February 29, 2012
Massey Tower - One of Toronto Many New Condo’s to Be

BlogTO has given a great look at the new Massey Tower that is set to be built across from the Eaton Centre in one of the old iconic bank buildings.

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Filed under: Toronto Urban Development Condos Towers Skyscrapers Eaton Centre Canada Ontario buildings 
February 2, 2012
Good-bye Ontario Place, Hello Possible Site for Olympic Stadium/Althete’s Village?

It’s the end of an Era for Ontario Place. After more than 30 years of operation the province’s tourist attracted will be closed until at least 2017. Queen Park cited the over $16 billion Ontario deficit and and savings of over $20 million with closing the money losing attraction as reason for the shut down.

Popular venues like the Atlantis Pavillion (site for many a weddings, formals/proms, and other functions) and the Molson Amphitheatre will remain open however.

So what will be done with the 51 hectare space? Numerous things have been proposed: condos, floating hotel, a casino. Though officials say a casino is not likely to be built there, though one at Exhibition Place is another story.

While there are those, like Ontario tourism minister Michael Chan, who want to see the site open for the 2015 Pan-Am Games and fully operational for Canada’s 150th Bday in 2017 I for one suggest another option. Through Toronto’s name into the hat for the 2024 Olympic Games. Ontario Place would be a great spot for the athlete’s village and possibly even an Olympic Stadium. Transform the area into a centre for sport, people can go there to train in swimming, rowing, canoeing, sailing, track, and other competitive diciplines that could have facilities in or attached to the space.

My other suggestion would be to turn it into a large park. Forget the attractions open the space up for people to walk around, open a pond for additional skating space that can be use in the winter, create running and biking paths on it for people to enjoy during the warmer months (and for the braver to enjoy year round). The land Ontario Place sits on is too valuable to simply turn over to condo or commercial development, it should very much remain a public space.

While may Olympic thought is a personal dream of mine (I would love nothing more than to see the most multi-cultural city in the world, a city I believe embodies what the Olympic’s represents in this world, host the summer games) I know it is not something many other people share (especially during a time of fiscal restraint). I do have faith in John Tory, that he will not privatize the space and will be able to create something special, be that a simple public park space, or as he hinted at something along the lines of Chicago’s Millennium Park. I am excited to see what happens.

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Filed under: Ontario Place Toronto Ontario tourism attractions development 
December 7, 2011
Toronto - Up Up and Away

Just when you thought Toronto’s condo and mega construction boom couldn’t get any hotter a quick look at some of the proposed building projects puts ya straight.

Since the construction of 1 King West (176m) 2005 Toronto has seen a resurgance in the construction of skyscrapers (for the purpose of saving time and space I have only included buildings over 150m).

Recently we have seen the completion of:

  1. Maple Leaf Square South and North towers (170m and 186m)
  2. Pinnacle Centre - Success Tower (157.4m) - 2009
  3. Quantum North (160m) - 2009
  4. The Ritz-Carlton (208m) - 2010
  5. Bay Adelaide Centre (218m) - 2009
  6. RBC Centre (183m) - 2009
  7. Residences of College Park (163m) - 2006
  8. Four Seasons Hotel and Residences West (205m) - 2011
  9. The Uptown Residences (158m) - 2011
  10. Festival Tower (157m) - 2010

Currently there are a number of other building under construction:

  1. Trump International Hotel and Tower (281.88m) - 2011/2012
  2. Aura at College Park (239.78m) - Estimated 2013 completion.
  3. Shangri-La (210m) - Estimated 2012 completion
  4. Ice Condo, structure 2 (216.8m) - Estimated 2014 completion
  5. Ice Condo, structure 1 (185.8m) - Estimated 2013 completion
  6. L Tower (205m) - Estimated 2012 completion
  7. U Condominiums (175m) - Estimated 2012 completion
  8. Number One Bloor (*230ish m) - Estimated 2014 completion
  9. 300 Front st. West (156m) - Estimated completion 2012
  10. Burano on Bay (158m) - Estimated completion 2012
  11. Westlake, structure 1&2 (meters unknown, floors 50) - Estimated completion unknown
  12. FIVE Condominiums (152.35m) - Estimated completion 2014

Even more buildings have been proposed:

  1. Ten York (248.72m) - Estimated occupancy 2016
  2. 90 Harbour Square, structure 2 (70 floors, height unknown)
  3. 90 Harbour Square, structure 1 (70 floors, height unknown)
  4. Signature (217.5m) - Status unknown
  5. 156 Front West, Structure 1 (65 floors, height unknown)
  6. 460 Yonge (60 floors, height unknown)
  7. 501 Yonge, North structure (192m)
  8. 501 Yonge, South structure (192m)
  9. 42 Charles East (57 floors, heigh unknown)
  10. Yorkville and Bay, Structure 2 (56 floors, height unknown)
  11. 6 Glen, Structure 4 (56 floors, height unknown)
  12. Canada Tower Hotel and Residence , and The Residences at First Toronto Tower (55 floors, height unknown)
  13. Karma (52 floors, height unknown)
  14. 156 Front West, Structure 2 (54 floors, height unknown)
  15. 6 Glen, Structure 3 (53 floors, height unknown)
  16. 6 Glen, Structure 2 (50 floors, height unknown)
  17. Richmond Adelaide Centre 2 (183m)
  18. 43 Gerrard West (50 floors, height unknown)
  19. Waterways (153.1m)
  20. 40 Scott st. aka: Royal & Sun Alliance (58 floors, 194.767)

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