The big black tower, said to be architect
Peter Clewes' homage to
Mies van der Rohe, is almost finished at Jarvis and Charles.
Built by
Great Gulf Homes, X is the first phase of a two-phase development, the second of which will rise on the site of the old headquarters for Pizza Pizza. Phase I, which begins occupying this summer and will be fully completed by the end of the year, is 44 storeys with 410 units. Construction started three years ago, after demolition of the vacant former police headquarters building was completed.
"It's the boundary line, if you will, between this rolling, bucolic road where it hits the city grid," says Great Gulf's director of marketing and acquisitions, Geoff Matthews, speaking of Mount Pleasant, at whose base X sits, across the street from the Rogers building, "and it lines up against Charles and Isabella, which are all becoming higher density streets."
With a total square footage of about 400,000, the building sold out, with prices in the mid-$400 psf range.
When completed, there will also be a sculpture by
Shayne Dark out front.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Geoff Matthews
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