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bomberjet · #**1361** Posted **Mar 18, 2016, 4:35 PM**

Interesting rig. Track mounted or something? Looks like it's a trailier. Never seen one of those before.

On the soil conditions. I'm used to working in contaminated areas. So when I see a black layer like that below ground, instantly think of coal or creosote. For an old bus depot, school, whatever was there, could've been some old pollution. But I like the topsoil answer better. Thanks.

Also, thanks for the photos cllew.

cllew · #**1362** Posted **Mar 18, 2016, 5:52 PM**

the drill rig is on skids (so is the geologists field shed next to it) and has a triangle hitch frame on the front.

I never see it being moved but i would guess its being dragged around the site by one of the loaders or by a chain from the bucket off of one of the excavators.

cllew · #**1363** Posted **Mar 18, 2016, 8:47 PM**

Looks like another crawler crane being assembled in the "pit" today. Not sure what its for as I don't see a foundation pad poured for PCL to start erecting a tower crane.

bomberjet · #**1364** Posted **Mar 18, 2016, 9:01 PM**

I noticed in one of your pictures there were some cones down in the pit. There appeared to be some kind of collapse around one of them. Any idea whats in there? 4 cones in the mud behind the 2 parked loaders. Looks like there is some type of caisson or piles in the ground. Can kind of see circular mark.

cllew · #**1365** Posted **Mar 18, 2016, 10:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by bomberjet

I noticed in one of your pictures there were some cones down in the pit. There appeared to be some kind of collapse around one of them. Any idea whats in there? 4 cones in the mud behind the 2 parked loaders. Looks like there is some type of caisson or piles in the ground. Can kind of see circular mark.

Not sure what the structures in the holes are for.

They were drilled and I can't recall if they were filled with a re-bar cage or just a I beam before the concrete was placed. They were covered with a tarp and heated for a few days and then the hole was backfilled with some of the clay they were taking from the other side of the pit and run over a few times with the loader to tamp them.

As soon as the rain came they started to turn into sinkholes and got the cone protection.

Jeremy6 · #**1366** Posted **Mar 21, 2016, 6:32 PM**

Cyro · #**1367** Posted **Mar 28, 2016, 4:55 PM**

Update Pic on TNS - March 28, 2016

http://www.truenorthsquare.com/devel...ructionupdate/

* Thx for the previous pics Jeremy6

robertocarlos · #**1368** Posted **Mar 28, 2016, 4:59 PM**

Are they not going to dig the basement from Graham right to the church property line?

bomberjet · #**1369** Posted **Mar 28, 2016, 5:02 PM**

Slowly working their way from north to south with the hole. Photo must have been taken around the same time I was walking by this morning. The excavator and truck right at the centre of the photo were digging away at the face. Looks like the piling rig right at the church is finishing off the last of the shoring piles.

The parkade seemed to span the entire site in the renderings. But I believe the lower level of the two was slightly smaller.

Kris22 · #**1370** Posted **Mar 30, 2016, 1:16 AM**

It's hard to tell from the pictures, but is anything happening on the second lot, by the convention center?

robertocarlos · #**1371** Posted **Mar 30, 2016, 1:25 AM**

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Originally Posted by Kris22

It's hard to tell from the pictures, but is anything happening on the second lot, by the convention center?

I was there 10 days ago and it is just a parking lot.

Biff · #**1372** Posted **Mar 30, 2016, 3:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by Kris22

It's hard to tell from the pictures, but is anything happening on the second lot, by the convention center?

I was down there today. They have removed all of the trailers and parked construction vehicles from the site. The site is now completely empty. It looks like they might be prepping for something to happen.

esquire · #**1373** Posted **Mar 30, 2016, 3:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by Biff

I was down there today. They have removed all of the trailers and parked construction vehicles from the site. The site is now completely empty. It looks like they might be prepping for something to happen.

I noticed that... I thought it maybe had to do with the extremely muddy conditions of the site since the melt began?

Biff · #**1374** Posted **Mar 30, 2016, 3:49 PM**

From this morning....by me

buzzg · #**1375** Posted **Mar 30, 2016, 6:17 PM**

Are those garages part of the church?

esquire · #**1376** Posted **Mar 30, 2016, 6:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by buzzg

Are those garages part of the church?

It's their property... they control the whole strip of St. Mary Ave. frontage.

bomberjet · #**1377** Posted **Mar 30, 2016, 6:25 PM**

If you look at the renderings, there will be a parkway in that area. It appears to go up and over where the garages are located. I'm interested to know exactly what will be happening there.

Seems TNS and the church have talked and are doing something together at that spot.

cheswick · #**1378** Posted **Mar 30, 2016, 6:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by buzzg

Are those garages part of the church?

Yes. Part of the small lot there that they own. There's also a lane in behind them that goes down to a few additional parking spots that are located at the west side of the building there.

buzzg · #**1379** Posted **Mar 30, 2016, 6:27 PM**

Weird.

esquire · #**1380** Posted **Mar 30, 2016, 6:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by buzzg

Weird.

There used to be a church-related building at one point on that site... a school, an office or a residence for clergy, I'm not sure exactly what. It's gone but the land still belongs to the church.