casaguy
Senior Member
Thanks Casaguy for the pic.
I drove by on Sunday afternoon and noticed two people taking pictures of this. I wonder if this was you.
Nope, I was solo.
Thanks Casaguy for the pic.
I drove by on Sunday afternoon and noticed two people taking pictures of this. I wonder if this was you.
oh shoot, I didn't notice it was the 54 bus. I was just trying to give back some love to the borough I grew up in.
It's ok to love something you moved downtown to get away from? right?
Back on topic I always thought its a shame that they build the scarborough condo towers circling a mall instead of along streets.. oh well, what can you do?
At the rate condos are filling up all the remaining plots, I'm wondering if there will ever be room for a large library in STC...such a facility should be located very close to the RT station. Perhaps I'll email some councillors and see what's up with sites like immediately east of the federal building or the SE corner of Brimley & Progress.
My issue with the location of these towers is not that they are circling the mall, but after these are built and the rest of Monarch's buildings (EQ's and Red), then that would make 7 condo towers within a 1-minute walk of the RT station. That's 7 key sites that could have been reserved for any potential office buildings. I know there is not much of a market now for employment lands in STC, but that doesn't mean all the redevelopment sites close to rapid transit stations should be residential (Gibson Square in NYCC is another example). STC has an advantage over NYCC in that there are still quite a few empty sites (around McCowan Station and either side of Brimley) that could have office buildings in the future.
At the rate condos are filling up all the remaining plots, I'm wondering if there will ever be room for a large library in STC...such a facility should be located very close to the RT station. Perhaps I'll email some councillors and see what's up with sites like immediately east of the federal building or the SE corner of Brimley & Progress.
...having said that, ditto on the library! A district library in STC, be it east of the federal building (and beside the YMCA), SE of Brimley & Progress or between Consilium and Progress would be great.