Toronto Condos - Plazacorp Update
Coming Soon: King West Condominiums in Liberty Village at King West and Strachan!
Plazacorp quality in design, architecture, finishes and features is coming this spring to Liberty Village! Full-sized suites, upscale interior design, richer finishes, impressive architecture and enhanced value, hallmarks of every Plazacorp condominium, will set a new standard for Liberty Village and you will be among the first to know about it! We’ll keep you updated as soon as we have any new information. In the meantime, if you have any friends who are interested in owning a Plazacorp-quality condominium in Liberty Village, forward this blog post to them and tell them to contact us and register to be kept up to date. We’ll keep YOU posted as soon as we know more.
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West Harbour City Phases 1 & 2 - Construction Update
If you’ve driven by the Fleet Street site for West Harbour City Phases 1 & 2 lately, you’ll have noticed that the old Molson building is now almost completely demolished, and you would have also noticed a big red construction crane on the site of Phase 1.
The demolition process was incredibly onerous as the Molson Brewery building had been engineered to a far higher standard than any conventional residential or commercial building would ever be, in order to be able to support the massive 2-storey high beer brewing vats on each of the building’s 5 storeys, each holding tens of thousands of litres of beer. Even the below grade “demolition” was onerous, as the building used concrete and steel driven right down to bedrock in its original construction.
But the demolition is now done (and environmentally managed too; as you may have read in earlier newsletters, demolition was carried out in such a way as to ensure that the maximum amount of material was recycled, steel back to steel, and concrete crushed to make gravel for new roads).
The crane on the West Harbour City Phase 1 site is now proceeding with the construction of the underground parking structures which will form the foundations for the first phase and, in September, once all of the remaining debris from the demolition process is removed, “shoring” for phase 2 is slated to begin. “Shoring” is the process of installing perimeter walls below ground level all around the foundations of the building while excavation of the basement parking levels proceeds; the shoring walls keep the sides of the construction site in place while the Phase 2 parking is being excavated and then built. It won’t be long before there are several cranes on the West Harbour City site working on construction of Phase 1 and Phase 2 simultaneously. We’ll keep you posted on Phase 3 when we have any news.
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900 Mt. Pleasant - Topping Off
In every field, there are milestones that deserve to be celebrated, and, in highrise construction “topping off” is one of those milestones. When a building is topped off, it means that concrete for the top of the top floor (the ceiling of the Penthouse Suites) has been completed and, although there’s lots still to be done, it marks the point where the essential structure of the building is complete and, once the heavy rooftop heating and cooling units and elevator and other mechanical units have been hoisted up to the roof, the massive construction cranes can begin to be dismantled.
The topping off for 900 Mt. Pleasant, a party held for all the workers who have laboured on the project, is scheduled for the first half of September. (This is a construction workers party only: this is still a construction site, and still a dangerous place.) If you drive by 900 Mt. Pleasant in the coming weeks, you’ll begin to see the other exterior work progressing once the structure is complete: brick is arriving daily and being “laid up” along the building, and truckloads of windows are also arriving on site daily and are going to be installed in sync with the brick and other exterior materials. It won’t be long before 900 Mt. Pleasant starts to display its finished character to passersby.
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