Search results

Just wonderful to see these facades properly cleaned up, if the streetscape is 1/2 way decent this will be quite good.. I have to say, when @AHK and @PMT are on a roll on the same night, keeping up with them is a calorie-burner.

No. Excise Taxes on beer in Ontario/Canada are quite high, even w/o the LCBO mark-up there is no way you're getting even a two-four close to that price range. A low end beer in the Beer store is ~$49 for a two-four or just over $2 per beer. Wider sales and removal of the 'thou shalt...

No question this is an issue........but I'd place my bets a bit differently, I lean to an increase in the assignee discount to at least 15% in order to provide margin. I also think there may be some other tweaks, in addition to allowing domestics to by-pass the LCBO as wholesaler and sell...

I don't believe this piece has been posted yet, even though it was published July 2nd. From Canadian Architect: (by Elsa Lam)...

General appearance issues aside, its prominent location beside a signfiicant heritage landmark and kitty corner to AGO makes its problems more of an issue. There are lots of reasons for similar'ish, and bland architecture. These are much discussed on the forum. That said, even a...

A discussion on the narrow subject of elevators and informed by the piece above happened recently in the zoning reform thread, starting here: https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/zoning-reform-ideas.28286/post-2103454

@Admiral Beez has it right here. The Macron Centrists weren't and aren't apart of the left-wing coalition, but they did negotiate w/same following the first round of elections and both they and the leftist group had candidates withdraw to help the other win. Though, Macron's party did have...

Excellent piece! TY for linking to that. While I happen to favour decriminalization of possession for personal use of most drugs.......as I don't see jail as a real solution....... I'm also increasingly opposed to safe consumption sites. I say that as someone, who like the resident in the...

Far be it from me to defend what seems like a procedural mess, and Councillor Parking Lot............. But....if one listens to what the Councillor said, he is clearly asserting that the Province has told him they will not let this go ahead, they will either remove it from the OLT or override...

Don't see the application yet............but this is coming: @Paclo

Excellent pics as always @Red Mars! I can see we're only 1 storey out of grade, so it will soon be much easier to track this site........ I note that above-grade permits are in place so this should proceed w/o delay.

Interesting..........I found an aerial image of the site from 1999 (The rail corridor, not yet trail, through what would later be the Fortino's site: From: https://library.mcmaster.ca/maps/aerialphotos/index.html What year were the tracks lifted?

So it runs through the lot, interrupted by driveways, as a white concrete path, that doesn't follow the original alignment. To be clear, I appreciate your pointing out how they handled it.... but I can't say I agree w/how they handled it.

With a duly credited Assist from @Paclo I can now report that this one is now at OLT and headed to a Merit Hearing on Nov 12th, 2024. https://jus-olt-prod.powerappsportals.com/en/e-status/details/?id=5d52e85e-1ec8-ed11-b596-0022483dd266

On the proposal itself, I can broadly echo what's been said above.......atrocious, car-centric, suburban architecture. Beyond that though......they proposed have traffic from their mega parking garage exiting via a tiny side street? What's that about..........non-starter. This site just...

Can one of you Hamilton types explain to me how we ended up with the Rail Trail vanishing through the Fortinos Parking Lot?

32 stores that are set to open to the public on weekends only starting next week would have seen their orders bloated, a smattering of additional stores aimed at serving licensees the same. I wouldn't imagine they would have bloated stock all that much at other stores which they intend to...

A very thin report, which will be buttressed by a Supplementary Report on the subject of the Subway-Building Program is headed to the next meeting of Executive Committee. https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2024/ex/bgrd/backgroundfile-247509.pdf From the above: Note Item 3 above.......

A report to the next meeting of Executive Ctte outlines a very high level reallocation of the capital funds currently allocated to the Gardiner/DVP beginning in 2025 when the province is presumed to assume full ownership and responsibility for the latter. The Report is here...

Agreed. Also agreed. I want to agree to this.............except I don't recall any SFH right at the corner, and streetview doesn't show any either........there'''s multi-res, (lowrise) a gas station and a vacant lot. But I'm happy to agree that Main here feels very suburban. I'd...