07-07-2016, 09:58 PM
(06-30-2016, 05:25 PM)eizenstriet Wrote: I thought these were raising the Northdale bar, too, until I spoke with a young couple who had been living in one of them for almost a year. It seems one must also look beneath the surface.
They were desperate to get out. The building is mostly 4-bedroom student clusters. The couple was in what would, I guess, be one of the rarer 2-bedroom "young professional" suites. They were not professionals, but students, apparently serious ones. The noise made it impossible for them to work or study, and apparently even residents of the student clusters were moving desks into the halls to get work done.
One year in, there were still bare wires hanging from the ceiling, and their balcony had no railing. It was not only the pace of construction, but the quality, which disillusioned them. They said the building would not hold up well.
I talked with a neighbour a few days ago, and he told me they lived at 144 Park before. Much of a similar horror story, he said they couldn't wait to get out ot there. Not only the Mady bankruptcy, but according to him the construction quality was atrocious. (Though it's rarely great anywhere these days.)
Admittedly this is only hearsay, I have never been inside 144 Park.