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RSS FeedsThey call it `The Well.` A look at the massive hole at Spadina and Front
(The Star Environment)

 
 

20 october 2018 19:20:01

 
They call it `The Well.` A look at the massive hole at Spadina and Front
(The Star Environment)
 


You wouldn’t want to fall down this Well.There’s a wide and enormously deep, abyss-like hole — 20 metres down — at the corner of Spadina Ave. and Front St. where a massive construction project is going on. When it’s completed, the mixed-use development will have as many as 20,000 people living, working and shopping on the property on any given day, say those close to the project.The development is called The Well, part play on words from its marketing slogan — eat, shop, live, work, and play well — and part reference to Wellington St. W., at the north side of the development.The development promises 1.1 million square feet of office space, and 500,000 square feet of retail and food services.The Well’s website bills it as the “most ambitious mixed-used endeavour in Canada.” In terms of the size of the excavation site, Dan Nicholson, a senior city of Toronto planner, said he can’t confirm how The Well ranks compared to other large digs from Toronto’s past — the city doesn’t officially track that metric — but he did say it isn’t common to see a hole that large at a city construction site.The gaping hole at the 7.8-acre site is a result of the fact that the parking levels and loading areas for the towers are being constructed at the same time — rather than in stages, as commonly done in most other developments.“One of the things we believe makes this project work from a design aspect, is the fact we’re putting all the parking and all the loading below grade. In order to make that efficient and work for the entire project, it’s our belief it all has to be done at the same time,” says Andrew Duncan, senior vice-president, development for RioCan, the developer.Seven buildings ranging in height from 13 storeys to 45 storeys are slated for the former Globe and Mail site bounded by Spadina Ave. to the east, Draper St. to the west, Front St. to the ...


 
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