45 Bay Street Opens to Design Competition

45 Bay Street Opens to Design Competition

Ivanahoe Cambrige, and SITQ that are the property managers of the large lot known to Torontoians as 45 Bay next to Union Station and Air Canada Centre, have stated an interest in having a design competition for the tower which is curretly slated for 245 meters in height. I know for a fact, that the city will likely require whatever building that is built here to have a bus terminal within the lower floors of the tower, to relieve the temporary GO Bus depot just north of this lot. This project, along with the other office and condo towers, is part of a projected "Next Wave" of massive Supertall and Megatall skyscraper development that has taken hold in Toronto. Just as we are getting use to 60 floor and 70 floor towers, we are hearing word of 80 floors towers, 90 floor towers, and 100 floor towers. Toronto has reached the next stage of Global City Evolution, and even the Financial Crisis, couldn't stop our rise. However some may state that it is the very Financial Crisis, that has caused this latest wave of investment and cash inflows into Toronto as the world seeks the only safe place to hold it's money as the Americans and Europeans fell on their faces during the Mortgage Meltdown.

Well let's see, you never know, once the world economy gets back on it's feet, Toronto might go back to the small provincial farming town it was before this latest blast of skyscraper construction.

45 Bay Street Development Getting Hot Again (Supertall Potential?)

Montreal Gazette is reporting that 45 Bay Street is Getting Hot, Again..


Well, just when you thought, it couldn't get any hotter, another prime development spot in Toronto is getting some attention. Well of course, I'm talking about 45 Bay Street, the most coveted spot of undeveloped real estate in the heart of the Financial District and just south of Union Station, and the railway tracks.

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 Based on my assessment of the property and 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 square feet of retail and residential space would put the project into the 250 meter to 320 meter range. This project will be huge, and reach for the skys... as the Vice-Chairman calls the spot "A Fabulous piece of dirt"

Well, I couldn't have said it any better myself....


Newslink from Montreal Gazette

In recent months, the real-estate arm of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec has been discreetly promoting the site at 45 Bay St. to industry, fueling speculation that a mixed commercial project with more than one million square feet of office space could be in the works for 2017.
“They’re more active on the site than they’ve been in years,” one real-estate source said.
Located north of the Gardiner Expressway and just east of the Air Canada Centre, the estimated 100,000-square-foot site is significant because it’s one of Toronto’s last remaining large parcels of developable land downtown.
“That is a fabulous piece of dirt,” said John O’Bryan, vice-chairman of CBRE Ltd., Canada.
The site is especially important for Ivanhoe Cambridge, which despite having a growing portfolio in major cities like Paris and London, lacks a strong presence in Canada’s largest real-estate market.
“In Toronto, we have yet to really penetrate the market in a significant way,” acknowledged Bill Tresham, Ivanhoe Cambridge’s president of global investments, in a publication by the Canadian offices of global tax and advisory services firm Ernst & Young.
In the publication, Tresham said Ivanhoe Cambridge’s plan is to develop 45 Bay St. as a “one- to 2-million-square-foot office complex, perhaps with retail and multi-family components.”

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45 Bay Street and Union Station

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