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This is almost PoMo. Damn, love it!

"Of this, $2 billion is for bus rapid transit [BRT] projects on Highway 7, Yonge Street and Davis Drive, in Markham, Richmond Hill, Vaughan and Newmarket. BRT costs include road widening for rapidways, vivastations along each corridor, and new facilities, terminals, and vehicles." I mean, it's...

As a long-time Markham taxpayer, no one should be complaining about density along the very expensive transitway we built on Highway 7. I'll try and find the document, but I think part of the yellow-belt to the north is slated for redevelopment per the MTSA for VIVA.

From "MARKHAM CENTRE SECONDARY PLAN INTERIM UPDATE AND DISCUSSION" Source: https://pub-markham.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=48544

I hope there are no balconies on these buildings as that's the key chokepoint on the DVP/404 and the air cannot be good.

I'll guess partial reconstruction with a new 200M+ tower somewhere.

GO expansion and electrification are really doing wonders for intensification in the 905.

Nice first post! I was wondering when this might start.

15,000 people in one development is still mind boggling. It's like adding a Kenora or a Bracebridge.

This interacts very well with the Frost Building.

Appreciate the photos, but I really need to stop opening Diamond Schmitt residential threads.

This is certainly something.

So bad it could be in Liberty Village.

An interesting presentation showing all the new development in the pipeline for Markham Centre: https://pub-markham.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=44509

Would they need to replace the office space elsewhere? I thought these conversions were a no-go with current bylaws.

This is one of the better condo-funded public art pieces. We've got quite the collection across the GTA nowadays.

Another tacky design for Toronto's Little Miami.

The graphic claims that 16th Avenue will get a BRT but I've never heard of this even being proposed. There is a plan for BRT on Major Mac though.

Ugh, it will blend right in with Aura. Source: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/resizer/4iAjA5zzC72mYr16k9Gui-ArHvI=/1200x0/filters:quality(80)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tgam/AWZFGJKUKJG3XNTRT7BRBBIPYY.JPG

Now asking for 1400 units in the northern parcel in towers that are now 34, 33x2, 12 stories: https://pub-markham.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=42516 Revised site plan, but no renderings yet: https://pub-markham.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=42521