Livingston Place is named after Sam Livingston who was an early pioneer here or something. The project consists of 2 office towers. I think they are going to be 23 floors each. The project was started on spec without any major tenants signed. It was going to be built in 2 phases but because it is now fully leased, both towers are going up at the same time.
The second picture shows from the left: Livingston, the 3 towers of Sun Life Plaza, the TransCanada Pipelines Tower, the east tower of Fifth Avenue Place, the International Hotel and the head office for BP Canada.
There are about 14 office buildings under construction downtown right now (the Mount Royal block, Stampede Station, phases 2&3 of the IBM campus, Genco Place, Opus 8, Centrium Place, Citadel West, Livingston Place 1&2, Centennial Place phase 1(40 stories), Banker's Court, and the Homberg-Harris towers 1&2) with more in the works including the 59 story Bow Tower.
Also Canada's biggest courthouse is under construction downtown. There is a 24 story high atrium between the 2 courthouse towers which are 24 and 20 floors each. The building is massive and has been built to withstand the impact of a 747 hitting it. It should be open for business in about a year.
There are over 40 condo towers in the downtown area under construction or in the planning pipeline. Downtown should become much more alive, especially in the evenings, when the residential population increases substantially. The daytime downtown office worker population is over 110,000, but fewer than 10,000 people at present live downtown.
I'm not sure if the 3,500 homeless people downtown are counted as residents.
I hope they find space for all of them to take shelter this winter. It is a crisis.
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