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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

JW Hotel - conservative W Hotel - liberal Autograph Collection - independent

What's 70? 69 is sex.

There is nothing to hold Truman to that date and an earlier date always sounds better than a later date. This simply isn't far enough along to say it will start to respond to when will it start?

The market for units that can be added to the hotel pool crashed and burned in Ontario once investors got charged commercial tax rates. Vancouver's market is declining while Calgary's is rising. This is still a lot of higher end units to sell. Big step up from 30 storeys and 250 units.

Tons of people are moving to the city. There will be more people on the street in any case. These units aren't cheaper. They're just smaller. I don't care for them as they quickly grow beyond niche with Canada's population growth demographics.

Anything planned for those floor to ceiling windows? Peep show sitting out on the balcony.

I mean to come up with this design's vernacular doesn't require originality. There's existing inspirations all over the country. The setbacks on the sides take all the grace out of it. It looks clunky instead of vertical. DIALOG took a mid century minimalist vernacular and ruined it with...

76 units. Average is 5.5 units per floor. I haven't seen the units but, it feels like too many units for the function to punch above its weight.

Regardless how long the East Village is taking to be built out, it's a still a fraction of the time these buildings will be standing. Anything being built is shortsighted. It's not about personal design preference. It's complete indifference to design. That kinda hurts in a community like this...

This tower is too ugly to pass for gentrification. So much going on with the exterior and yet has zero flair.