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No kidding wow. Who in the world would want the second bathroom over a living room that is big enough to use. Really, 2 bathrooms in 600sqft?!

This is complete speculation. The supercolumns will ultimately hold all the floors so no internal support columns are needed. However during construction and while diagonal support trusses (for lack of knowing proper vocabulary) are built the floors need to be supported by temporary columns...

Why is this development taking so long to materialize? We all know demand is there. The planning of this is going on a decade now.

You think it's bad now wait 30+ years when the newness and shine has worn off. We'll be left with towers with rust stains, grit and aged concrete. Think 1960s apartment towers that are 50 stories tall, below. Hopefully I'm wrong.

I don't live in CityPlace but why in the world would anyone drive though CityPlace voluntarily. Turning onto Spadina can take longer than some people's entire commute.

I'm not trolling. I could also accuse you of being willfully ignorant to how the approval process actually/could work. Anyway, I'm out. The 'troll' is tired of being targeted by an UT "employee" and "Superstar".

"The rental tenancy, street-level retail, and parking garage configuration were hailed as significant positives." This isn't the greatest reference but I found it after 2 minutes and it is just one of many instances where the DRP specifically expressed rental being a pro and obviosuly being...

Correct, technically "tenure" isn't part of the zoning amendment but tenure is essential to the "zoning process"! Zoning Amendment approval is a pretty subjective process (on the city's side at least) and the city decides whether to support a project based on the Design Review Panel's...

The rental vs strata question was part of the zoning amendment approval, public consultation and planning process in general. There is no changing this now without significant bureaucracy. In short, the project is ~800 rental units, no condos. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't have even a basic...

Forms, unbelievable. It only took 2.5 years?! If this project progressed any slower Union Station would be jealous.

I couldn't agree more. Honestly I could download a picture from a year ago, upload it and say it was from yesterday and almost no one would notice. Large crane, larger crawler crane, large round casing pipe, hole, occasional rebar cage and repeat. haha.

That slab looks large enough to support the CN Tower.

Not mentioned they currently have a lot of construction on their books and prices have plateaued if not contracted in the last 6 to 12 months. I see them sitting and waiting at least a year.

Does anyone know what's happening with the dilapidated house between new development and the beer store? I asked this a couple years ago and was told it would be torn down but would act as a construction office for now. It seems to have a fresh coat of paint. Implies it's here to stay as an eye...

It must take decades of harsh critique at a post secondary level to be able to design something so bland. I mean really, how boring and sad of a person do you have to be to draw something like that considering the 100s of millions being spent here.

I have no first hand experience in condo development but even if the developer folds this project is too far along to remain unbuilt. Someone will buy the remains, pennies on the dollar, sell the units again and take a second shot at it. Of course that would delay things for years. I don't think...

No wonder these units cost millions. It's going to take them two years from the start of shoring to the time they pour concrete for the first basement floor. I think it was the summer before last when they started shoring? I guess the small site and unique structure really eat into the...

I wonder what kind of breakdown would require most the crane to be dismantled? I asume it was something structural, mechanical and electrical components could be replaced on site I assume.

$1400 would require a substantial shift in the characteristics of the greater real estate market. At a minimum you would need to see significant appreciation in the detached, semis and towns market, otherwise the spread between owning land and a box in the sky is reduced even further than it...

You do realize the new store is about 300m from the old store and now located on one of the prime shopping streets in TO right? Not to mention you have to lose a lot of $10 impulse purchase water bottles to recoup the 10s of millions they made on this land trade.