Bay Adelaide Centre West Tower (Brookfield, 50s, WZMH)

[CanadianNational]

Re: A Snap from Today Bay Adelaide

Hmmm....since there's not much going immediately above the area around the core they're excavating, I wonder if they could open PATH (even a rough cut) - right through to The Bay store soon, instead of waiting for a lot of the BA complex to be finished?

 

[Mike in TO]

Re: A Snap from Today Bay Adelaide

FM,

The Cloud Garden Park was part of the original BA agreement. Although there maybe some other section 37 agreements contained in the planning approval documents.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Re: A Snap from Today Bay Adelaide

Not much - I've re-read the final report and there isn't much other than by preserving the facade of the hertiage structure and the usual LEED stuff.

AoD

 

[Sir Novelty Fashion]

Re: A Snap from Today Bay Adelaide

I wonder if they could open PATH (even a rough cut) - right through to The Bay store soon

Well, by the looks of things, that rough cut has been there all along - that's what they just exposed. I wonder if there was some locked underground door in the Bay or Scotiabank that led into the stump, the whole time?

 

[EnviroTO]

Re: A Snap from Today Bay Adelaide

Or maybe the tunnel to Scotiabank was the part never built.

 

[andreapalladio]

Re: A Snap from Today Bay Adelaide

You could always get to the parking lot through the Bay - the Thomsons owned the Bay and Bay Adelaide when it was first planned, so the connection to the Bay was opened in the early '90s.

The connection to Scotia will go through the store that is to the right of Winners as you look north in the lower level - it's been a Coles Bookstore and then one of those faux-french cookie places, I don't know what it is now - but don't count on it opening any time soon. The connection betwen Scotia and Commerce Court wasn't opened until 1995 or so - until then, people used their subway passes to walk through the station to get between them underground.

 

[adma]

Re: A Snap from Today Bay Adelaide

Or went the other way, via FCP/TD.

 

[andreapalladio]

Re: A Snap from Today Bay Adelaide

That took too long.

 

[adma]

Re: A Snap from Today Bay Adelaide

Depends what end--from the Scotia food court, it'd definitely be the subway; from the Scotia tower lobby, FCP/TD might suffice...

 

[superdeduperawesome]

Re: Photos 11/03/07

I was at the Rally for Kyoto event today at Nathan Phillips and randomly decided to go down to the BA Centre. I had my 70-300 lens on me and no other, so the pictures are close up.

Looks like they're assembling the crane! But does this make sense?

 

[Ed007Toronto]

Re: Photos 11/03/07

I spoke to someone working on the crane equipment today as they had Adelaide closed between Bay and Yonge. Said it had something to do with the Scotiatower and not B/A. Who knows.

 

[DaninToronto2]

Re: Photos 11/03/07

Hmm... Height increase?

 

[ganjavih]

Re: Photos 11/03/07

The BA site has a creepy WTC feel to it... esp. at night.

 

[building babel]

Re: Photos 11/03/07

Ben, the manager at Nicholas Ho, recently told me he's opening a bookstore somewhere on Bay near there; It'll be more word-oriented than the picture book palace he now runs.

 

[Bogtrotter]

Re: Photos 11/03/07

Nice to hear, anything more scholarly than indigo is always good. I think there's a niche in TO now for intelligent bookstores- at least I'm hoping.