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A view of Heinzman Place the remaining Maple Leaf Silo and the last of the Monarch Rd. pavement . Monarch Rd which is now all but gone used tothe main address for the milling firm that it received its name from, at the end of the roadd facing south to your was the repairs shop of the milling operations and to your left was DOMINION CORRUGATED PAPER.
Campbell Flour Mills Co.Ltd. 12 Monarch Rd.
Maple Leaf Milling Co.Ltd. (Monarch brand flour
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Henitzman Place crane activity Tuesday the 19th of July 2011.
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Recently the blog attended the topping off ceremony for the The Village by High Park condominium project, an event to celebrate both buildings reaching their final height by the placing of the last major structural concrete.
In these images you see the men and woman who are building the enjoying a meal to celebrate all of their excellent work.
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The Village by High Park condo is rising rapidly over the Junction and we can now see it peeking over the surrounding buildings from St. Clair to Glenlake.
Although the west tower has 9 floors to go we can get a sense of how massive this project of over 600 units really is. The West tower is at approximately the 14th floor of 23 and the East tower has almost topped out.
Post submitted by Martin L co-chair of the Junction Residents Association
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The blog asked David Wencer to write an article about the Nordheimer Piano & Music Co. As on the blogs tour of the The Village by High Park project provided by Deltera’s senior site superintendent Sean McCaffrey – seeing the artifacts of his families Nordheimer Piano factory greatly interests this author in learning more about the factory. Sean McCaffrey is a direct descendant of Samuel Nordheimer the owner of the Nordheimer Piano factory pictured
follows… Sean’s image with his kind permission for it to used here, and David’s article.
This portrait used to hang in his Glen Edyth estate at Davenport and Spadina. Provided for use in this post by Sean McCaffrey.
Nordheimer Piano & Music Co., began in Kingston, Ontario, when brothers Abraham and Samuel Nordheimer opened a piano dealership in 1842. A few years later they moved to Toronto, and quickly became one of the Dominion’s top dealers of sheet music world-class pianos. Starting in 1858, Nordheimer was Canada’s official seller of Steinway pianos, and the two remained associated with each into the 20th Century.
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Looking out of the/one of the retail spaces in the building
It’s the most obvious location for what type of retail operation? – a restaurant, a clothes cleaner, a convenience store, a flower store, a dollar store, a hobby store or art store. But someone or some corporate entity probably is planning on making a go the ground-floor space at the The Village by High Park, aka the old Canadian Tire Keele St site. what will/should it be?
As you may know, this tower is a condominium hybrid mix of affordable units and some retail built by Deltera Construction for the Options for Homes company. For the moment the space is undivided to offer flexibility with the leasing opportunities.
Is this where the chains stores such as Starbucks will place themselves in the Junction?
Below is an image of a similar type and size retail operation at the bottom of a condo development – gives you an idea of what retail along this stretch will look like.
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Well this is just as exciting to this author as all the other photos from the blogs tour of the Village by High Park development. In the photos below you are inside the election control and distribution rooms. These rooms are placed at the north west corner of the development at the south east corner of the Keele St underpass (subway).
Two cases to the right (at rear) are Toronto Hydro control switches
inside one of the step-down transformers
Distribution to units area
Individual control switches
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkTN88ANcUg
In this video Sean McCaffrey the senior site superintendent for Deltera speaks detailing the features of parts of the firefighters elevator system in the condominium development.
The above image shows the firefighters elevator system concrete forming on one floor.
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above looking out of the south west towards Keele St just south of Vine Ave
The Keele St Sidewalk
Directly above this text is an image of the new expanding sidewalk area that is being created by the The Village by High Park development, just look how much added space will add the walk space, – remember the city sidewalk in still on the other side of hoarding.
..a stop and talk sidewalk this will be – looking back over many images of area from the past indicates to this author that never before has the sidewalk area been as walkable as it will be now.
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this area with the placement of rebar is directly to the left when looking west to the image below which is another area to filled with rebar and concrete to support the pullback of the building on this side.
This area is undoubtedly filled by concrete by now and the building 3 three stories higher, yet it does provide a great insight to volume of materials needed to build this building.
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Don’t much about this but it appears the purchasers of the X The Village by High Park condominium units are conducting a poll to name their building.
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The view as you would be backing in to the area to unload and move in (the temp poles are only for construction purposes) The door to the left leads to the elevators
Moving in to the project will be real different from many of the high rises in the high Park Junction community with an in door move in area.
sight line of the load in ramp
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In todays Village by High Park video Sean McCaffrey the senior site superintendent for Deltera provide a audiovisual tour of the mechanical systems for domestic and fire water use.
Next week more about the storm water collection and the design plan for the 100 year strom factor.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5rfkQZpGA0
…oh and a new view image
Looking west
A exciting new view of Keele St and the subway train overpass from the TOP! yes from the TOP! of the subway
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Today I will keep my textual commentary quiet and let you hear Sean McCaffrey the senior site superintendent for Deltera speak about the reclaiming of heated air in the building to save energy.
In the video below he explains the way heated exhaust air from the building is used to save energy.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJEwi-hQarY
Oh and of course some exciting images.
Some of ducting installed at the present time
One of shared baloney (with temporary plastic and wood wind barriers for the installion of the bricks.)
Almost ready for a fridge and stove
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