Sunday, April 24, 2016

I was too late for the condo towers at Mrn Gtwy, which are now lived in, but a roundabout passage up from the parkade got me into the stairwell of the still-empty office building recently.

It was a weekend, and no construction workers were on site, but the place was locked up tight as a drum. Only the eleventh floor, a crossover, was open for viewing.






Still, I had fun.
Passing by a large condo development one weekend, I noticed that the security fencing had been taken down on one side. Most of the doors on that side were closed, but there was one open stairwell with nothing but some caution tape and a board in the way. Very inviting.

I knew there was security on site, so I went furtively down the stairs to the lowest parking level, which I hoped would connect me to one of the two towers. On the way down, I had to (quietly) move a couple of sheets of remesh out of the way -- another "Do Not Enter" obstacle.

The first few stairwells I climbed ended at ground level, and I didn't want to emerge if I could help it. Eventually I did find a stairwell that went all the way up the second, incomplete tower. I took a couple of cell-phone photos from the "roof."






Then I went down to about the seventh floor and crossed the bridge connecting the two towers. I could be seen from some spots on the site, but I just had to hope the security guards weren't gazing up in my direction at that moment.

A couple more photos from the top of the completed tower:





It was starting to drizzle. Satisfied, happy, I retraced my steps exactly to my entry point.

The remesh had been replaced!

I could hear voices!

I quietly freed myself, and padded quickly up the stairs, and escaped apparently unseen and unheard.