195 Dundas Street - 25s (Complete) | 35s, 32s (Approved) - Page 14

jammer139 · #**261** Posted **Jun 20, 2023, 5:02 PM**

Ayerswood milestone today with the tower crane being disassembled. A worker onsite said they plan to start the next tower and it will be 45s. Haven't seen any indication of that with zoning applications so might take that with a grain of salt. Hopefully he is right.

jammer139 · #**262** Posted **Jun 21, 2023, 10:38 PM**

Looks like they have drywall up to the 10th floor level now as the interior finishing continues. Nearly done the exterior window and cladding now. Still have the 25th floor to do and the sections where the exterior elevator and tower crane connects are located. They have also completed the concrete fence posts for the courtyard entrance off Dundas Street. Will be interesting to see what form the fencing takes. An ornate Wrought Iron would be interesting design choice if they go that way.

jammer139 · #**263** Posted **Jul 22, 2023, 3:01 PM**

They have now poured a winding concrete sidewalk thru the Dundas St courtyard entrance. Appears that they are preparing planting beds on either side for landscaping as well. Drywall is now up to the 15 floor. Still working on exterior 25th floor finishing.

jammer139 · #**264** Posted **Aug 20, 2023, 5:44 PM**

The landscapers have planted various plants and created different rock garden like plots on either side of the winding sidewalk on the north side entrance off Dundas St. Will look good if given a chance to grow and develop without being destroyed by the homeless drug and mentally ill crowd. Still working on the exterior final clean-ups and progressing with interior finishing and drywall and painting. No indication they intend to start work on the phase 2 plan for the parking lot. I suspect it will be cleaned up and put to use as parking for the 25s tower tenants when they start moving in by the end of this year.

jammer139 · #**265** Posted **Sep 11, 2023, 2:37 PM**

Appear to have drywall installed now up to the 20th floor level. Of note they have now installed black steel fencing to enclose the Dundas St entrance and a steel gate door which appears to have a lock mechanism. Looks like they plan to only allow tenants to access the entrance area.

jammer139 · #**266** Posted **Dec 7, 2023, 4:33 PM**

They have now removed the exterior construction elevator from the south side. Should see the window-balcony door modules installed over the coming weeks along the strip where the elevator was.

jammer139 · #**267** Posted **Jan 3, 2024, 2:39 PM**

Looks like they have now finished installing the balcony doors and windows along the strip on the south side where the construction elevator was located. Still looks like they have some exterior finishing work to complete and I suspect the south side entrance way to cleanup. Will be very curious to see how well units rent in this building in the coming months. Would not be surprised to see alot of vacant units which likely means we will not see phase 2 started for many years.

jammer139 · #**268** Posted **Apr 7, 2024, 3:59 PM**

Ayerswood has finally opened up their website for this 25s building which they are calling Clarence Square. First tenants to start moving in April/May.

1,2 and 3 bedroom suites available starting at $2100.

Of note this info on the website:
Park securely in our on-surface lot, (with an underground lot coming in Fall/Winter 2024)

I wonder if they intend to excavate out the remaining parking lot and build the 2 levels of underground parking below the planned future high rise towers? I highly doubt the timeline if true.
Far more likely they did a deal with Galleria Mall/CitiPlaza to offer parking in the north side of the Mall.

https://www.195dundas.com/

sparky212 · #**269** Posted **Apr 26, 2024, 3:20 AM**

I did drive by the other nightand noticed that east lotlot for the most part was now fenced off. It's been a couple months since I've been down that way so not sure how recent of a change it is

jammer139 · #**270** Posted **Aug 25, 2024, 5:10 PM**

Interesting development with a large Caisson and Piling drilling rig now on site sinking pilings along the old Hotel side and King St side of property. Could this be the start of Phase 2 for Ayerswood? If so will they stick to the 35s and 32s previous plan or go taller or shorter? Or might they only be excavating for the 2 level underground parking levels as an interim step?

CanadianTalk · #**271** Posted **Aug 25, 2024, 5:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by jammer139

Interesting development with a large Caisson and Piling drilling rig now on site sinking pilings along the old Hotel side and King St side of property. Could this be the start of Phase 2 for Ayerswood? If so will they stick to the 35s and 32s previous plan or go taller or shorter? Or might they only be excavating for the 2 level underground parking levels as an interim step?

Looks like your 2nd guess is correct.

A building permit was issued last month for the underground garage.

jammer139 · #**272** Posted **Aug 25, 2024, 5:35 PM**

Interesting change to 3 level underground parking garage. Will likely still take well over a year to build. Wonder if they are considering changes to the two towers as well.

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Originally Posted by CanadianTalk

Looks like your 2nd guess is correct.

A building permit was issued last month for the underground garage.

Djeffery · #**273** Posted **Aug 25, 2024, 6:31 PM**

I wonder if a change they would look at is a single larger footprint building rather than 2 separate buildings.

jammer139 · #**274** Posted **Sep 4, 2024, 1:44 PM**

This LFP article is confusing to say the least.

Ayerswood re-evaluating their plans. Maybe selling?

If they plan to build 30s plus towers on top of the parking garage they need to insure the foundation footings on the parking garage are engineered for buildings of that size.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/deve...town-three-tower-project-over-brt-tussle

GreatTallNorth2 · #**275** Posted **Sep 4, 2024, 1:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by jammer139

This LFP article is confusing to say the least.

Ayerswood re-evaluating their plans. Maybe selling?

If they plan to build 30s plus towers on top of the parking garage they need to insure the foundation footings on the parking garage are engineered for buildings of that size.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/deve...town-three-tower-project-over-brt-tussle

That guy (Tony Graat) has a long history in London. He's not a great developer, loves to complain about the city and rarely builds anything. If he was serious he would negotiate higher density due to the BRT stop. Instead he wants to sue the city for $53 million? My guess is that he just doesn't have the money to build. It's a shame he got that land.

jammer139 · #**276** Posted **Sep 4, 2024, 2:05 PM**

The LFP article is confusing because the lawsuit was tossed back in 2018 and is history. The article jumps around in the timeline which makes it harder to understand.

jammer139 · #**277** Posted **Sep 8, 2024, 1:42 PM**

Curious to see that the large piling drilling rig has already been removed from the parking lot. They don't appear to have ever worked on the eastern third of the parking lot fronting Clarence St.

jammer139 · #**278** Posted **Sep 10, 2024, 3:48 PM**

Looks like they brought back the caisson drilling rig to the site or maybe a different one.

jammer139 · #**279** Posted **Sep 11, 2024, 3:05 PM**

It's odd they appear to be drilling caisson pilings down the middle of the parking lot from north to south now basically cutting the parking lot in half. You'd think they would be sinking pilings all around the full perimeter of the current parking lot if they planned to excavate the full footprint for underground parking and the footings for future towers.

GreatTallNorth2 · #**280** Posted **Sep 11, 2024, 3:56 PM**

It was quoted somewhere in the media that they are considering selling off the remaining land to another developer. That would explain why they would not be using the entire parcel.