[CaptainKirk]

Regarding phasing: no phasing of the project is taking place. A second crane is going up in the next week or two, east of the current tall crane. He says he will build a total of 3 buildings at once.

Five stories of lofts are being added to the top of the existing Revenue Canada building at Main and Caroline.

A 25-storey glass and steel condo tower will be built on the east side of the the Revenue Canada building.

A 17-storey Hilton Homewood Suites will be built on the sliver of land at George and Bay.

... there will be street-level retail space along George in every building.

There will also be some retail facing Main - but obviously less, due to the fact it's a freeway.

Preliminary ideas include possibly a restaurant in the ground floor of the Revenue Canada Building facing Main, and an LCBO or other larger format store facing Main. Smaller retail, pubs, patios etc.... will be the norm on George in an attempt to link Hess to Bay.

Vranich spoke with the city about cobblestoning George right to Bay, but they said they will wait until all of his construction is done and then consider it.

http://www.raisethehammer.org/blog/2...wn_development