Toronto One Bloor West | 308.6m | 85s | Tridel | Foster + Partners

Any speculation on which developer picks up the project?

Westbank might be able to swing it. 19 Duncan, King Toronto, and Mirvish Village are their only active Toronto projects and all are very close to being finished (occupancy/registered warranty repairs).

Concord seems an obvious candidate given they turned a profit off finishing Cresford projects and seem to have bottomless credit lines.

Would Menkes, Tridel, Great Gulf, Pemberton, etc. be interested? They seem to have a full plate already.
 
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Collingwoodbuildinglover said:
I just did a floor count from the top of the last hanger looks like one final floor then mechanical though tying those sheer walls would add quite a large amount to work which probably is contributing to these floors taking longer
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In BloorMan's post #16,930 it looks like they were pouring walls for 56, so next slab forms we see should be the next mechanical (57).
 
rbt said:
Any speculation on which developer picks up the project?

Westbank 💲?? might be able to swing it. 19 Duncan and Mirvish Village are their only active Toronto projects and both are very close to being finished (registered, doing warranty repairs).

Concord seems an obvious candidate given they turned a profit off finishing Cresford projects and seem to have bottomless credit lines.

Would Menkes, Tridel, Great Gulf, Pemberton, etc. be interested? They seem to have a full plate already.
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My edits above = my thoughts.

DREAM ☁️?
 
rbt said:
Any speculation on which developer picks up the project?

Westbank might be able to swing it. 19 Duncan and Mirvish Village are their only active Toronto projects and both are very close to being finished (registered, doing warranty repairs).

Concord seems an obvious candidate given they turned a profit off finishing Cresford projects and seem to have bottomless credit lines.

Would Menkes, Tridel, Great Gulf, Pemberton, etc. be interested? They seem to have a full plate already.
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Westbank??? Huh???
 
ProjectEnd said:
Westbank??? Huh???
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I mean, it could be a dating match-up between a building that's having financial problems with a dev that's having financial troubles. Look how that worked out for Mizrahi... /s
 
From today...as the snow comes down:)

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Photos taken today, Friday (Mar. 22), as the snow came down! So the shots here are kinda... hazy! A fair bit of progress since I posted last Friday. The blue forms on top have moved up a level and are on 56 / 57 for the core, I believe. Level 57 is a milestone floor, the first level of the third mechanical level. Further down, as BloorMan posted this past weekend, the 5th set of corner hangers have been installed. And the Rail Climbing Systems (RCSs) have progressed, with the north RCS joining the east RCS installing level 19, the first floor above the first mechanical level. Meanwhile, the west RCS is up to level 18 or so. The shape of the notched building now revealing itself. Visible on the south side are more windows installed to the right of the crane. Last week, 19 and 20 were done, with some windows in on 21. Now, 21 is done and 22 has most of the windows in place. And barely visible are windows under the east RCS installed on 19, 20 (as was last week), and now 21 as well.

Another possible milestone, as some new scaffolding installed on the Bloor Street sidewalk, presumable for consumer access to the tower, perhaps presaging some activity on the ground floor retail level? (Visible in the first image here.)

Starting with this week's addition to the Flickr "time-lapse" album of mine, followed by views from the south, showing more windows there on the south face, followed by the view from by Holt Renfrew on Bloor, west of Yonge, then views from Cumberland east of Bay including the raised RCSs and the new set of hangers. Views from Yonge Street just north of Bloor, and from Bloor just east of Yonge, and finally from the west, Bedford and Bloor.

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One Bloor West (The One) "time-lapse"

From October, 2020, as above-ground construction started in earnest at The One (1 Bloor W.) in Toronto. More or less a weekly photo usually taken on a Friday, with some gaps during early-on construction hiatuses. The initial photographs are from 2015, during demolition at the site, 2018, during...
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kotsy said:
paywall bypass
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Wow... what tangled web was woven.

My selfish skyscraper geek brain was most disappointed that it appears The One will indeed be capped at its original 85 storey height. :(
 
What a mess. We are very lucky we didn't end up with The Stump 2.0 here.

Meanwhile, from the posted article...

"Most of the sources contacted by the Star for this story believe The One will be completed within the next two years, albeit with modifications to Mizrahi's plan, including capping the number of levels at 85."
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...looks like there will indeed be a height and floor count change @Paclo, @interchange42.
 
306m is a huge height chop and isnt very impressive considering the quality downgrade that will result from Skygrid VE. It wont appear any higher than FCP and lacks the volume/robustness.

It'll just read like just another condo. Closer in height and quality to Aura than John Hancock in Chicago.

I'd rather have had a 240m-280m RAMSA like originally planned when Mizrahi first acquired the site

Out of principle , I think I'll bow out from following this closely.

Wouldnt suprise me if Skygrid also scraps the spot lighting on the beams. It sounds like their general contractor will be ruthless. Expect tacky bright LED strip lighting that dosent flatter the beams
 
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