Construction sites in your city/town - Page 81

giallo · #**1601** Posted **Dec 25, 2010, 6:51 AM**

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Originally Posted by habfanman

'No Fun City' looking more overpriced green/grey/grim glass condoey every day!

Wow. Great comments and contributions to the forum, little one. It must be great to have all this free time to troll the internet boards. I mean, just because school is out for Christmas break doesn't mean you can act out indefinitely. There's still time for coal to fill your stocking.

habfanman · #**1602** Posted **Dec 25, 2010, 6:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by caltrane74

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/Canada+High+rise+condo+sales+record/4006352/story.html

Canada. High-rise condo sales hit new record

Sales of highrise condos are stacking up -- the market had its best-ever performance in November, with 2,293 condos sold in the Greater Toronto Area, an increase of 8.4 per cent over the previous year, according to the Building Industry & Land Development Association (BILD). There were also 1,788 single-detached and semi-detached and town house units sold last month. The combined 4,081 units was one per cent higher than sales in November 2009, according to RealNet Canada Inc., BILD's official source. For the year to date, the GTA housing market is ahead of this time last year by 14 per cent.

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http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/toda...ced+condo+ever+Quebec/4006865/story.html

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Ritz: highest-priced condo ever in Quebec

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The sale of the penthouse at the Montreal Ritz-Carlton Hotel and Residences might be the highest priced residential transaction ever in Quebec.

But despite selling for $13 million plus taxes, the opulent penthouse at the historic Sherbrooke St. hotel is significantly less expensive than a luxurious unit with similar amenities in Vancouver, or Toronto.

In Toronto's Yorkville district, a 9,000-square-foot penthouse at the Four Seasons hotel and residences -with separate living quarters for staff -is still on the market for a staggering $30 million.

It's the highest-priced condo in the country.

And while condo prices in Montreal are unlikely to catch up to those in Toronto or Vancouver anytime soon, the number of luxury projects here is growing.

Indeed, Sotheby's executive Dave Carson moved from Atlanta to Canada in fall 2009 specifically to develop high-end markets in Quebec and Ontario.

"I think that the interesting thing about Montreal -until recently the $900 to $1,000 a square foot price point was uncommon," said Carson, a vice-president at Sotheby International Realty Canada-Quebec. "That 'shocking price point' is no longer the case. And I suspect that it will only go higher."

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/Ritz+high...+Quebec/4006865/story.html#ixzz18mHtDnS1

So a condo on elegant Sherbrooke St. sells for 13 million while a condo in ugly, pretentious, douchebaggy Yorkville goes unsold for 30 million?

Kind of reaffirms your faith in the Human Race doesn't it?

habfanman · #**1603** Posted **Dec 25, 2010, 7:20 AM**

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Originally Posted by giallo

Wow. Great comments and contributions to the forum, little one. It must be great to have all this free time to troll the internet boards. I mean, just because school is out for Christmas break doesn't mean you can act out indefinitely. There's still time for coal to fill your stocking.

Sorry mate, but if you take issue with my impression of Vancouver as being:

-No Fun City
-overpriced
-green, grey, grim
-condoey

then feel free to convince me otherwise! Based on my last visit however..

Though I do hear that you have mild winters.. (I hear it over and over and over and over... you'd almost think that endless rain is a good thing!)

1ajs · #**1604** Posted **Dec 25, 2010, 8:34 AM**

CMHR

runing on junk computers FTL and a dirty sensor FTL... i need a new computer realy badly

vanman · #**1605** Posted **Dec 25, 2010, 6:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by habfanman

Sorry mate, but if you take issue with my impression of Vancouver as being:

-No Fun City

We lost that moniker during the 2010 olympics. If you weren't here than you have no clue. The IOC actually told the city to tone down the parties.

The Vancouver Games: A Gold in Drinking (Time Magazine)
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1968544,00.html

caltrane74 · #**1606** Posted **Dec 28, 2010, 4:24 AM**

18 york - toronto by me

lumiere condo

caltrane74 · #**1607** Posted **Dec 28, 2010, 2:31 PM**

by me

eaton centre reno - toronto

caltrane74 · #**1608** Posted **Dec 28, 2010, 9:38 PM**

MV5(Toronto) by me

caltrane74 · #**1609** Posted **Dec 29, 2010, 3:06 AM**

boutique condo - toronto

caltrane74 · #**1610** Posted **Dec 30, 2010, 2:43 PM**

M5V Life by me

caltrane74 · #**1611** Posted **Dec 30, 2010, 3:06 PM**

18 York - Toronto

kcantor · #**1612** Posted **Dec 30, 2010, 11:01 PM**

getting ready to take the tall crane down at epcor:

1ajs · #**1613** Posted **Dec 31, 2010, 6:44 AM**

Photos from the WAA facebook page

U.S. Baggage area

Departures

caltrane74 · #**1614** Posted **Dec 31, 2010, 10:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by androiduk

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Ritz Carlton Tower - Interior pics from androiduk at UT

ZeDgE · #**1615** Posted **Jan 1, 2011, 12:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by 1ajs

Photos from the WAA facebook page

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U.S. Baggage area
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Departures
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That looks awesome. Will it be done by April? Going to Florida and we stop in Winnipeg on the way.

caltrane74 · #**1616** Posted **Jan 1, 2011, 1:06 PM**

More of my update of the Eaton Centre Renovation.

For those that don't know the Eaton Centre is in the top tier of Ontario Malls probably preceded by the likes of Yorkdale, Square One or Sherway Gardens. To me I find it's very elegant inside, even though half the people there are gangsters and teenage hoodlums.

All the railings and flooring on these levels need to be replaced with the glass and and flooring of the previous photos.
Still alot of work to be done.

The Eaton Centre was among the first in a new concept of North American Malls, inthat it was built in a downtown centre. Others followed and have tried to duplicate it's success, only a few of those attempts have succeeded.

The Eaton Centre started construction in 1969 and was partially opened from the mid-1970's in stages.

You can see the 1970's mystik in the photo above with the tube railing that gave the Eaton Centre it's distinctive look.

When complete a new look, for a new century. Moving forward into the new age for Downtown Toronto set to take on the other global cities on their turf, of high and low end shopping for young punks - like Shinjuku in Tokyo. Of course those that hate kids, can always go to Yorkville Ginza!