Posted these in the great hostpital thread but thought it might be of interest here as well.
Construction site of the massive, $2.2B expansion of the Enfant-Jésus hospital in Quebec City. Interestingly, this new hospital will mainly be heated/air-conditioned by water vapor. The city's incinerator is located about 2km away from the hospital and a few years ago, in anticipation of the construction, huge pipes were installed between the two complexes so that water vapor produced at the incinerator will be directed to a power plant installed at the hospital. It will cut greenhouse emissions by an estimated 95%.
The old hospital will be integrated into the new complex. In the following renders, you can see how the architects tried to somehow aesthetically merge the new construction with the old one.
Below, 8 towers rising east of Yonge, on/near Church Street. Nearly 1,000 metres of new height for the mostly* low/mid-rise street until a half dozen years ago.
Still to come, a new tallest called QueenChurch (underway soon) @ 186 metres. In the pipeline is 119 Church just shy of 200 metres, 18 Dalhousie @ 175 metres and Centricity @ 171 metres.
*The first tower to be built on Church Street was Sp!re @ 147 metres, completed in 2007. By 2017/18 or so, four 100m+ projects were completed on Church.
Axis @ 121.9m
Stanley Condos @138.37m
365 Church @ 102.1m
Alter @ 107.8m
From a couple of weeks ago. Charles Street between Yonge and Church is mucho dense, with another 150 metre+ tower, The Charles at Church, rising behind this one.
85, rue St-Vallier Est. This project had been put on hold for a year but the construction site is active once again.
Le Zénith Not the most spectacular project but one that is direly needed : 108 appartements for low income tenants, 39 of which will be reserved for young adults getting out of Quebec's youth protection program.
Ilot Prince-Édouard. No renders out yet but we know it will be 125 appartments on 7 floors.
First phase of the Fleur-de-Lys shopping mall redevelopement (3500 housing units total).
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There are new, more detailed renderings for the tower that's half built at King's Wharf in Dartmouth. This one is to be called the Kevel (typo? ).
It has an interesting lowrise shop component. I wonder if it'll turn out like this. The new tower is the tallest one in the first rendering. The ones in behind are already completed and the one in front is a future phase. I wish they had better plans to integrate this development with the adjacent blocks, but there is a rail line that divides them a bit.
This will be interesting to watch. A few years ago I think this building might have just been torn down. Aside from preserving the buildings many of these relocations bring the streetscapes up a notch by reducing setbacks.
There is another similar apartment building that's not getting saved near Robie Street (facing Balcom Square):
The former Kraus carpet factory is being demolished at 565 Conestogo Rd. W. in Waterloo to make way for a highrise development.
Elevate Condos Kitchener
Developers had less than $300 in the bank when construction stopped on their Kitchener condo tower
Stalled housing project on Weber Street may soon be put up for sale with a buyer sought by March
Jeff Outhit Reporter December 7, 2023
Quote:
KITCHENER — Two Kitchener developers owed more than $100 million but had less than $300 in their bank account when they lost control of their unfinished, 15-storey condominium tower on Weber Street East, a new report says.
The report provides more detail around the financial meltdown of the Elevate housing project, before lenders persuaded a court to order the project into receivership in October. Receivership assigns control to a court appointee who can sell assets to pay outstanding debt.
Development partners Werner Leuschner and Kamal Patel pre-sold all 177 units in the unfinished tower plus 325 units in other proposed towers before they ran out of money, court documents indicate.
The developers have not responded to interview requests left with people at addresses listed as their residences. “I'm not the spokesperson for that project,“ a man said Tuesday, shutting the door on a reporter who asked if he is Patel.
Condo buyers in the first tower agreed to pay an average of $470,000, according to a list of buyers and prices. Down payments averaged $92,000.
KSV, the Toronto-based restructuring firm acting as the receiver, told condo buyers in October that their purchase agreements remain in full force and “there are no steps that you need to take in this regard at this time.”
The receiver will ask a judge Dec. 12 to authorize a sale of the Elevate property, as it is. If approved, it's anticipated a buyer might be found as early as mid-March in a sale handled by realty firm CBRE...
The Elevate condos construction site on Weber Street in Kitchener in October.
Boarding goes up at the stalled Elevate condo project on Weber Street East in Kitchener.
I'm usually not a fan of distance updates like this, but it shows scale when considering these 3 buildings (all about 35 to 40 floors) are nearly topped out and near each other in an already dense part of town.
Two of these buildings are condo towers, and one is rental A Busy Saturday by Draulerin Photographics, on Flickr A Busy Saturday by Draulerin Photographics, on Flickr
Whilst walking in northern Mississauga, I noticed a set of million dollar townhomes are to be built on Brittania, near Heartland.
It's a fairly central area, so it's disappointing to see such a low density project going here, but I also know its the only realistic thing to build here. The Walk North by Draulerin Photographics, on Flickr The Walk North by Draulerin Photographics, on Flickr
EDIT: So this site, further north, and in an existing subdivision, is going to also consist of ground floor condos and townhouses, but only 19 altogether
This is taken from the back of the property, which backs onto a public trail The Walk North by Draulerin Photographics, on Flickr
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2444 Yonge (rental project of two towers) continues to work through excavation, although I took these before the snow started so the site may take a little time as winter finally comes to the area. 2444 Yonge by Draulerin Photographics, on Flickr 2444 Yonge by Draulerin Photographics, on Flickr
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