wesportly
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Explain.
It looks like something you'd see in Las Vegas or Florida. I don't like the hollow that runs up the building, especially, but the entire tower just doesn't excite me in general. I just find it boring. The skin kind of reminds of the Holiday Inn on King West.
I prefer the Bazis proposal. Aren't they building Musuem House or something else in that area? What exactly stopped their 1 Bloor project from going ahead if they're building elsewhere in the city?
It looks like something you'd see in Las Vegas or Florida. I don't like the hollow that runs up the building, especially, but the entire tower just doesn't excite me in general. I just find it boring. The skin kind of reminds of the Holiday Inn on King West.
That's a shame. I liked their proposal much more.
Really? If Adam Vaughan ain't got nothin' on you... why is he my city Councillor and not you? Explain.
this is just a rumour, no?
Seems odd it has been quiet for so long. Why not push for extra height if the demand is there, but it seems like whenever a project in Toronto tries to push the height envelope, they get scaled back or canceled (Aura is the exception)
Bazis had sold out their proposal within days, but they had also arranged funding for the project through Lehman Brothers. When Lehman Brothers unexpectedly went belly-up, they took the project financing with them into oblivion, and the resulting worldwide credit collapse meant than no other bank was giving out building loans.
Basically, Bazis were about to start construction when they suffered incredibly bad luck with their construction financing and were forced to hand the project over to GG. Not that it stops people from making snide comments about foreign Kazakh businessmen without the smarts to put together a project of this size.