Recent content by taal

What's a likely end outcome here ? Someone purchases it on the cheap, maybe converts the office to a hotel and tries to lease the retail ?

Unless they're rentals it really wouldn't make sense market timing wise.

I think this is a win ... I really hope they improve the street level experience though and I suspect they will. I say this is a win because I suspect if this wasn't going to be a hotel it would simply be demolished and likely sit as an empty plot for years. Realistically it'll probably stay a...

I agree but honestly this matters a lot less in-person / on foot than it does for pictures from a far.

I don't think so, if you go to cbre.ca you will see no mention of 1 Yonge, unless I completely missed it. I think it's much more likely it get's demolished and turned into a parking lot.

But what's the point ? It seems like it'll just just repeat in a few months ? Not that I have any better suggestions unfortunately. We talk a lot about housing but given (at least in my view) a lot of this is caused by drug and mental health issues I'm not sure that'll be sufficient on it's...

Very true ! I wonder if eventually there will be spill over though and we're back to seeing the fringe downtown sites picking up ? i.e. say back to office picks up ... in a few years we're no longer really talking about hybrid/remote ... in the same sense we didn't really talk about it before...

Hehe, my apologies then — I didn’t realize that was an unreasonable expectation 🤪. Let me give a bit of context: I was trying to use it today at NYCC, and the situation was pretty similar to what that screenshot showed i.e. hard to find any stations with available bikes. I know the network at...

Another pet peeve - is this normal ? There are essentially no bikes available throughout Y&E atm:

Was this removed ? I don't see it on the bikeshare map, I thought it was a new station.

Love this as this literally describes what my wife and I have been doing 🤪 I’d love to believe that but I just don’t think there’s the demand for it at larger scales like that here. Is there any timeline on the CAA theatre closing I didn’t think the development was set in stone ? Agreed...

I'm in Tokyo now and vertical retail is everywhere - to a level unfathomable in North America. But unfortunately I don't see it working here - online shopping is so pervasive in North America, while of course it exists here in Asia as well so many people do shopping at stores in person...

Honestly that's great - I wish the city would do more of that. The better question here is when the heck will the rest of the retail be complete (even if renting it out is a different story) !

I think this is something everyone in the world gets 🤣 The more interesting question is whether they’ll be growing significantly here. I came across this 2018 article about the AI lab they opened—which I assume is the current one on King Street...

Interesting ! I didn't realize Nvidia has a local presence but I think it was through an acquisition - I think they have a smaller site on King street. I wonder if this will be a larger expansion - which would be great !