/\ Yes, that’s the site that includes the former Serious Coffee right? Great site for an inevitable development I’d have to say.
Some development news - first some not good ‘news’ about Starlight’s Harris Green development. I saw 4 big wigs from Campbell Construction finishing up a meeting at the Nest (you know they’re management when they’re dressed in business clothes with virgin safety vests) and as we were crossing Yates and Cook I asked them when Harris Green would get started. Three of them just smirked and one said laughing “maybe in five years!”. I replied “funny, I would have guessed it would have gotten started before this one” (the active former Pacific Mazda site) to which he replied “yah, so did we”.
I believe Campbell was going to be the general contractor for Harris Green and they are currently using the site to support their work across the street.
Now of course this is not confirmed, and one boardroom meeting in Toronto could green light the project at any moment. It’s still listed on their website as one of their highlighted projects, yet the link to the actual project at the bottom of the page is now dead.. Also Starlight has been in the news lately for some massive losses in the US real estate market.
I’ll now start referring to these sites as
StarBlights as they also own the former Ming’s site which has been fenced off for several years.
https://www.starlightinvest.com/prop...-green-village
Ok, here’s the former Pacific Mazda site:
1050 Yates Street - June 8, 2024 by
JohnnyJayEh, on Flickr
This building looks to be just finishing up, and it’s a rental with listing online now. Also has a new crazy name which makes no sense:
1088 Johnson Street - “Urban Edge Heights B” by
JohnnyJayEh, on Flickr
I’m still surprised they managed to squeeze that building into such a small lot - but it looks really good for a straight forward building. It’s the little touches that make it stand out, like the concrete design near the base, that random touch of blue and the pattern on the balcony glass. From a distance with the right sun (which I didn’t catch) it also shimmers - turns out it’s just a simple opaque fading circle design - right up close probably nothing special, but it really works.
And just down the block the Wedge must finally be nearing completion, no?! The solar panels on the roof appeared to have been completed, and they’re still restoring the funeral home chapel one storey component at the corner. Still need to take a proper picture from the Johnson street side, that’s a tricky one because there is no room to back up and get it properly unless I use a cell phone camera. You can also see the first few floors of the adjacent 15 storey building on Vancouver and Pandora.
The Wedge condo - June 8, 2024 by
JohnnyJayEh, on Flickr
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Time to take it out of the box and put it to use. hahaha.
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