question was rhetorical.

Originally proposed at 50 floors and laughed out. Taken the Board and advised that they wouldn't win. Resubmitted years later at half the height but still not respecting any side setbacks or Tall Building Guidelines. It's a land play gone expensively wrong.

This site has a story going back 20+ years with this nonsense just being the latest chapter.

It's *not* a real project.

People should not be evaluating it as if it were. It's not difficult to envision something in SketchUp, but much harder (and more expensive) to make those dreams a reality.

For crying out loud, they're depicting like 100mm slabs on the upper floors...

*Narrator*: "It won't."

Oh man, I'm so pissed this *very real proposal* is meeting the tyranny of Toronto's council. What a travesty...

Or pull this off, period...

Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure...

Shit. I invested big in this. WTF am I supposed to do?

 

[3Dementia]

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