Waterfront Toronto releases 2015 Pan Am Games plans

Written by Derek Flack

In a press release issued earlier today, Waterfront Toronto released some of its plans for the Athletes’ Village at the 2015 Pan Am Games, including renderings of what the site is supposed to look like when it’s all said and done. To be built on the West Don Lands — the area nestled between the Port Lands, Corktown and the southern terminus of the Don Valley Parkway — the project will provide temporary housing for 10,000 participants in the Games before eventually taking shape as mixed-used community.

Included in the renderings below is a peek at some of the amenities that will become part of what some day might become a neighbourhood. There will be a massive, 82,000 square-foot YMCA (which will be used as a training facility throughout the Games), a George Brown student residence, 787 units of what’s termed market housing (5 per cent of which will be reserved for affordable ownership), and 253 units of affordable rental housing.

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Queen Street Market still awaits renewal as the Grove

The beautiful but mostly empty Queen West Market, across from the MuchMusic building will soon be transformed into a healthy food court, but not as soon as originally planned. The Grove, as it will be called, was initially scheduled to open by the end of 2011. But delays in design and planning have set the grand opening back until April of this year, says Lisa Borden, a founding partner of establishment.

The historic market space will be filled with a variety of food alternatives in a neighbourhood that is currently mainly populated by either sit-down restaurants or junky fast food like Pizza Pizza and Subway. “I want a group of ten coworkers to be able to walk in to The Grove and realize they never have to fight about where to eat lunch again because it has something for everyone,” says Borden.

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Midtown Toronto – December Office Space 2011

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Address	Available Space (sf)	Asking Gross Rental Rate (psf)	Asking Monthly Rate
1 Eglinton Ave E	1,839	$33.60	$5,149.20
1 St. Clair Ave W	3,100	$32.62	$8,426.83
1 St. Clair Ave W	1,514	$32.62	$4,115.56
110 Eglinton Ave E	1,576	$31.16	$4,092.35
111 Eglinton Ave E	2,646	$29.15	$6,427.58
112 Eglinton Ave E	2,465	$29.00	$5,957.08
113 Eglinton Ave E	1,859	$31.04	$4,808.61
1650 Yonge Street	1,550	$29.00	$3,745.83
1881 Yonge Street	1,577	$35.66	$4,686.32
1992 Yonge Street	2,108	$24.95	$4,382.88
2 St. Clair Ave E	2,404	$37.16	$7,444.39
3 St. Clair Ave E	2,046	$41.16	$7,017.78
4 St. Clair Ave E	2,470	$41.04	$8,447.40
20 Eglinton Ave W	2,265	$38.95	$7,351.81
21 St. Clair Ave E	1,942	$33.48	$5,418.18
22 St. Clair Ave E	3,337	$33.48	$9,310.23
2190 Yonge Street	1,765	$36.35	$5,346.48
22 St. Clair Ave E	1,933	$47.50	$7,651.46
2200 Yonge Street	2,115	$36.99	$6,519.49
2221 Yonge Street	1,526	$28.67	$3,645.87
30 St. Clair Ave W	1,501	$40.84	$5,108.40
3080 Yonge Street	1,650	$34.48	$4,741.00
36 Eglinton Ave W	3,074	$29.78	$7,628.64
40 Eglinton Ave E	2,524	$32.97	$6,934.69
41 Eglinton Ave E	1,808	$32.97	$4,967.48
40 St. Clair Ave W	2,352	$35.14	$6,887.44
4141 Yonge Street	1,544	$31.86	$4,099.32
45 Sheppard Ave E	1,523	$33.45	$4,245.36
46 Sheppard Ave E	3,371	$33.45	$9,396.66
4576 Yonge Street	2,795	$33.76	$7,863.27
4576 Yonge Street	1,535	$33.76	$4,318.47
4950 Yonge Street	2,866	$39.50	$9,433.92
4950 Yonge Street	1,864	$39.50	$6,135.67
5001 Yonge Street	2,894	$36.28	$8,749.53
5160 Yonge Street	2,865	$39.54	$9,440.18
55 St. Clair Ave W	2,745	$39.01	$8,923.54
5775 Yonge Street	1,551	$36.41	$4,705.99
5775 Yonge Street	3,426	$36.41	$10,395.06
60 St. Clair Ave E	3,389	$27.30	$7,709.98
90 Eglinton Ave E	2,097	$35.90	$6,273.53

350 Bay Street – video tour – great little office space with furniture available Downtown Toronto

Yonge and Sheppard Office Space Toronto – December 2011

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Address	Available Space (sf)	Asking Gross Rental Rate (psf)	Asking Monthly Rate
1 Eglinton Ave E	1,839	$33.60	$5,149.20
1 St. Clair Ave W	3,100	$32.62	$8,426.83
1 St. Clair Ave W	1,514	$32.62	$4,115.56
110 Eglinton Ave E	1,576	$31.16	$4,092.35
111 Eglinton Ave E	2,646	$29.15	$6,427.58
112 Eglinton Ave E	2,465	$29.00	$5,957.08
113 Eglinton Ave E	1,859	$31.04	$4,808.61
1650 Yonge Street	1,550	$29.00	$3,745.83
1881 Yonge Street	1,577	$35.66	$4,686.32
1992 Yonge Street	2,108	$24.95	$4,382.88
2 St. Clair Ave E	2,404	$37.16	$7,444.39
3 St. Clair Ave E	2,046	$41.16	$7,017.78
4 St. Clair Ave E	2,470	$41.04	$8,447.40
20 Eglinton Ave W	2,265	$38.95	$7,351.81
21 St. Clair Ave E	1,942	$33.48	$5,418.18
22 St. Clair Ave E	3,337	$33.48	$9,310.23
2190 Yonge Street	1,765	$36.35	$5,346.48
22 St. Clair Ave E	1,933	$47.50	$7,651.46
2200 Yonge Street	2,115	$36.99	$6,519.49
2221 Yonge Street	1,526	$28.67	$3,645.87
30 St. Clair Ave W	1,501	$40.84	$5,108.40
3080 Yonge Street	1,650	$34.48	$4,741.00
36 Eglinton Ave W	3,074	$29.78	$7,628.64
40 Eglinton Ave E	2,524	$32.97	$6,934.69
41 Eglinton Ave E	1,808	$32.97	$4,967.48
40 St. Clair Ave W	2,352	$35.14	$6,887.44
4141 Yonge Street	1,544	$31.86	$4,099.32
45 Sheppard Ave E	1,523	$33.45	$4,245.36
46 Sheppard Ave E	3,371	$33.45	$9,396.66
4576 Yonge Street	2,795	$33.76	$7,863.27
4576 Yonge Street	1,535	$33.76	$4,318.47
4950 Yonge Street	2,866	$39.50	$9,433.92
4950 Yonge Street	1,864	$39.50	$6,135.67
5001 Yonge Street	2,894	$36.28	$8,749.53
5160 Yonge Street	2,865	$39.54	$9,440.18
55 St. Clair Ave W	2,745	$39.01	$8,923.54
5775 Yonge Street	1,551	$36.41	$4,705.99
5775 Yonge Street	3,426	$36.41	$10,395.06
60 St. Clair Ave E	3,389	$27.30	$7,709.98
90 Eglinton Ave E	2,097	$35.90	$6,273.53

Ashlar Urban Realty – Toronto #CRE Listings – November 2011

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10 Reasons to lease an entirely serviced office

Neo Solar from Ben Lean on Vimeo.

What are your reasons for renting a serviced office? You might not be certain correct now, but a few of the subsequent to reasons might allure to you. These are 10 of the tip reasons many other companies have taken the step to lease an office entirely serviced.

1. The business is flourishing fast, and it no longer creates clarity to keep working out of a home or other trickery existing for free. Unfortunately, it is moreover as well shortly to execute to a long tenure let lease for an office space. The adjustable renting conditions of a serviced office is the best fit.

2. The business is relocating from one city, state or nation to another. Temporary office space is indispensable whilst explorations in to the new area are achieved and the preference to pierce in to that area is completely set in stone. It creates no clarity to pointer a long lease when the expect town of operations could potentially change as skeleton are ironed out.

3. The business is small, but needs access to costly apparatus to make sure every day operations run smoother. Many serviced offices enable businesses to share equipment, so any business does not have to buy it on their own.

4. The business is a new start-up, and space is indispensable but presumably not permanently. It is always dangerous starting up something brand new with paltry funding, so it usually creates clarity to keep the long tenure commitments as low as possible.

5. The business is established, tiny to intermediate in size, and not to the indicate of employing organizational and technical encouragement to the budget. Since a serviced office gives the business a few use of organizational support, the business can function uniformly without putting out an additional amount on employing that additional personnel.

6. The business is sepulchral suddenly fast, and the office space already rented will not grip all of the employees being hired. In this case, the firm will typically put the spill in to a serviced office space, just until they can obtain out of their stream undertaking and find a incomparable space to henceforth lease or purchase.

7. The business has already leased long tenure with a new office space, or has potentially purchased new space, but it is not ready at the time the lease on the aged space is up. In demand to keep business working and employees protected whilst the new space is put together, a proxy let is necessary.

8. The business is tiny or intermediate in size, but there is a need for additional office space for a since project. This might be something long tenure or partial term, but the space will not always be needed, so it creates no clarity to buy or lease long term.

9. The business is considerable and is exploring the choice of gap up a new section or department. Until the thought is entirely invested and ready to go completely, they might lease a serviced office space to residence that probable section or department. Eventually, that space will be scrapped with the division, or fused in to the company.

10. The business is just starting up and the owners are not entirely certain how to go about working an office space. They can use a serviced office as a learning experience.

All of these situations are temporary, but they moreover have an evident need that the serviced office space can fill. Do you pick out with any of these reasons? If so, it might be your time to take up residence in serviced space.

Signnow.com – The Evolution of the Real Estate Offer Online

I’m excited to try this out! Wonder who my first client will be to sign on their smartphone!
https://signnow.com

If you need to sign a legal document while away from your home or office you can use free webapp SignNow to upload a pdf of the document, sign the document electronically, and email it to wherever it needs to go, all without having to pay or register with SignNow. Lifehacker

Avison Young Commercial Real Estate Newsletter – Fall / Winter 2011

The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) I will benefit tremendously from hosting the 2015 Pan/Parapan American (Pan Am) Games. The event will bring more than 10,000 members of the international athletic community and 250000 tourists to the city for the duration of the Games, while generating more than 15,000 Jobs. Events will be held across and beyond the GTA, in an area ranging from Niagara Falls to Barrie, resulting in more than 25 regional infrastructure, construction and renovation projects. In Toronto, development has begun in earnest.  In the former industrial area known as the West Don Lands, the future site of the Athletes Village. By integrating the Athletes Village into the existing plan for the district, revitalization will begin in the West Don Lands wars ahead of schedule.

The West Don Lands area is just east of downtown, on the west bank of the Don River along the shore of Lake Ontario. First developed as a residential area in the 1830s, the district was soon overtaken by Industry, which predominated until many companies closed or relocated to the suburbs, beginning in the 1970s.The land was expropriated by the province in 1987, with a plan to rehabilitate the area with the construction of a community called Ataratiri, but redevelopment was abandoned in 1992 due to the high cost of addressing site remediation issues. Since the n, the West Don Lands have sat vacant.

Over the past decade, a new vision for these old industrial lands has been created. The plan calls for nearly 6,030 residential u nits, employment and commercial space,23 acres of parks and green space, schools, and integration with existing public-transit routes. Simply overcoming environmental hurdles, including a century worth of soil contamination and the site’s location on the flood plain of the Don River, has been an enormous achievement.

The integration of the 2015 Pan Am Games Athletes Village has shifted the West Don Lands redevelopment into high gear, bringing forward the previously-announced completion date of 2019 by four years. The Athletes Village portion of the development— consisting of varying high-rise and low-rise structures on pedestrian-friendly streets —will comprise more than half of the total construction planned for the West Don Lands, and will be converted after the Games into housing and commercial space, forming a major part of the originally envisioned mixed-use neighbourhood.

At the end of September, it was announced that a consortium of builders and architects known as Dundee Kilmer Development Ltd. has been selected to design, build and finance construction of the Athletes Village.

Driven by the preparations for the Games, the West Don Lands area will come full circle, once again becoming a bustling residential and commercial neighbourhood on the doorstep of downtown.

Market Conditions in Canada – a CBRE perspective October 2011

I was unable to embed the audio on my site but here’s a link to the presentation.

John O’Bryan, Vice Chairman of CBRE Limited and Asieh Mansour, Head of Americas Research, discuss market conditions in Canada in light of recent weakening economic growth and market volatility in hte U.S. and the Eurozone.  The stability of Canada’s economy and commercial real estate sectors relative to other regions, and how it could benefit investors and occupiers.

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