A new titan beginning to ascend into Toronto's skyline is set to become one of the city's tallest buildings, the culmination of a long road fraught w…
, the culmination of a long road fraught with years of planning, the demise of an established development firm, even more years of stagnation, and even an order from the City to halt construction.
The project has gone through a series of high-profile ups and downs since it was first proposed in 2017, regularly making headlines for its trials and tribulations along the way.known as YSL Residences in 2017, the project got underway in 2019 before encountering some significant challenges that would ultimately derail it by years., and construction on the project was halted, leaving an abandoned pit filled with stagnant water in the heart of downtown.
Once that hurdle was cleared, it was back to business as usual on the busy construction site, and crews were once again hard at work.behind the preserved facades of the Gerrard Building at 385-391 Yonge, the Richard S. Williams Block at 363-365 Yonge, 367 Yonge, and the former Yonge Street Mission building.The tower's design by skyscraper specialists Kohn Pederson Fox, working with local firm architects—Alliance, features a wedge-shaped tower sprouting from a colossal rectilinear base.
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