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Morning Brew: Extra TTC cash likely going to Wheel Trans service, Massey Hall gets more space, and the tiny cube house sells for over $350k

Posted by Brianne Hogan / January 24, 2012

TorontoThat five million that Josh Colle and Co. were able to save the TTC looks more and more like it's going to towards the maintenance of Wheel Trans service for dialysis patients around Toronto. Karen Stintz had initially indicated that her desire was to see the funds be used for the purchase of new streetcars, but that didn't sit too well with those who thought its best application was to reduce service cuts to bus routes. This new strategy is a compromise, it would seem. Is it a good one?

Thanks to a land donation from Toronto's MOD Developments Inc., Massey Hall now finally has the chance to have patron amenities that we often take for granted. You know, like more washrooms and bars — fancy stuff like that. The development firm recently bought the Canadian Bank of Commerce Building, Massey Hall's neighbour, and plans to donate 4,804 square-foot section of land to the concert hall.

Turns out dinosaurs were good parents. According to new study by University of Toronto and Royal Ontario Museum researchers, dinos were a compassionate sort, even nurturing their babies during the embryonic stage. The study was seven years in the making after the team discovered the oldest dinosaur eggs ever discovered in South Africa's Golden Gate Highlands National Park.

So Toronto's tiny cube house that looks like a stack of Legos sold for "well over" the asking price of $349,000. The little house was in high demand — the winning couple, with a child, beat out five other bidders for the house. Not bad for a house without a kitchen.

IN BRIEF:

Photo by Alfred Hermida in the blogTO Flickr pool

Discussion

8 Comments

auditorydamage / January 24, 2012 at 09:26 am
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Many still are compassionate and caring - now if only they'd stop using my balcony as an open latrine...
Gabe / January 24, 2012 at 09:39 am
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The listing for that house is still on mls

http://www.realtor.ca/propertyDetails.aspx?propertyId=11476610&;PidKey=2048692681
ss replying to a comment from Gabe / January 24, 2012 at 10:13 am
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And it will be till it closes.
Sale is conditional until Friday.
Jane / January 24, 2012 at 11:09 am
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No Kitchen? I don't get it. The MLS listing shows a picture of a kitchen and states there there is a Fridge and Stove...?
m holmes / January 24, 2012 at 11:11 am
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Just looking from the outside, the cube house needs all new windows (call that 3-4 grand) and a brand new facade (new material that's better than painted plywood)(call that 10-15 grand)....Who knows how shittily it's insulated. Good luck with this sketchy fixer upper.
agentsmith / January 24, 2012 at 12:22 pm
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It's a novelty thing, plain and simple. Only an interior designer and architect would pay +$400K for a "house" with no kitchen and no closets that needs an addition to make it liveable, but oh hey it sure looks neato-keano doesn't it.
m holmes / January 24, 2012 at 12:51 pm
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"It has no furnace, basement or closets — which would have made it somewhat of a fit for the highest bidder, a single person. By adding a second pod — pending city approval — it’s expected the buyers would add family friendly amenities, like a kitchen and closets. There is not a single one in the place."
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furnace 4000
closets 1000-1500
kitchen rough in 1000-2000
kitchen build 7500-?

A money pit...on stilts.

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