Ont Gov't building at 880 Bay, at Grosvenor St (ORC, 44s?, WZMH)

[LNahid2000]

What is the "900 Bay renovation project" for which this lot would be the staging ground cited earlier in this string? There's no discrete entry for "900 Bay" in the Buildings forum. For those living in Toronto and have on-the-ground intel, please help an outsider. Thanks!

https://news.ontario.ca/moi/en/2016/07/ontario-renovating-key-government-buildings.html

 

[ADRM]

What is the "900 Bay renovation project" for which this lot would be the staging ground cited earlier in this string? There's no discrete entry for "900 Bay" in the Buildings forum. For those living in Toronto and have on-the-ground intel, please help an outsider. Thanks!

It refers to the big reconstruction and preservation of the MacDonald Block office complex. UT wrote about it: http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2016/07/province-announces-retrofit-macdonald-block-office-complex

 

[interchange42]

The thread for the 900 Bay renovation, is also known as the Macdonald Block Retrofit, and you can find it here.

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[stjames2queenwest]

Yesterday around 4:30 or so

 

[isaidso]

What page is the final rendering on? I went back 5 pages but didn't see it.

 

[cogito ergo]

What page is the final rendering on? I went back 5 pages but didn't see it.

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[Avenue]

My understanding is that there are no current/confirmed plans to build an office tower here. Correct?

 

[interchange42]

Correct. It's been tabled indefinitely.

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[Light]

https://news.ontario.ca/moi/en/2016/07/ontario-renovating-key-government-buildings.html

ADRM and interchange42: Thanks folks!

Wow, 50-year horizons. One can only imagine the technical advances that will become available when the MacDonald block reaches its centennial! By then it will - hopefully - have achieved heritage preservation status.

 

[isaidso]

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Thank you very much.

 

[agoraflaneur]

Reduced to rubble. From Yesterday:

 

[Edward Skira]

 

[Automation Gallery]

I think today Wynne mentioned this location for affordable housing?

 

[canarob]

I think today Wynne mentioned this location for affordable housing?

Not this parcel, it was "27 Grosvenor St.' (I think they meant 77 Grosvenor, which is the old Ontario Archives Building) and 26 Grenville St. (the old coroner's building).

 

[Avenue]

Given that the space will have to be used during the construction phases of the Macdonald Block as a staging area nothing is likely till like 2024.