[sisaacwork]

Did anyone ever find out if it's topping out at the original height or approved height increase? After article in the Star, there was some back and fourth on here as to what height but I don't remember hearing anything after as far as confirmation one way or the other.

I spoke with the reporter at the Star and a source from Skygrid recently. They are building to the original height (85st, 308.6m), I assume for cost control. Now to see who can eclipse First Canadian Place first..

 

[Koops65]

That would be severely disappointing...

 

[ProjectEnd]

He's probably thinking of St. Catharines and Niagara Falls. We used to be able to see the Skylon Tower from our balcony on a clear day, until they built Time and Space. We can still see that blocky Brock tower. And it's not quite Rochester, but on a really clear day we can see this, which is half way between Buffalo and Rochester.

Kintigh Generating Station - Wikipedia

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And all of this is just from the 16th floor. You should be able to see much more from the 91st!

Yeah, you can pretty clearly see stuff at Niagara Falls, Brock Tower, Hamilton etc. even from like 8-10 floors up.

 

[Riseth]

May 1, 2024

 

[kris]

On a perfect clear day my drone can see across Lake Ontario to US shoreline at 250m height.

 

[Benito]

Today.

 

[Lenser]

The One from early this afternoon.

 

[toronstruction]

Just noticed CTBUH changed The One's height back to the original (85 stories at 308m)

 

[Bjays92]

So they fought for all that extra height, only to build to what was originally approved anyways?

 

[3Dementia]

I'd venture it's unlikely that CTBUH has the Receiver here on speed dial ... who knows what's up with the change.

I would expect news of a change back to 85s to show up here at UT (with the best sleuths in the business ;-) before CTBUH.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

/sigh

 

[rbt]

So they fought for all that extra height, only to build to what was originally approved anyways?

Some might argue that spending that amount of time/money chasing after permits for few dozen additional $5M units while sales were slow and construction costs were escalating is an example of why they lost control of the building.

They're not the only company to gamble that post-pandemic things would go back to the way they were in 2019. The winners have been very flexible and constantly reevaluating their projects.

 

[Johnny Au]

Part 1 of 2 taken on May 1, 2024:

Spadina and Macpherson:

Bay and Cumberland:

Balmuto Side:

Back Alley:

Bloor Side:

 

[OpenClosed]

Just noticed CTBUH changed The One's height back to the original (85 stories at 308m)
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Does that mean that it's 100% sure though? Wouldn't the developers announce it? If it's actually back to it's original height I can't say I'm not disappointed but

 

[sisaacwork]

Does that mean that it's 100% sure though? Wouldn't the developers announce it? If it's actually back to it's original height I can't say I'm not disappointed but

No announcement yet, but that height is what the new project team is going with for now, and they were at least tacitly comfortable with the Star reporting from what I ascertained. That was enough to change the height on the CTBUH database in tandem with communication from Skygrid. It's a slow-moving project, so perhaps if market conditions improve before topping out, they may revert to the approved height. Nonetheless, they are quietly proceeding with the original height for the time being