Toronto 259 Geary Avenue | 33.3m | 8s | Green Storage | Paul Hastings Architect

[Northern Light]

So they are stacking those red warehouses on concrete stilts? Not sure how transport trucks are supposed to get to them, but it kinda looks cool though.

Important to start off by saying, they appear to be at the blue-skying phase.

In that linked presentation, one of the next steps is to hire an engineer to assess over-buildability.

So they're really at the high level concept stage.

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That said, I wouldn't think transport trucks will be a huge feature here.

They're identifying retail, urban agriculture, art/community/ business incubation type occupancy.

But no indication of warehouse/industry or big box retail.

Ground-floor loading with freight elevators should suffice; presuming this concept is advanced further.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

Oh well...they'll be much more than just suspended Brick warehouses then. Then that concept makes much more sense now. Thanks!

 

[smably]

Lots of interesting content and concepts in this extensive online presentation for 259 Geary.

Grabbed some notable snippets showing potential massing:

https://issuu.com/marie.e/docs/259geary_trajectories

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OK, this is cool but I am definitely not going to give them a pass for plagiarizing large chunks of copy from a 2011 BlogTO article.

Compare:

(https://www.blogto.com/city/2011/02/the_slow_fade_of_industry_on_geary_avenue/)

 

[ShonTron]

OK, this is cool but I am definitely not going to give them a pass for plagiarizing large chunks of copy from a 2011 BlogTO article.

Compare:
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(https://www.blogto.com/city/2011/02/the_slow_fade_of_industry_on_geary_avenue/)

Wait, someone plagiarized BlogTO, rather than BlogTO doing the plagiarizing?

 

[Johnny Au]

Wait, someone plagiarized BlogTO, rather than BlogTO doing the plagiarizing?

Plagiarizing is one thing.

Plagiarizing a known plagiarizer is another.

 

[A Torontonian Now]

Plagiarizing is one thing.

Plagiarizing a known plagiarizer is another.

I'm not sure plagiarists are all that discriminating...

 

[Northern Light]

OK, this is cool but I am definitely not going to give them a pass for plagiarizing large chunks of copy from a 2011 BlogTO article.

Compare:
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(https://www.blogto.com/city/2011/02/the_slow_fade_of_industry_on_geary_avenue/)

I ran the paragraph above though a plagiarism detector:

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This was what it had to say:

I'm not checking the rest of the text! LOL

The photos, they at least credited.

 

[evanb]

Did TAS sell this site? Proponent is now Green Storage, and new docs up for an 8-story drive-through self storage facility. Only covering the western half of the site, part of The Brick building remains.

Application Details

www.toronto.ca

 

[AlbertC]

I appreciate the retail but otherwise this is so lame.

 

[ProjectEnd]

Did TAS sell this site? Proponent is now Green Storage, and new docs up for an 8-story drive-through self storage facility. Only covering the western half of the site, part of The Brick building remains.

Application Details

www.toronto.ca

They did, yep. Close to two years ago now.