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[VicHockeyFan]

Looks like the former school uniform shop is about ready to fall to the wrecking ball (OK, probably just an excavator with a big ram on it), probably before the end of the week. Not sure about Edwards Welding, but I'm gusessing its gone too very soon.

[D.L.]

I like that rendering of Radius. Looks like the laneway that should be going in through Hudson will cross over to the south side of Radius. Will there be a walkway through Radius to continue through to Chatham street?

[G-Man]

^Caledonia Street I think you mean.

I believe so.

[D.L.]

ya they're the same thing

[aastra]

Nice pic from their website:

[Mike K.]

Oh yeah, sweet.

[VicHockeyFan]

Half of the uniform store and the welding shop are gone now. The welding shop had some major overhead cranes type of thing that took some time to dismantle.

[VicHockeyFan]

Edwards is gone. See for yourself:

http://youtube.com/p...SopranosKaraoke

[Mike K.]

Haha...that was awesome! Did the ground shake when the wall fell?

[VicHockeyFan]

Haha...that was awesome! Did the ground shake when the wall fell?

Not really. Wait 5 or ten minutes, the west wall falls too, they are just uploading to YouTube. They didn't even stop traffic on Caledonia as it fell.

[G-Man]

Wow very cool!

[VicHockeyFan]

[Icebergalley]

Wonder how long it will take for all those concrete chunks to end up as road bed some where?

[G-Man]

I don't know but if this project wants any sort of LEED certification they better make sure that they do.

[Mike K.]

There's a larger, updated rendering of the Radius project in the Journal of Commerce. A link is available via the Radius website [url=http://radiusvictoria.com/pdf/JournalofCommerce-27Dec06.pdf:c9ae4]here[/url:c9ae4].

This is looking northeast, with the residential portion on the left and office portion on the top-right. The Jack Davis building is the white mass on the right.

[Baro]

that is a HUGE improvement over "the wall"



Here's the bigger pic.

I just really fear that "ammenity" is just going to be useless land. I fear it will be like centenial square. An unsafe useless square other than a few events here and there. It has the Jack Davis' retaining wall on one side, and a blank brick wall of the IBM office building on the other side.

I would have gone with another tower there and an interesting mid-block walkway with shops. Ah right, but a dead square is "public ammenity" and usefull shops and vibrancy is greed... I forgot how victoria works.

[G-Man]

That is actually supposed to be the university entrance, sort of below those zigzag steps. So there will be a lot of activity there. Also I have heard that that structure on the East side of that little square is going to be a 2 storey glass food service retail (read Starbucks).

[aastra]

About time there was a Starbucks downtown.

[zoomer]

Well, Uptown is definetly under-Starbucked...

awesome deconstruction videos VHF.

[VicHockeyFan]

^ Well, what can I say. I had a video cam in my hand at the right time. Didn't use my new digicam, although it can do video too.