Tomas Kaberle for Devin Setoguchi?  Straight up?  That’s a dream!

Wayne Gretzky is coming out of retirement to play for the Leafs?  That’s great news!

Oh, yeah – and there’s also these two massive condominiums that just opened outside of the Air Canada Centre, brought to you by the good folks at MLSE…

Now I understand!

Who cares about winning Stanley Cups when you have condos to develop!

While Brian Burke has been fast-tracking the “re-building” process of the Toronto Maple Leafs in attempts to get the brass at MLSE one playoff round worth of revenue, the rest of the balding, grey-haired suits have been building condos!

Okay, I’ll check my feelings about MLSE at the door and focus on real estate.

MLSE pulled off a real winner here at Maple Leaf Square.

No, I’m certainly not a fan of the location for my own personal needs, but the condominium is fantastic.

This is what I would call “Hong-Kong-inspired” or as close as we could come to having a “world class” condominium in Toronto.

There are a few other “world class” condominiums in development or planning right now (think Shangri-La, Four Seasons, Trump), but Maple Leaf Square is the only existing new-age landmark condominium/retail/commercial/office/hotel.

No, I would never eat at their stupid sports bar, or by clothing from their ridiculous apparel shop.

But this condo is world-class, as far as Toronto goes.

And what impresses me the most is that after all the ranting and raving I have done about “half-finished” condos in our city, Maple Leaf Square was more complete than any new project I have seen in the last half-decade.  You won’t be tripping over drywall in the un-carpeted corridors of this building for eight months like you will at….well, every other condo!

I think it’ll be a huge pain if you want to “quickly” run out to get a loaf of bread on a night when the Leafs are playing, and you certainly won’t be taking the car out into that congestion at Bremner/York!

But if you want to live “where the action is,” how can you go wrong?