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What a retarded list... I'm not even sure what the point of it is. How a city is 'received'? By who? Some people hate ALL cities. Ever been to Alberta? And Vancouver above Tokyo? geeeeze! However, the only reason I could see Vancouver gaining a 'brand prominence' might be related to the...

Does anyone have any information about this project? (Number of buildings, height, etc... it's quite a large site, from what I remember. If development includes being right against Clarence Square, I would hope that they give a proper townhouse treatment to the site. And densify the hell out...

Goodie Gumdrops. You're getting our Earl's. It's meh... moderately upscaleish but not really upscale chain of restaurants. Food is average. Nothing to get excited about. But hey they're expanding so good on them. Earl's is the place to go when you're a heterosexual male trying to impress...

The Michael Kors stores piss me off. They're in MALLS in the SUBURBS. Ugh. There's one at Oakridge Mall here in Vancouver, and one at Rockland Centre in Montreal. Now Yorkdale. My finger spinnith in the air with utmost enthusiasm. Regardless of my sarcasm and disdain for malls, I understand a...

I miss the old A&F stores... I think they had at least some potential the way they were. Now they're just homer-erotic. This link has an excellent compilation of A&F concept videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3-WzqfbVHU

It's a pretty sexy store... we have one here on Alberni Street in Vancouver and I think they're close to declaring it our new Red Light District. Joking ;) Does anyone know what kind of ceiling heights are in the residences at the Regency Yorkville? I would expect at least 10'... can anyone...

You hear that everyone. SHOP AT LOBLAWS. I wonder if a re-do of the store would include an increased square footage. I think HR Bloor needs more space...yes it's quite large already, but the Vancouver and Calgary stores have similar sales spaces. My understanding was that the facade of the...

I'm confused....are you saying the BLOOR STREET Holt Renfrew may be redone?

Floorplans etc. I was poking around the City of Toronto website and I found some plans for this building/project, including renderings, retail, and unit floorplans... Penthouse interior/exterior (anyone recognize the interior from the Spring 2007 Holt Renfrew Catalogue, LOL)...

Update... Has construction begun on this office-to-condo conversion? Any pricing info? I haven't heard if a tenant or tenants have been chosen for the Cole-Haan retail location at the corner.

This link provides an excellent view of the future 1 Bloor development site (look in the background). http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=1806292

one word: yes I would say there's no question that the area will become more upscale, and already has. Watch this short video taken at the corner of Yonge and Charles Streets. This was a DAILY occurrence in the mid 80's LOL...

My understanding is that these Yorkville buildings have a 'mixed-use' zoning for their land. I was referring to the tearing down these buildings and building new towers...I would not generally suggest retrofitting an office tower to such a high-level of residential property (even though 28 St...

I wonder if the City would be up in arms about such a thing... here in Vancouver, the City must review any office conversion over 50,000 square feet, and will almost certainly say no to all conversion requests ;) Would Toronto planners be similarly paranoid about loosing precious office space...

An appropriately awesome alliteration ;)

I am very excited about the future of that part of Wellington Street. It has a residential 'Park Avenue' potential, given its proposed elegant park-like boulevard. I've noticed Adam Vaughn praising the proliferation of proposed 'family sized' units in this area. My question is... would...

I just found this little bit of info about 1000 Bay...sale price, site size, and the exclusion of Bistro 990.. http://www.marshnet.com/sample_pdf/sample_reports.cfm?fuseaction=act_getfile&pdf=City%20Land.pdf They will obviously be asking for more density/height. Especially given the very high...

Coach Store at DM Being a closeted fashionista, I was on the Coach website (http://www.coach.com/storelocator/storeresults.aspx?mode=3&country=CA&countryname=Canada) and noticed that a Coach Store will be opening October 2008 at Don Mills. I wonder what other 'upscale' stores will open? I wish...

I've thought about this development for a while... looking at the 'official plan' for Bloor/Yorkville, this building site was originally considered to be for shorter buildings. And we've got a 55s-r. Now we've got a proposal to tear down the original Four Seasons at 21 Avenue Road for tall...

I know that I'm sometimes accused of being a size queen, but the height reduction requirement seems silly. I think they should look at a height INCREASE for that site... it could handle it, especially given the lack of immediate parks, schools, and other residential. The whole business of...