gristle
Senior Member
Unless these restaurants own their premises, exactly why should they be entitled to stay there?
The article doesn't speak to any "entitlement," but to potentially losing a unique corner of the city.
Unless these restaurants own their premises, exactly why should they be entitled to stay there?
There's no fine dining there now. Just tourist traps.
I think some of the restaurants there are still nice. Fran's or the Hard Rock are tourist traps. These places are upper-end-ish for those who are going to the theater or enjoying other amenities in the area.
Mirvish's project has four, century-old heritage buildings to be demolished. Not incorporated into the podium, just completely demolished to make way for Ghery's construction paper and egg carton thing.
I'm really disliking the proposal and would prefer for the heritage buildings to be incorporated.
The Mirvish proposal has nothing to do with the buildings on restaurant row.
It's hardly upper-endish either, I can only assume that Miscreant was thinking of somewhere else.Fran's is a tourist trap?!
What Toronto needs is a moratorium on all condos downtown. This vertical sprawl that is destroying downtown now should be in the suburbs instead. If any development is allowed downtown it should be commercial and instutional uses only, and it should be 3 storeys max.
While it would be fair to say that Adam Vaughan has been very pro-development, the Kyle Rae of the west downtown, there's no evidence of corruption nor is it fair to make such comments.
Well it is hard to prove these things but, nevertheless, money talks. I really would have thought Vaughan would be against this proposal and was surprised to hear he is for it. What other explaination can there be then?
These condos should all be put in the suburbs. There are no historical buildings there. This can be sold to the people there as then allowing subways to be built in the future since it would then be justified.
But it will have impact and influence on the block's future development.
Well it is hard to prove these things but, nevertheless, money talks. I really would have thought Vaughan would be against this proposal and was surprised to hear he is for it. What other explaination can there be then?
These condos should all be put in the suburbs. There are no historical buildings there. This can be sold to the people there as then allowing subways to be built in the future since it would then be justified.