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The proposed development is an improvement over what exists there currently but geez... only three retail frontages on that massive block?

Well, that's an improvement on the original design. Interested to see what the OMB decides in 2-3 years :rolleyes:

I'm okay with a square here, since there's a lot of nearby green space, as others have mentioned. What I'd like to see is some animation like independent food stalls, or even street vendors in the park. The pop-up cafe is great, but it's worth considering more community-oriented, informal...

Fair, replace condo with "any residential sort of high rise". It's still glorious.

This tower gives me hope for the future of architecture in Toronto condos. Developers, if you're listening, more of this. Please please please. Any colour brick.

2022. She needs to win the hearts and minds of the upper middle class white folks who live along the Yonge Corridor to make a successful run, and John Tory has them in his pocket.

But.... you shared a link to an article saying that the Liberals knew Hydro was an issue from polling, and then said they should have done something about it. Isn't that governing by polls? Even that article points out that the economy and health surpassed Hydro as the number one issue for a...

Make it simple and brick-clad, please. Selby-style.

Fourth possibility (the most likely, in my opinion): Tory is just trying to keep the project alive until after the next election, at which point he can throw his hands in the air and say "I tried!" when they reveal that the line will actually cost $5 billion and no one wants to support it anymore.

Even if it were later in the game, recent events have demonstrated that advance polling is not particularly accurate. The people who respond to polls =/= the people who actually vote. (See: Ontario 2014, Brexit, USA 2016) The people who respond disproportionately to pollsters (if the 2014...

The zoning for mixed use buildings along Bloor West is pretty tight (3 storey height maximum IIRC). Is there any precedent of the OMB approving something tall in the area? There are some taller apartments further west, but nothing in the last couple decades. This lot is subject to a zoning...

The station at River no longer makes sense if you put a stop at Parliament. Jarvis is also too close to Yonge to have a stop... the distance between Yonge and Jarvis is even shorter than Bloor-Danforth spacing. As a result, Sherbourne is the appropriate place for a first stop after Yonge, and...

Most of the land labelled "mixed use" will end up being retail and/or a few floors of office under high-rise residential (regardless of proposed amounts of PIC use). Plenty of space for tens of thousands of new residents, market willing.

It's also positioned in a way that prevents optimal redevelopment of the site. It has to go, unfortunately.

Well, usually the hole in the wall places have way better coffee. And the profits don't go to some faceless suit in Seattle.

Agreed. All detached houses in downtown and the west/east ends (without heritage value) need to be available for redevelopment into duplexes, triplexes, and stacked townhomes. Hopefully this will be part of the #yellowbelt discussion.

That's funny. I have never associated Brad Lamb with projects that overpower their surrounding context. I can think of a few worse.

Then they should have used that space as a widened sidewalk or POPS rather than jam in a bunch of ill-conceived townhomes. The fact that they can't sell them speaks volumes.

My take on it is this: there are two types of hotel customers. Type 1 doesn't care where they stay, as long as it's cheap. Type 2 wants an "experience", and is willing to pay for it. The more... frumpy... hotels downtown don't offer an experience, and they're not cheap. Type 1 people are more...

Because Bay Street is a major thoroughfare, and developments should have commercial space in the ground floor to support the dense population of residents and workers in the surrounding area. The vast majority of Bay Street is zoned Mixed Use for this reason. Unfortunately, the lot this...