Recent content by maestro

LOL at 2030 with 3 years scheduled for construction. The duel courtyards are very compact for premium properties. Enough for drop offs but, not for waiting cars.

I get the idea of the studio with the bathroom in the middle to separate spaces. At 340 square feet, you better be really, really thin and have never felt claustrophobic. Feign affordability. Terrible precedence as this is exactly how it started in Toronto. The layouts and kitchens are what you...

They may still fix the circle panels that aren't bookmatched. These finer details which the average plebeian doesn't see are the difference between great and average. Average is sadly good enough for top 3 in office conversions

You mention how cost of living is ridiculously high in Toronto from stagnant wages, increased housing costs, increased taxes and service fees and a deterioration of services provided through overcrowding. I agree with Calgary's gravitational pull with lower costs and higher wages on migration...

Looks like a miniature Vegas hotel pool with 8 cabanas at $1000 to $1500 a day each and non guests paying an entrance fee of $25.

I was clarifying a post from last week that had people confused. The near supertall comments since then changed my mind that Truman wasn't just yanking our chains. I've been posting on urbantoronto many years before they introduced the pleasures of skyrise. I don't take anything developers say...

"Blue Sky Sao Paulo" Sao Paulo apartments are full or half floors vs micro airbnb units.

First thought was a porn studio setting up in an Airbnb than a Homer Simpson chugging beer. Balconies are common amenity space for a reason. A good board will have threatened the owner before they or their tenants could fill it.

The drawing I saw was from the working drawings. Telus Sky is taller than Brookfield Place by floor count and both of these proposed towers would be the tallest by floor count. Development media releases often interchange floor count with actual height. Tallest is a selling point. I'm leaning...

The residential floors are comparable to the ugly tower next to it. They don't look like office floor heights. The taller one could reach 900 feet. It doesn't come across as easy or likely. I thought about other developers and how they sold tallest towers and it quickly hit me.. It doesn't go...

Brookfield Place is actually shorter than 247 metres. Truman says they're both taller and the renderings comes across as 900 feet tall. The floor heights needed to reach 900 feet tall just don't make any sense; condo floors 15 feet tall and the ground floor would be 30 to 40 feet high...

New mid range hotels aren't going to disrupt the high end but new high end hotels could disrupt mid range hotels with existing high end hotels rebranding themselves. The prices for a hotel room are crazy high. That can be summarized as a lack of competitive supply. However, these investors are...

It's in the mayor's best interest to have 4500 more hotel rooms built in short order. I would guess the industry would have a very different opinion. It's more likely these three proposed hotels openings will cause other hotels to rebrand or close than just adding more high end rooms to the...

$1.2 billion. That's probably the value of everything Truman has under construction right now. Those will be some pricey condos. A joint partner has been revealed. https://louson.ca/residential/

I recall past Truman DPs having higher floor heights 3.25 * 61 residential floors which is about 198 metres. I get 30 metres each for both podium and penthouse. 255 to 265 metres