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Originally Posted by ssiguy
I know the Bell building downtown, when originally built, was designed so that it could be heightened to accommodate any further office needs. As I understand it, some of Bell is moving so perhaps this would be an option.
This would allow for faster and cheaper construction as well as take empty office space off the market. It's downtown location right along Dundas and the BRT is also ideal. I don't also think parking should be an issue as I have always thought that the best place for a new downtown city-owned parking garage would be the space behind the Bell building which borders Queen. It's dead space and is not suitable for residential.
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So Bell is actually fully moving out of the Bell building. They occupy 2 floors currently.
Also my company had a floor and a half there before the pandemic and we've reduced to just 1 now.
I'd expect the office space needs to be roughly one third to half of what they have now at the very most. So space for 1-1.5k office workers. Bell building could possibly house them as there's at least 3 full acre-sized floors available, plus partial floors or even a 4th full floor (I've only been there a couple times in the past 2+ years just to grab stuff from my desk and whatnot so not fully knowledgeable).
So yes they could possibly find an existing office building to locate to. If they can't all fit in Bell, maybe Farhi will throw in Market Tower or another one his of vacant properties - or they will build something new who knows.