Toronto Parliament Street Data Centre | ?m | 5s | BRL Realty | WZMH

[Razz]

Night Time View:

 

[hawc]

Those cops must have one of the nicest divisional headquarters in the country. Gorgeous building across the street from Le Center de Data.

 

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Those cops must have one of the nicest divisional headquarters in the country. Gorgeous building across the street from Le Center de Data.

There are really two buildings. The shell of the old Consumers Gas building and a new building built inside it and spreading out north and east. The shell is certainly nice (though I wish they would repaint and then wash the windows!) and the new "insert' fits well with it. Is it actually good to work in? I do not know.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Those cops must have one of the nicest divisional headquarters in the country. Gorgeous building across the street from Le Center de Data.

It was open for Doors Open years ago - the interior is decent (particularly the public section within the gas plant) but Taj Mahal it isn't. I think the new Division 11 might have it beat.

AoD

 

[Roundabout]

Yesterday:

 

[Roundabout]

September 4th:

 

[hawc]

Sorry if this has already been answered, but why is this being built in downtown Toronto right next to a historical district and surrounded by new condos and home rather than out in the boonies or in some industrial park. Surely electricity and data can travel anywhere at the speed of light. Not hating on the project (I actually like it) just curious why they picked this location.

 

[adHominem]

Sorry if this has already been answered, but why is this being built in downtown Toronto right next to a historical district and surrounded by new condos and home rather than out in the boonies or in some industrial park. Surely electricity and data can travel anywhere at the speed of light. Not hating on the project (I actually like it) just curious why they picked this location.

Proximity actually matters more than one would think with data transmission, particularly in (for example) some high-speed financial transactions, where hundredths of a second can mean differences of hundredths-of-cents, which in large trading volumes add up to non-trivial sums.

 

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Proximity actually matters more than one would think with data transmission, particularly in (for example) some high-speed financial transactions, where hundredths of a second can mean differences of hundredths-of-cents, which in large trading volumes add up to non-trivial sums.

See 60 Minutes episode on this at: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-lewis-stock-market-rigged-flash-boys-60-minutes/

 

[Razz]

Taken Sept. 5, 2014:

 

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There will, apparently, be landscaping immediately south of the Data Centre but does anyone know what is planned for the parking lot that is immediately south of this (along the north side of Mill Street)? Does the strip on the north side of Mill belong to the City, to WT or ??

 

[Razz]

My understanding is that the lands are owned by the Province and have been subject to a 20 year land lease with Chrysler, as tenant, who use it for vehicle storage, although for the time being it is being used as a staging area while the data centre is under construction. I do not know what the remaining term of the lease is, or if Chrysler has any renewal options, but my presumption is the lease will expire in the next few years, if it hasn’t already. There seems to be a lot of mystery surrounding this land lease and little information about it has been forthcoming to the community.

The parcel of land you ask about forms part of Blocks 1 and 6 of the West Don Lands Precinct Plan and has always been designated as future parkland. The 0.9 acre parkette identified as Parliament Street/Trinity Square Park in their diagrams below (courtesy of Waterfront Toronto) will be disected into two separate parcels by a future local street (Street E) that will run north/south from Mill Street to Front Street along the east side of the data centre which will front prominently on the new street. This linear park is meant to form a continuous greenway connecting The Esplanade linear park with the Distillery District, and once the existing Green P parking lot at the south end of the First Parliament Site is redeveloped as open space/park land.

 

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The parcel of land you ask about forms part of Blocks 1 and 6 of the West Don Lands Precinct Plan and has always been designated as future parkland. The 0.9 acre parkette identified as Parliament Street/Trinity Square Park in their diagrams below (courtesy of Waterfront Toronto) will be disected into two separate parcels by a future local street (Street E) that will run north/south from Mill Street to Front Street along the east side of the data centre which will front prominently on the new street. This linear park is meant to form a continuous greenway connecting The Esplanade linear park with the Distillery District, and once the existing Green P parking lot at the south end of the First Parliament Site is redeveloped as open space/park land.

Thanks very much, let's hope that the park along the south side of the data centre gets designed (and built) soon; at present Mill Street is not an attractive entrance to the Distillery or the West Don Lands (and don't get me started out Trinity Street!). Clearly too late to achieve much before Pan-Am Games, which is too bad.

 

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The crane is coming down today - in fact it is mostly down right now.

 

[Roundabout]