Groundbreaking ceremony for the first tower in Westdell Sereno West project technically known as 15 Capulet Walk and 689 Oxford Street West.
Should be 26s if they keep to the most recent plan. Although the render in the article only shows 23s? Good to see Westdell actually move ahead with one of their many apartment proposals.
After a couple of weeks of pause they have returned with excavator and dump trucks and appear to be starting excavation of the first building. They plan to have a parking garage structure running along the railway track embankment so not sure how deep they will go or if they plan to have even one level of underground parking.
Forming has started for what appears to be a retaining wall along the rail track embankment and for foundation footings. Does not appear to be any plans for an L1 level for this building or parking garage.
They have made some progress with the parking garage retaining wall along the south side and footings for the building. Using small mobile crane so far with no signs of a tower crane yet.
Westdell has started assembling the tower sections of the next tower crane to go up in London this year. Capulet is still closed where they appear to be installing the utility services connection into the street.
They added a couple more sections to the tower portion of the tower crane but not the boom or cab. Still have Capulet closed for the utility service connections.
They have now finished setting up the tower crane boom and cab. Have also reopened Capulet Walk road to traffic. Next up will Sifton get the tower crane for their 9s in West5 before Halloway Holdings gets the tower crane up at 320 King St?
Looked at the video............how is this transit oriented development?
TOD requires 2 things, development and transit and Oxford & Wonderland are not transit corridors. Oxford in particular is just a route with higher frequency than most but is not a corridor like Wellington will be. It's also kind of rich listening to the Mayor talk TOD when he personally voted against the west BRT project that would have ended at Capulet.
Just because there isn't BRT doesn't mean it's a transit deadzone. Wonderland southbound is busy enough they gave transit its own left turn lane from Sarnia Rd. There are multiple routes going through that intersection that probably provides a more useful service than BRT would
The intersection of Wonderland and Oxford is probably the highest population density in the city of London. As mentioned there is already a number of LTC routes thru this area. Plans for an additional dozen + apartment buildings in the years to come will add a couple of thousand more apartment units.
I imagine as well that while the west leg of BRT was killed, at some point given the amount of housing being built in this area a future council will most likely revisit that decision and hopefully reconsider it. This area already would significantly benefit from a BRT line, let alone as all the proposed projects continue to get built.
London should set the Western & Oxford West BRT as city priorities and ask QP and Ottawa for money. The largess of infrastructure spending isn't going to last forever and it's money London is missing out on. It would be hard for QP to deny now that the Ontario Line has tripled in price. London should be demanding at LEAST $500 million to expand the BRT system.
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Still have Capulet closed for the utility service connections.
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