171 Front Data Centre - Resubmitted to City of Toronto Planning - In Connection With Metrolinx

The 171 Front Street Data Center Tower has been resubmitted to City planning, along with a request for the building permit, in connection not only with the office tower, but with the skywalk and Metrolinx which hopes to use the skywalk portion of the facility as a loading way for the new Airport Express Line to Union Station and the Toronto Airport.

171 Front Street Office Tower - Application Resubmitted

Application: Zoning Review Status: Not Started

Location: 171 FRONT ST W
TORONTO ON

Ward 20: Trinity-Spadina

Application#: 13 229613 ZPR 00 ZR Accepted Date: Sep 3, 2013

Project: Non-Residential Building New Building

Description: Proposal to remove the western portion of the existing skywalk building and construct a new 46 storey office building. Proposal also includes the removal of the existing glass barrel vault at the eastern portion of the skywalk and construct new roof and wall enclosure along with a new raised exterior plaza over station street and interior renovations at 20 York St.



A New Proposal Has Arisen for 171 Front Street (Data Centre)

Check out the New Proposal for 171 Front Street. Looks pretty good, and should be right at home among the coming redevelopment proposals along the Strip on Bremner and Front Street. This proposal is between the Citi-Group Place Tower and the Intercontinental Hotel section of the Metro Convention Centre. It is used as a office for Data Servers, and harddrive equipment for Telecommunications companies. I never knew there was a market for rentals of space, where you can store your computer, but if you have this in mind for your business, these are the guys you need to get in touch with. Apparently it's big business.

Factoring The Toronto Economic Forecast 

2013What does the future hold for Toronto's Economy in the 2013 year? I'm doing a forecast based on a number of economic variables, to determine performance of our diversified economy and any external and internal impacts that might influence growth in the Golden Horseshoe Region (GTA). The factors that seem to have the most impact on Toronto is the Global Financial Markets, and Global Currency Markets, outside of that internal factors that determine the growth of the region are heavily tied to our skyscraper and construction industries now amounting to some 7% of Canadian GDP. And construction itself is tied to macro-economic factors such as National and Global Interest rates, or cost of money. So, one by one, we will factor each of these impacts on the Toronto Economy.