SOHO Italia [500 Preston St] | 96m | 30 fl | Completed - Page 19

cityguy · #**361** Posted **Jan 4, 2013, 1:33 PM**

Any idea when sales will start?

waterloowarrior · #**362** Posted **Apr 2, 2013, 3:21 AM**

Also significant is the sale of 488 &
490 Preston Street by 2110801
Ontario Inc to 486 Preston Ltd for
$3,300,000 or $265/sf. The property
is proposed to be developed with a
thirty storey, 254 unit condominium
building with ground floor
commercial uses.
http://www.juteaujohnsoncomba.com/ne...uary_Sales.pdf

waterloowarrior · #**363** Posted **Apr 19, 2013, 5:17 PM**

Mastercraft Starwood now proposing to go back to a 35 floor tower
http://t.co/YYgsJg1L4o

Postmaster · #**364** Posted **Apr 19, 2013, 5:55 PM**

As close to a height contest as Ottawa has ever had. Precedents can be good when you are behind the times.

Harley613 · #**365** Posted **Apr 19, 2013, 5:56 PM**

amazed it took so long for that to happen! saw it coming from a month away!

kevinbottawa · #**366** Posted **Apr 19, 2013, 5:59 PM**

What a beautiful building! I prefer this design to the Claridge Icon one. I could stare at this building for hours.

K-133 · #**367** Posted **Apr 19, 2013, 6:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by kevinbottawa

What a beautiful building! I prefer this design to the Claridge Icon one. I could stare at this building for hours.

Or the other SoHo buildings...

McC · #**368** Posted **Apr 19, 2013, 7:07 PM**

just so everyone's clear, the reason this building got shorter in the approvals was the removal of the 5 storeys of above-ground parking that had no good reason to be there. Anyway, those curves could be sexy (and more so than the Icon, which I don't love); but that one little pic from that angle isn't a lot to go on.

YOWflier · #**369** Posted **Apr 19, 2013, 7:41 PM**

Very nice. It looks "Aqua"-esque (Chicago).

J.OT13 · #**370** Posted **Apr 19, 2013, 9:34 PM**

I really like this design and I am also a fan of Icon and the Dow Honda site, but won't this end up an overkill of curvy towers/balconies? As for height, 35 and 45 floors gives us some good variation, but if Dow Honda, and maybe even whatever gets built on the CIBC site, is approved at 45-48, it will again just be multiple buildings of the same height. Seems we can't have variety anywhere in this city.

McC · #**371** Posted **Apr 20, 2013, 12:52 AM**

Darwin pours some cold water: http://www.westsideaction.com/soho-i...ave-some-more/

rocketphish · #**372** Posted **Apr 20, 2013, 2:24 AM**

Now this is the beautiful, curvaceous, design that the Icon tried for and failed miserably to achieve. I like it!

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Originally Posted by waterloowarrior

JackBauer24 · #**373** Posted **Apr 21, 2013, 5:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by rocketphish

Now this is the beautiful, curvaceous, design that the Icon tried for and failed miserably to achieve. I like it!

Completely in 100% agreement.

I'd love to know the cost difference in construction and design to create these rounded balconies vesus the typical balcony designs we usually see. I can't imagine it's that much more expensive.

brentgaulois · #**374** Posted **May 25, 2013, 9:32 PM**

I went to visit them today, and they're sales centre is not set up yet because they're waiting to get new renderings and approval, but I believe they said it would be completed by 2017-18, with retail on the first 6 stories (because the current, trashy building beside it is government-owned and won't be demolished, so they didn't want people to have views of it).

The curvature will be the balconies, though, but the units are pretty much designed. You can get floorplans from some of the lower floors.

They should be launching a proper sales centre with model hopefully by June, if I recall correctly.

amanfromnowhere · #**375** Posted **May 30, 2013, 1:41 PM**

from their facebook:

kevinbottawa · #**376** Posted **Jul 16, 2013, 6:09 PM**

Tweet from Peter Kovessy:

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Peter Kovessy ‏@peterkovessy: Mastercraft Starwood files rezoning app for 36 storeys @ 500 Preston. #Ottcity OK'd 30 floors in 2012; developer went to OMB #ottawa #ottbiz

JackBauer24 · #**377** Posted **Jul 16, 2013, 8:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by kevinbottawa

Tweet from Peter Kovessy:

Based on the height of their cross-the-street neighbour - I'd say a 6 floor increase isn't going to be too hard to get.

trhgr · #**378** Posted **Jul 16, 2013, 8:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by JackBauer24

Based on the height of their cross-the-street neighbour - I'd say a 6 floor increase isn't going to be too hard to get.

It shouldn't be.
Anybody got any news from the Dow Honda project for 2x48 storey towers by Richcraft?

OTSkyline · #**379** Posted **Jul 22, 2013, 3:48 PM**

Any news about this one? When will they know if the extra height is approved? Have sales begun?

Urbanarchit · #**380** Posted **Jul 22, 2013, 5:46 PM**

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