Recent content by Geoff Olynyk

Came here to post exactly this haha

I have one of those semis on Strathmore, within 3 mins walk of a subway station. 6-8 storeys next door would be enough to make me sell — but we absolutely need to upzone this area. Insane that it’s only 3-storey single-family houses (and a few scattered 4-storey walkups south of danforth like on...

Actually seeing trades with tools down will be the ultimate proof that something’s gone wrong, but will happen well after (days to weeks to months, maybe) the boardroom battles that ultimately determine the fate of the project. Like a critical financing falling through (the death blow) could be...

I will admit, this reply does seem like “stop talking about business complications, we just want to see this thing get built”. But it’s really just this one reply. Is there actually a rule on UT that discussion of financing for a project (or business failure, or corruption, or whatever) has to...

You’re angering everyone because you’re being pretentious, shooting down comments like this without posting how it actually work. So, you have all this experience. Why, specifically, will Mizrahi find it difficult to replace the $30M of lost equity and $70M of lost debt? You don’t need to write...

Are discussions of the business of development banned from this forum? There are plenty of people (me included) who would love to see such content discussed. To get into the specifics of Mizrahi’s track record, risk assessment of the project, who their equity partners are and how above-board...

Just found this; in 2007 the site appeared in this article about abandoned property. Still “Bob Won Cartage and Moving Ltd” at that point. https://www.pressreader.com/canada/toronto-star/20071029/281702610355153

So many versions of this story. Think of what's now the high-end Broadview Hotel; at one point Jilly's strip club. The stories you hear about the structural damage in there that they found when gutting it to become the hotel... apparently it's a wonder it didn't collapse inward. Broadview hotel...

Well that lines up with this... from the 1954 Mights directory – it was a coal retailer! (Kerwood Ice & Fuel). It became Quinte Transport (long-haul trucking) in 1954 when the current building was built; also aligns with the timing as the home coal dealers were closing as coal use (and heating...

By the way, the expropriation is proceeding. The Inquiry Report came out on March 12th, the Inquiry Officer (Gillian Burton, who has judged expropriation hearings for a decade), found the obvious, that the site was perfect for expropriation and should proceed...

Yeah, it appears to have been a trucking company originally (Mights 1955 shows it as Quinte Transport). Later Bobby Won's Transport, apparently with some real mean guard dogs. (See: Coxwell & Gerrard facebook group ) Was abandoned as late as summer 2013: By the following summer, it's...

Does anyone know what this building once was? I know it was built between 1953 and 1956 from aerial photos. It's kind of a cool light-industrial location, secluded and right up against the GTR tracks. I always thought it would make a great location for a craft brewery or art gallery (or both at...

Excited for Destination Danforth bike lanes!!

Here's another one from the same series. Mister Greek at 568 Danforth, from a rainy dreary day in the late 1980s.

Akropol Greek Bakery in Greektown from a series of photos surveying all the traditional Greek businesses on that part of the Danforth from the late 1980s. Many of them are gone now. In the late 1980s, there were still single-family houses that weren't storefronts right on the Danforth in...