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2007 Predict the Year Competition

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Inevitably, it had to happen, and a new year brings about new thoughts about what might happen in our fair burg. Here's your chance to show gbelan that he was only lucky in winning last year, and that YOU, know more and can predict better than anyone else. Be careful, our questions are different this year from last.

1) Biggest completely new announced building downtown (where? what?)
2) Biggest completely new announced building outside the former City of Toronto (what? in North York? Pickering?)
3) Biggest project that dies completely in 2007.
4) Biggest transportation announcement of the year.
5) Most significant outdoor improvement (parks, etc.) that actually begins work in 2007.

Bonus question:

6) By the end of 2007, a condominium called _________ will be being sold in the GTA.

Announcement about winners will be made as 2008 approaches.
 
1) 1 Bloor East will reappear as a completely new, mixed-use tower.

The official announcement of the re-cladding of 2 Bloor West and the redevelopment of Cumberland Terrace will be made next year as well.

Also, I expect that phase 2 of MaRS will be larger than initially panned in order to accommodate the new health agency the province is planning to establish.

2) A new tallest for NYCC will be announced for the NW or SW corner of Yonge and Sheppard. I’ll say a mixed-use tower with a significant office component that will be slightly taller than the Kirkor project on the SE corner we found out about recently. The Kirkor project will also be officially announced next year.

Also, an announcement will be made regarding the fate of the huge field to the north of what will be Downtown Markham (SE corner of Highway 7 and Warden). Nothing tall, but expect something significant and dense by 905 standards.

The following projects will enter sales (among many others): Hummingbird, One City Hall part 2 (the tower), Metrogate and “CityPlace North.â€

3) The Front Street extension will die.

Other projects that will die, at least in their current form: Sapphire (Stinson will change his mind again) and the Nathan Phillips Square redevelopment (cancelled due to predictable city hall mismanagement or corruption).

If Metronome is reborn, it will promptly be killed again.

4) Federal funding for the York/Sorbara Line will be announced and the project will move ahead (slowly).

An Eglinton LRT will also come closer to reality, but it won’t get off the ground in 2007.

The rumour regarding GO buying old O-Trains for the Stouffville line will turn out to be true, but little progress will be made after the announcement.

5) Surprising progress will be made on Commissioners Park in 2007.

Also, Downsview Park will start to look more like, well, a park. I understand work is underway now, so this doesn’t count as a prediction, but people will actually start to take notice of this project next year.

6) The Auspicious Tower

(Edited because I forgot the bonus question.)
 
#1. Biggest re-submitted building will be Signature at around the same height as Aura is approved at. Biggest completely new proposal is going to be X-Condos phase 2 in the old Pizza Pizza lot just south of the first phase at somewhere around 65 storeys.

#2. New hotel in Niagara Falls. In the GTA? A condo at Eglinton and Yonge. Touch shorter than Quantum North. City of Toronto turns down the application.

#3. Bay-Adelaide tenants pull out. Stump II is nearly double the height of the old stump.

#4. Federal Liberals, under Dion's environmental plan during the next Federal election, promise a massive ($1 to 2 B per year) investment into public transit capital expansion country wide pending provincial buy-in and matching funds.

#5. I'm going with the new street furniture. Not the biggest budget but it will have a big impact on the day to day in the long run.

#6. Lust
 
1)700 ft. mixed use project on the parking lot east of the ACC.

2)A 600 ft. condo proposed in Mississauga City Centre.

3)Trump dies and sapphire is re-designed and marketed towards young professionals.

4)The subway to York University gets funding from all levels of government and construction is expected to begin in early 2008.

5)Redevelopment of the Bloor St. corridor begins.

6)The Bayside
 
like i said after winning 2006 - i shall repeat ,so the champ says:

1.parking lot east of mls will be proposed by cf and lanterra
bonus-torch is re proposed into a spectacular entertainment
project that it sadly should have been in the first place

2.missisaugas next 50 storey tower is revealed at its massive
parkside village site

3.canadian music hall of fame is officially gone from metropolis and starts looking for a new site

4.redo of union station is fastracked.millers way of fixing gaffes from last term.blue 22 is back on the table as well

5.bloor st revitallization begins or walk of fame park at metro centre

6.the "addisson" is the name for murano 3.:lol ryhmes with raddisson :b a new condo is proposed for planiterium site called " liquid" becoming a new neighbour to the crystal
 
6. Serendipity
1. Dundas Square (condo/retail/hotel)
5. Canada Square
3. Fairfax Condominium (in other words - none)
4. Dufferin Jog
2. Mississauga City Centre
 
1) Biggest completely new announced building downtown (where? what?)

New Residential Project Near RoCP (not RoCP III/Aura)

Bonus Answer: "Big" new announced building downtown will be a cultural facility, perhaps a museum or aquarium.

2) Biggest completely new announced building outside the former City of Toronto (what? in North York? Pickering?)

Gotta go with MCC. A new tall residential tower inspired by the success of Absolute.

3) Biggest project that dies completely in 2007.

City Centre Tower [Hummingbird Centre]

4) Biggest transportation announcement of the year.

Funding (probably partial) for a series of Streetcar tracks in Scarborough.

5) Most significant outdoor improvement (parks, etc.) that actually begins work in 2007.

Replacement of the current MegaBins. It'll be a city-wide change.

Bonus question:

6) By the end of 2007, a condominium called _________ will be being sold in the GTA.

Toronto.
 
1) 40'ish storey mixed-use building at Victoria/Dundas, on the site of the Hakim Optical and the small office building beside it.

2) a 40'ish storey condo in Scarborough City Centre

3) Trump

4) Eglinton LRT

5) Don mouth renaturalization

6) York
 
1) City Hall mysteriously falls down and a new international competition gets announced. The new proposal fits the TO theme and resembles a 60s toilet, with a facade worst than, well, the entire subway system

2) Mississauga- Daniel's next phase (after Chicago), is a 500 foot Empire State Building replicate but they don't cheap out, like in NYCC, in order to compete with the new architectural standards that will make MCC the next Dubai/HK (well, the good buildings there)

3) Trump and Parkside Village

4) Mississauga Transitway gets cancelled and replaced by a brand new LRT network that connects MCC to the Airport and Kipling, that then gets cancelled in '08 and becomes a Maglev and subway system that later goes on to stretches across all of Mississauga, which will eventually spur a office boom in '09 that makes MCC the undisputed commerical hub of the Region

5) Zanta gets a shirt

6) Emerald
 
1) Biggest completely new announced building downtown (where? what?)

Manulife Tower across Bay from the ACC (or maybe they'll be Tower 3 at BCE, or maybe they'll go for the Concourse Bldg redevelopment.)

2) Biggest completely new announced building outside the former City of Toronto (what? in North York? Pickering?)

Daniels releases their next Square One area condo project, and it's their biggest yet, and will be the tallest building in Canada with a peaked roof.

3) Biggest project that dies completely in 2007.

The Uptown goes back to the drawing boards.

4) Biggest transportation announcement of the year.

Tories announce federal funding for the Spadina subway extension around the time the election is called.

5) Most significant outdoor improvement (parks, etc.) that actually begins work in 2007.

Lake Ontario Park

Bonus question:

6) By the end of 2007, a condominium called _________ will be being sold in the GTA.

Leather
 
1) biggest completely new building downtown...hmmm...so many parking lots...I'm going to go with something on bay. the parking lot in front of the bus terminal. condo with a nice 24 hour restaurant at the bottom. not the tallest, but definitely adds to the canyon down bay st. (I don't think there's anything proposed for that sight any way.)

2) north york. something at don mills and sheppard, by fairview mall. big ugly nasty looking condo.

3) the festival centre goes up, but the condo on top of it dies. (I really hope this doesn't happen, btw.)

4) a lane is knocked off queens quay as the waterfront revitilization continues, making many little angry rich people with big cars take to the streets, (and their balcony's,) to egg the people enjoying their walks.

5) not to be redundant, but this is going to be the year of the waterfront.

6) Wave
 
1) Tall tower talk is cheap, as Donald Trump has shown us for the last several years, so I am announcing that the mixed-use Really Big Megaplex Tower, which will be built at the north west corner of Dundas and Jarvis, will be the biggest new announced building of the year. No matter what other announcements are made this will always be the biggest. There, the announcement is made.

2) I am announcing that The Louroz - a curvaceous 150 floor municipal office building - with a cinched waist, housing a mayor-in-waiting trainee council chamber that controls access to the upper floors - will be the biggest completely new announced building outside the former City of Toronto this year. Whenever a bigger building is announced, this tower will automatically be re-announced as being bigger.

3) AquarioLuminatoMulticultiMuseumCondo will be a huge project that dies almost immediately because nobody knows what it is.

4) A huge network of new subway lines will be announced by the Provincial Government, just prior to the Ontario election campaign, with financing dependant on matching funds by the feds and the city.

5) Fiendishlibrarian begins clean up of the site in preparation for the construction of Downsview Park.

6) The Residences of Pippypoo.
 
1) Biggest completely new announced building downtown (where? what?)

Height restrictions are completely removed by the city, for the Portlands north of The Shipping Channel and west of The Don Roadway. This leads to a creation of a dramatic mixed-use cluster of the densest, highest supertalls seen in North America. The CN Tower is forced to reduce its admission price.

2) Biggest completely new announced building outside the former City of Toronto (what? in North York? Pickering?)

Pickering steals Vaughn's glory by opening the world's largest united bargain shopping centre/theme park combo on land formerly allocated for a second Toronto airport. No one is wildly interested.

3) Biggest project that dies completely in 2007.

Free-standing autonomous self-sufficient nanotech hair extensions for Mayor Miller.

4) Biggest transportation announcement of the year.

City continues to creep towards realization that something should be done with the Gardiner, funding slow to materialize: version 1000.2

5) Most significant outdoor improvement (parks, etc.) that actually begins work in 2007.

A Hustler, Drunk and Crack-Free Allan Gardens

Bonus question:

6) By the end of 2007, a condominium called L'Hypothèque Infiniewill be being sold in the GTA.
 
1) Biggest completely new announced building downtown (where? what?)

250+ metre mixed use tower announced for one of the empty parking east of Yonge and ACC. It will be rejected and reproposed at 150 metres or less as it will cast shadows on ..uh... historical hydro shed at certain time of day.

2) Biggest completely new announced building outside the former City of Toronto (what? in North York? Pickering?)

A major condo project will be announced in North York along the Shepherd line. It will be called the Taj Mahal and will have tall, graceful spires, and huge gilded onion domes. It will originally be announced at 42 and 36 stories but will be rejected and re-proposed at 28 and 18 stories with larger floor plates to make it better "fit-in" with the one storey mini-mart across the street.

3) Biggest project that dies completely in 2007.

Sapphire dies completely. Shangri-la group announces that it will be delaying plans to move ahead with project.

4) Biggest transportation announcement of the year.

Discounts to students and seniors will be discontinued, except on monthly passes. Security measures will be excuse..err... justification. TTC personel forced to wear their operator caps, except for religious or medical reasons-they threaten to strike. An announcement is made re the extension to YorkU..appeals to governemt..deaf ears...hands are tied...yada yada.

5) Most significant outdoor improvement (parks, etc.) that actually begins work in 2007.

Bloor-Yorkville area gets some stylish new street furniture. Colourful graffitti by local street 'artists' is created on the east and south facades of the Four Seasons Centre.

Bonus question:

6) By the end of 2007, a condominium called _the Bora Bora_will be being sold on the waterfront. Online reservations will begin in December to theme music of Bing Crosby's Mele Kalikimaka.

Les Lofts Parisiennes will also be announced for the Esplanade...near the spagetti house.
 
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