Recent content by busybeaver

January 27, 2026 ~ lots of bikes available! 🚲 ❄️ 🤣

it's listed as a condo: 808 Mt Pleasant: proposed 61-storey mixed-use condominium building designed by Sweeny &Co Architects for Reserve Properties and Westdale Properties on the west side of Mt Pleasant Road, north of Eglinton Avenue East in Midtown Toronto.

that's good but I would rather see affordable housing and/or cooperatives built here than yet another condo..

This seems like the epitome of dysfunctional ‘city planning’ and worst case embodied carbon emissions..demolish a recently renovated mid-rise displacing hundreds of tenants during a housing crisis ..meanwhile mere steps away on Roehampton are these scruffy little houses.

Dec 18, 2025 ~ I spy 2 men inside Natasha!

Dec 17, 2025 ~ rise up, rise up 🎶

Community Snow ❄️ Kirk Newman’s sculpture "Community", completed in June 2001. located on the grounds of Manulife Financial's Head Office in Toronto.

Interesting to see some recent progress made - after years of delays and controversy - of another decommissioned airport housing development in Edmonton's new Blatchford community: https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/construction-going-full-steam-ahead-in-blatchford-city/

retail still for lease.. $$$?

Dec 7, 2025 - a crinkle in time..

the Imperial Pub should move in there.. but is there room to accommodate their neon sign?;)

March 25, 2025, more shiny happy siding!

you’re not going crazy.. there was a competition but it was more an exercise to explore design ideas for a public square on the southeast corner of John & King. some screenshots and from: https://yourexperienceawaits.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/DWBIA-Growth-Development-Framework-Sept-2024.pdf

October 19, 2025

I don't post pics where people's faces are visible.. and on the topic of 'distress' that can be applied to others feeling distress in the immediate neighbourhood: 'George Hislop Park, which borders Sanctuary’s property, is described in the condo board’s filing as a spillover site for drug use...