Southcore Financial Ctr: PricewaterhouseCoopers Tower (18 York St, bcIMC, 26s, KPMB)

Anyone know what's going on with the lot to the immediate west of 18 York?

Oh, and thanks for that photo update!
 
^ Apparently there was a proposal for a hotel on the site. Haven't heard anything for quite a while, though.
 
I remember reading the developer applying to the CofA for additional parking. Just over 250 spaces which is considerable for a building of its size.

P.S. First Canadian Place's pit wouldn't be any deeper if you removed the tower and the retail concourse level.
 
Mongo said:
^ Apparently there was a proposal for a hotel on the site. Haven't heard anything for quite a while, though.
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Here is something from the City of Toronto staff report.

North: Bremner Boulevard, beyond which is Block 7 in the Railway Lands East, 18 York
Street, which is zoned CR Block 7 and permits a 137-metre high mixed use
development in two high-rise buildings; these sites are subject to an application
for site plan approval for a 26-storey, 114-metre high, and 57,846 square metre
office building on the east part (file 06 162121 STE 20 SA) and approved Official
Plan and Zoning By-law amendments application for a 37-storey, 137-metre high,
and 74,135 square metre hotel/residential development (file 100021 (TO ZBL
2000 0017), and beyond is the railway;
 
Automation Gallery said:
these sites are subject to an application for site plan approval for a 26-storey, 114-metre high, and 57,846 square metre office building on the east part (file 06 162121 STE 20 SA) and approved Official Plan and Zoning By-law amendments application for a 37-storey, 137-metre high, and 74,135 square metre hotel/residential development (file 100021 (TO ZBL 2000 0017), and beyond is the railway;
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The first building above is 18 York, a substantial building on its own right, but the second building, proposed as hotel/residential, would have almost the same average floor plate (about 10% less) and be 20% taller! Wow. And the Manhattanization of Bremner continues (assuming that this gets built).
 
The hotel plan is nearly ten years and two ownership groups past. I wouldn't count on it.
 
It might be better to have a commercial building instead? There's already a hotel at MLS and Royal York just north of the rails.
 
And even closer still there's the Intercontinental at Simcoe/Front, and the SkyDome hotel a bit further west.
 
grey said:
PATH space! This would be a great benefit to pedestrians, especially during winter.
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18 York's PATH connection will be over York Street and into Telus, not under it, so no PATH level below unless there's a future below-ground connection to Ãce.

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There will be a path under the rails to the new union station beside Telus. I don't know if maybe they will connect that with Telus.
 
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AKS said:
There will be a path under the rails to the new union station beside Telus. I don't know if maybe they will connect that with Telus.
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The connection to Telus will go over York street. Connections to Union Station from both 18 York and Telus will go north under the tracks only.

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