McMaster Graduate Student Residence | ? | 31 & 10 fl | Complete

[Hawrylyshyn]

Originally Posted by urban_planner

They have begun installing much "Golder" cladding in here. Going to try and get a few drone shots later. Looks much better. I was honestly thinking the color they've had until now just looked like The standard life building and 25 main west.

Exciting! Was definitively hoping for it to be more gold than this

[TheRitsman]

Originally Posted by urban_planner

They have begun installing much "Golder" cladding in here. Going to try and get a few drone shots later. Looks much better. I was honestly thinking the color they've had until now just looked like The standard life building and 25 main west.

Whereabouts is this? I just walked past not half an hour ago, and I don't see any new cladding up today really.

[urban_planner]

So to throw myself under the bus/looking back at my past photos their isn't any new cladding, when I drove past it must have been the way the sun was hitting the panels.


I'm as disappointed as everyone else lol.

[spaghettisam]

Originally Posted by urban_planner

it must have been the way the sun was hitting the panels.

I don’t see this as a negative at all. It had been discussed in this forum that the classing would *hopefully look gold in the sun. Seems like the tower does indeed glisten in the sun !

[SteelTown]

FYI, Mac now has several job postings for 10 Bay St., so things are moving ahead quickly.

[TheRitsman]

Originally Posted by SteelTown

FYI, Mac now has several job postings for 10 Bay St., so things are moving ahead quickly.

They've really been focusing on interior work the last few weeks. Exterior work is at a crawl which is totally fair. I'm curious what kind of jobs they're hiring for.

[SteelTown]

Originally Posted by TheRitsman

I'm curious what kind of jobs they're hiring for.

Two job postings for "Housing Assistant" and one 'Finance Manager" aka collecting the rent.

The Housing Assistant will act as an ambassador of Housing and Conference Services. This position provides a visible and accessible front line presence in order to anticipate, understand and act upon all guest, resident and stakeholder needs at the Graduate Residence Building at 10 Bay Street. This role offers casual/ on call shifts.

[Crapht]

It appears that after two years of construction and as they prepare the street level landscaping that they have cut down the Locust tree at the corner of Bay and King. The tree they saved through construction has been removed to make way for a planter?

[TheRitsman]

Originally Posted by Crapht

It appears that after two years of construction and as they prepare the street level landscaping that they have cut down the Locust tree at the corner of Bay and King. The tree they saved through construction has been removed to make way for a planter?

I mentioned this on the UrbanToronto forum:

"This is the only new tree taken down so far, but we're weeks away from the landscape plan being done and they for some reason pulled out a mature tree to seemingly make a nicer planter box. It seems wholly unnecessary. The tree was large and actually made the development look great from day 1 with a large treat next to its corner. Now we will have to wait 10-20 years again for a mature tree to be there, assuming the city doesn't fuck it up and let a tree die 5 years into it's existence and then we have to start again."

In the site plan it shows a tree along Bay St, so I assume one will be planted? Why they pulled the tree out last minute before completion makes no sense to me. And if they will be installing a new tree, it doesn't looks like there will be enough soil: https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/thread...8/post-1979537

[drpgq]

So is this going to be ready for September move in?

[JakeLRS]

Originally Posted by drpgq

So is this going to be ready for September move in?

That would be under 3 weeks. I will be shocked if even a 1/2 of the building is ready for move in. It still looks like it needs a couple of months to finish completion.

I'm sure there is still tons of work that needs to be done past September; I could only imagine the headache it would be for students wanting to study when all they here are drills and hammers going on in the background all day long.

I've been driving past this thing after every shift, and while yes I'm shocked at how fast they are progressing, I just can't see them having it close to finished for September.

[Innsertnamehere]

I think they'll reach partial occupancy by then, but yes, final occupancy likely isn't until the January term at the earliest.

[TheHonestMaple]

You can actually see from the street that a lot of the units already have desks and furniture in them. But the rest of the building looks to be far from complete.

[StEC]

Hopefully they keep a few floors worth of buffer between occupied floors and floors still under construction so the students can sleep and study in peace!

[TheRitsman]

Originally Posted by StEC

Hopefully they keep a few floors worth of buffer between occupied floors and floors still under construction so the students can sleep and study in peace!

It won't matter, when they drill or hammer into the structure of these buildings you can hear it multiple floors away. They'll just be told to deal with it.

[Hamil60]

Talked to two students that moved in a few days ago they said no noises after 5. There are 5 floors with students in residence now

[SteelTown]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamil...sing-1.6957342

However, there will be more graduate-level international students this year than in previous years, said spokesperson Wade Hemsworth. To accommodate them, the university is set to open part of its new graduate residence at 10 Bay St. S., adding 250 beds this fall and another 350 in January.

[ScreamingViking]

Has Mac named this "hall" yet?

[Hamil60]

Named it. BIG MAC

[King&James]

Maybe Big "Haul" as an ode to the impressive revenue producing aspects of project.