Toronto CIBC SQUARE | 241.39m | 50s | Hines | WilkinsonEyre

  • Thread starter Suicidal Gingerbread Man
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Night shots on October 26, 2022:

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I assume they are cutting the deck back to the recently poured column next weekend.
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It appears the west wall will come down at some point based on the new rendering
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The louvers were in rough shape very soon after installation a few years back. Poor factory paint job.
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looks like they are about half-way through the cut back. From what I recall they will be cutting it back by 3 central support columns. Looking forward to seeing how it opens up Yonge St and makes the underpass feel a lot less like a barrier.
Don't forget they may be cutting away a section of the old bridge but they will then add a new pedestrian walkway.
 
Lets have an aerial look at this area to inform the discussion:

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Of the ~97M noted above, roughly 78M is under the active rail corridor. So what is being removed is ~19M which appears green in the above image.

We'll have to go back and look at the bridge specs to see how wide the new bridge will be, I imagine it will be less than 19M wide, but what remains by way of an underpass, even w/o the new bridge is
substantial at about 80% of what's there now, add back a pedestrian bridge, and this will be a fairly modest reduction in length.
 
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...so they're removing what used to be a part of something that's no longer there I gather.
The north section of the Yonge St bridge used to have rail tracks leading into the freight building just south of the Customs House - where CIBC part 2 is being built. This building was demolished and these tracks were removed many years ago.
 
...so they're removing what used to be a part of something that's no longer there I gather.

Correct: I have selected an aerial pic from 1989 below: (which I have marked to show what is now being removed)

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The section east of this (arrow) was where the tracks met the main rail corridor.

This was removed to make way for the condo now situated here.

The section to the west served the CP Express Building which was demolished to make way for the previous GO Bus Terminal.
 
As I've indicated a multitude of pages back, that I used to remember some sorta parking lot thingy before GO moved in, as I used to cut through there a few times...but never had scope of the scale of what was above. So thanks for refreshing my memory of this once again. /bows
 
You do realise that there is a railway on top of it? Nobody is going to excavate new stores.
Railways overhead don't stop other countries from doing it. I think it'd be nice if there were a series of small shallow storefronts either directly under the bridge (facing east), and/or along the blank walls that face north and south just out from under the bridge.
 

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