Toronto Manulife Centre Podium and Streetscape Renewal | 9.75m | 2s | Manulife Real Estate | MdeAS Architects

[Benito]

This is on the ground level across from Indigo.

 

[Downtown Toronto]

Not sure why a bank needs a screen this huge... looks cool though!

 

[isaidso]

To convey to the public why banking fees need to stay high.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Not sure why a bank needs a screen this huge... looks cool though!
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Nevermind the need - the real question is why it used such sh*tty architecture as backdrop (save CN Tower).

AoD

 

[Sandpit]

Not sure why a bank needs a screen this huge... looks cool though!
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BMO needs to one-up Scotia because they're both aiming for 1 million new customers. So now Scotia will need a bigger screen.

 

[ChesterCopperpot]

Not big enough?

 

[Sandpit]

Not big enough?

 

[Benito]

Today.

 

[androiduk]

Starbucks here says it's opening in a few days.

 

[Benito]

Starbucks here says it's opening in a few days.

Opened on Saturday Jan 12/19.

 

[Benito]

Today.

 

[Downtown Toronto]

Jan 24 2019: The construction hoarding and concrete barriers were being removed from the Bloor frontage today.

 

[Benito]

Great news.

 

[zang]

The LCBO has broken down several permanent shelves on their south end and put product on industrial movable steel ones. If I were a betting man, I’d say they’re annexing the old Rexall space; and soon.

 

[jozl]

I’m not a big fan of the Munulife Centre, I kinda hate the look of raw concrete brutalist heaps, but this “reno” is hard to take. Yeesh, coudn’t they at least make an attempt to work with what was already there?