It's so hard to make out. The top floor is a jungle of walls. Maybe more of a conference centre + sleeping area than a billionaire's playground.
I was in Manhattan this year. Billionaire's Row is Billionaire's Row. There's much better value than in Toronto. The mid range are similarly priced and New Yorkers get paid on average more than here. (USD and CAD therefore irrelevant) Of course, we have our provincial healthcare but it's not as storied as it was 25 years ago.
Wish Mizrahi could purchase and demolish H&M/Scotiabank to use as a staging site to get this thing built faster. Then, perhaps build a smaller development in a different style afterwards.
There must be alternatives to closing off Bloor for a pump truck or spending hundreds of millions on creating a staging area. There has been plenty of downtown developments that had no on site staging and weren't allowed to create space in the public boulevard, dealt with traffic and, truck restrictions. The only reason I can see the ground floor not being used for staging is some sort of contractual delivery obligations. At this pace, the condo purchase agreements have to be in jeopardy too if they have to block of Bloor for concrete pours.
Another opportunity would have been to take down the facade and build a staging area under the power plant. I don't think what has been built would allow it now.
The photos are great. I've heard it mentioned they are starting the residential floors. I see two more floors until the tower reaches the top floor of the elevator core.
They will probably switch to a stationary pump that will have the concrete ascend the centre of the tower. The Burj was able to pump concrete over 600m up.
There is a tower mounted concrete pump on the left of the picture. That will continue to be moved up as the floors rise.
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Not being in Toronto IDK, I suspect it is just off to the left in those images hidden behind Number One Bloor.
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