City of glistening towers and falling glass

Glass has fallen from a 25th floor balcony of the recently completed Boutique Condominium at 126 Simcoe Street. It fell more or less harmlessly on a couple of cars parked on the street. No one was injured.  That’s the good news but it has to be said that there are still quite few similar panes of glass still up there. As in previous cases where Toronto has heard the pitter patter of falling glass, this incident has been received with a sort of innocent acceptance
Sounded like ice cubes
 Workers at a hotel across the street said the sound of the glass hitting the vehicles was like someone throwing ice cubes. And for those of us in South Bayview it may seem far enough away. People here want to live in houses on a street with grass and trees outside, not in a glass sky-box with bits falling off.  The prospect for those who merely want to walk downtown is thought-provoking. The job of cleaning up the falling glass threat seems enormous, given the number of such buildings.
If you live in one
And for those who actually live in them, there is this cautionary advice about the cost of maintenance from a real estate blog.  “Replacing glass every 25 years or so certainly isn’t a new concept – but buildings have only recently been constructed with exteriors primarily consisting of glass. The biggest concern for owners of these properties is whether or not the maintenance fees adequately represent the depreciation of the glass. Given the reaction by stakeholders to this article we’re thinking that perhaps they do not. When future expenditures are generally known they can be properly accounted for in the monthly maintenance fees, if not the gap in funding can result in large increases in these costs and thus maintenance fees or a special assessment (lump sum) in order to fund expenses”.