TORONTO | Aura | 272 M / 893 FT | 78 FLOORS
 

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http://www.collegeparkcondos.com/

-75 stories

-950+ condo units

-Will fill last parking lot on Yonge Street between Front Street and Church/Davenport Streets (about 2 miles). Will also fill last gap in retail streetwall over this stretch.

-190,000 square feet of retail on lower levels will be connected with existing College Park mall (180,000 square feet retail). Bed Bath & Beyond occupy the entire second floor (50,000 square feet) with it's first Canadian store.

-direct underground subway access through existing College Park complex

-Prices from the 470,000s to over 16 million

theirs a bed bath and beyond in Edmonton that's either already open or opening soon.

Do we know when this one might get approved/start construction?

That LED lighting looks beautiful! :worship:

In 2 months.

What? Who changed my title, lol?

It's AURA, not AURORA. Please change it back.

Here's the parking lot it will be replacing courtesty "photopia" on flickr. You can see the "Prime Retail Space for Lease sign". This is just a few hundred feet north of the still-new Toronto Life Square (360,000 square feet of retail in a 500,000 square foot building).

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yes, finally a thread for this project!!!! its so awesome :banana:

so when might this start construction, whats an estimated time? bc i definately hope this one gets underway!

The building has sold well from what we have heard, but given the economy the way it is, financing is still going to be difficult. There are reports it will begin soon, but most times these dates keep getting pushed back. We'll see what happens come August.

... a couple more days ...

Nice...

Thread title still needs to be changed. Aura,827 Ft., 252.1 M

Is this still coming along? Haven't heard anything about this is ages.

On SSC, it appears that there is equipment on site!

Nice! Well...this, along with the "L" if it is indeed moving forward, will help sustain Toronto's massive skyscraper/density buildup that we've been seeing the past decade or so...even after Ritz, Trump , Four Seasons etc. are complete :)

Not only that, but this needs to be moved to "Construction". Lots of activity. From yesterday: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ethervizion/4266937415/

Moving it to U/C. . . anyone have a source for the height figures?

Aurora at College Park... LEGENDARY :haha: :banana:

I just discovered this thread! SICK! :banana:

I heard the billboards have been taken down today so we are ready to start digging!

I can't believe this thread has no recent pics!!!

photo by Geekaroo on UT:

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And here's a sweet timelapse of the billboards being taken down by ethervizion on UT:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ethervizion/4266937415/


sweeeeet!

Can someone please change the name to Aura? It's been mentioned a few times already. Thanks.

Title of the thread needs to be changed to Aura.......

Yeah... Its a no brainer to give the building the respect it deserves :tup:

It's canada's largest condo ever! (and 2nd tallest)

Wow! Now this is a nice building. Prob. my favorite from TO at the moment.

I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOO HAPPY to see this one finally and actually commence construction!!! :D

Second tallest?


I never realized how huge the planned retail area is. Aura qualifies as mixed- use.

Nice pic, the only bad thing about this project is that I usually get a cheap room by using Priceline across the street at the Delta Chelsea... And this building will block my view if I have a north facing room! :)

But its worth blocking, very nice building. I love the design.

Second tallest building under construction in Toronto right now, perhaps....

Aura is going to be awesome watch as it goes up. Is it actually "officially" under construction now?

It's hard to see from the rendering, but it seems that it has a slanted roof.
Beside that, it reminds me of Melbourne's Eureka.

My grandma reserved unit before and to avoid seeing the delta, you had to be at least 25 or more floors up (for south facing) to get a a good view!

Delta Chelsea = :yuck:
Aura = :worship:

Aura's roof IS slanted... actually there are 2 slants!

Photo of the model by me (taken a long time ago):

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2725/...58e62407_b.jpg


oh ya! i forgot... Aura is mixed use...

I have faith that this building will bring a heck of alotta life to that intersection!


still Aurora at college park?... REALLY?! :yuck:


***I just realized... My biggest regret is not stepping foot on that lot before it commenced construction... It would have been soo EPIC!... damn...

Thanks for posting the model.
Nice top !

F-ing nimby.

I really like how this building complements the shops of college park!

If you look at the upper level of the podium, the roof matches the roof of College Park next door...

Buildings these days should be designed that way :cheers: !

Still Aurora?

This is my new favourite Toronto project.

Geez, never even noticed this thread until I actually looked for it today after seeing it u/c yesterday. I need to go downtown more often!

Who names a condo after a crappy suburb anyway? :P

true enough... glad it's Aura now!!!

*btw: brilliant avatar Tony!!! I agree with it 100% :cheers: !

"protecting the lines"
Toronto
College Park
Aura
Jan-16-10

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"laying pipe into it"

Toronto
College Park

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Rebuilding Yonge Street

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Awesome construction work at the site!

The site has transformed from empty parking lot to construction site SOOO fast!

it seems like just yesterday that it was still a parking lot!

So long as the weather remains nice im pretty sure construction will continue at a nice clip....

This will probably be a very deep dig, along the lines of Shangri La and ROCP 1/2....

This should proceed quite fast as it seems only half the site with be excavated at a time with the College Park loading dock in the middle

the site looks MUCH bigger depending on where you're standing... Like from Yonge/Gerard... the site looks huge! but from the air, the site actually isn't out of the ordinary... This building looks really BIG from the renders (chunky, tall)... either way, it's gonna be sweet!

excavating will take a while... by this time next year we'll be thinking about foundation work and moving up! (i would expect it to reach ground level in a little under 2 years.. 1 year for groundbreaking, 1 year to reach the surface)

correct me if i am wrong :)

If the site is twice as big as we thought, then this one will take a while to excavate, then coupled with the depths they'll have to dig to reach the foundation base...

This building will be a beast...

The site is so big that I would easily be willing to bet that it will be at least a year easy before this one even reaches street level. Anyway I'm just grateful to see that this project has finally commenced! In the meantime we can see how much soil and ground up shitty blacktop gets dug out at the site. Also, we can watch the other big hitters including Trump, Shangri-La, and the Four Seasons continue construction! :D

I'd say much more than a year... groundbreaking alone will take some time and considering how big the podium/retail space is, it should be some time...

Anyone suspect how many cranes we might see?... i would thing there would be 1 crane for the podium and 1 crane for the tower... then midway in construction they would remove the lower crane... i dunno :shrug: ...

The overall site is large however, if they take a two step approach as in building up on side with a temporary ramp, remove the existing ramp and build up the other side it won't take as long to build up to grade.

In any case, I doubt it will take a full year to excavate the pit. Shangri-la didn't and this one isn't nearly as deep. They likely won't have to blast through shale either.

Fair enough :)

I just can't wait for this thing to go down then up! (that sounds really dirty for some reason :haha: !)

The final project will take a while though... we can expect 3-4 years for this one...

yikes, one year to get down, and another year to get back up....

thank goodness for Trump, Shangri La, and Four Seasons to keep us occupied until this one gets interesting.

probably a year and a half till it reaches ground level!...

By then, Trump should be topped off, FS should also be topped off, and shangri-la could be topped off too!

And don't forget, we also have Ice, U, Burano, et al, to keep us occupied.

yup... Burano for sure...

but it'll still be a while for the other guys to excavate then reach the surface.. but at least we'll have many projects a go!