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Originally Posted by Chad Berry
And to all those forumers ridiculing the title, I said TORONTO because it's the only likely place to build a building of that size, it fits more naturally because of the surrounding 200+ buildings. Calgary may have a shot at this as well, but they need a larger skyline to balance it. And I highly doubt Montreal will build that high or vancouver. And I have no idea whatsoever why someone would suggest Edmonton????? Edmonton has a smaller skyline then Toronto's suburbs. Also, why was St.John's brought into this??? They have somewhere around 100,000 people, and that's the largest city in the entire province. They have no need for a building that size.
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Hmm, as one of those that took umbridge to your original focus on Toronto (and this from someone born and bred in the Smoke), the reasons for building a supertall DO exist in city's other than Toronto. These reasons are demand, zoning, constraints (land availability) plus hubris. While the concentration of these requirements is greatest in Toronto THEY DO EXIST ELSEWHERE! Missie,
the Falls (<< added as per above post), Calgary and others do have a chance to build a 300+M building before Toronto - perhaps the odds aren't high, but they are greater than zero.
BTW, symmetry of a skyline has NO BEARING on a developer building a supertall. They don't sit around a table planning to spend $500M just to balanace out a
nice skyline.
Again, as someone from Toronto, I was offended that initially it was felt that only Toronto should partake in this discussion. With the new thread title this now warrants inclusion in the Canada section.
PS. It the Oakridges, not Greenridges