Toronto The Selby | 165.5m | 50s | Tricon | bKL Architecture

[Towered]

Or James Cooper mansion directly next door.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

It can't plausibly beat this:

AoD

 

[stjames2queenwest]

Wow they even had to remove power lines to move that. Crazy. Cool video.

 

[Stupidandshallow]

There's an article on 680news about the move!

A 130-year-old grand, red-brick mansion on Sherbourne Street, just south of Bloor, is getting a new lease on life.

The Gooderham mansion has been hoisted onto massive yellow steel beams ahead of its big move in the next two to three weeks.

Laurie McCulloch of McCulloch Building Movers told 680 News the heritage building will actually be moved twice – back about nine metres then forward about 25 metres.

“The house has to come as close to the street as it can, to allow for the tower that’s going up behind,” McCulloch said. “It’s going to be an apartment building, which is unusual in itself because they haven’t built big apartments in a long time.”

The house weighs about 900 tonnes.

Its claim to fame, beyond being one of the few still-standing heritage homes, is that legendary writer Ernest Hemingway lived there in the 1920s.

McCulloch’s Whitby-based company is the same one that moved the James Cooper mansion next door. The Cooper is now part of a condo tower.

http://www.680news.com/2015/09/03/gooderham-mansion-makes-way-for-new-apartment-building/

I'm looking forward to seeing this go up. Kinda' bummed that it is now rental since this area already has a tremendous amount of rental buildings.

 

[UrbanAffair]

^True, but this is a different market of rentals, and the mix can mean only good things for the area I think.

 

[salsa]

 

[UD2]

They had a problem at the site today. The shoring drill caught the grounding wire for one of the utility/street lamp poles and snapped off the top half the the pole.

 

[stjames2queenwest]

The first photo is from a few days back. The second was from this morning. Prior to any issues that I guess occurred later in the day

 

[UD2]

You can see the snapped pole in the above picture

 

[stjames2queenwest]

Oh. Yes you can lol. I did not notice it while walking by. Whoops

 

[interchange42]

Ground is now officially broken, and we have a front page story up here.

42

 

[salsa]

I'm looking forward to this one.

 

[stjames2queenwest]

This right up to sherbourne now. I did not expect it to happen so fast. Makes the corner look better definitely.

 

[Atlantis]

A few images from this afternoon. Sitting really close to the sidewalk now. Wondering if this is the final position or if we will see it pushed back a bit once the tower is up.

 

[stjames2queenwest]

December 9th