:-(This sight actually makes me sad.
:-(
My idea...combine a bunch of units and make it a pod hotel
Or add a small kitchenette and bathroom and you got yourself a condo with easy access to the subway. No day light? Can't be too picky in this market!
While 'something" clearly needs to be done it is not going to be easy as each Unit was sold to a different owner and I doubt they can get their acts together to agree on what is best to be done - there is no obvious "one solution" . Not sure the City has any real responsibility as that retail space COULD work if it had been properly laid out and sold (or even better leased) to the right kinds of 'destination" store and if there was a real and obvious connection to College Park and, one day, further south. The developer certainly does have a great deal of responsibility - these folk were sold a bunch of garbage in a mall that is poorly (to be kind) connected to the rest of the 'underground City'. We may snicker but people DO seem to use nail salons and dry cleaners - unfortunately this 'mall' has little else, almost no passing traffic due to the poor connections and it looks like shit.Perhaps there's a spark of genius in your suggestions. Do nothing is clearly not an option. Nothing's going to skate the retail use on-side. Adaptive reuse of failed real estate is happening globally. The suite owners have no choice but to seek out creative alternatives, together as one. Separately, it would be suicide. And the City bears some responsibility as well. This notion that retail must be included in every condo development is ridiculous. There's only so many dry cleaners and nail salons required.
This sight actually makes me sad
Expected traffic of 30K "approximate" daily? Please, can the lies get more blatant than that?
AoD
Other possibilities: red light district (similar to the one in Amsterdam but indoors)
hmmmm. $1100 net+$1000 TMI..... that's$2200 Gross rent per month for 223 square feet which works out to $118ish per square foot. That puts it above other prime downtown high foot traffic retail which ranges from $45-$100 a foot. There are over a dozen units on MLS for this building, some are offering free net rent for a year... I'm curious to know what logic this particular Landlord used to come up with $2200 a month, I haven't even calculated 13% HST which would add another $$