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[ShonTron]

Early proposal for a mixed use highrise at Railroad Street and McMurchy Avenue, just west of Downtown Brampton. It's... something. Proposing 42 stories with two larger retail units on the lower floors and a two storey restaurant on the upper two floors.

But, the architecture is a bit much, and it also stands in the way of a potential grade separated crossing (vehicular or active transport) between McMurchy Avenue and Pleasantview/Rosedale Avenue. I kinda like the idea, but it needs a lot of work.

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[Northern Light]

Early proposal for a mixed use highrise at Railroad Street and McMurchy Avenue, just west of Downtown Brampton. It's... something. Proposing 42 stories with two larger retail units on the lower floors and a two storey restaurant on the upper two floors.

But, the architecture is a bit much, and it also stands in the way of a potential grade separated crossing (vehicular or active transport) between McMurchy Avenue and Pleasantview/Rosedale Avenue. I kinda like the idea, but it needs a lot of work.

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That's KirKor level busy right there. Dial that back!

Podium w/supermarket, great idea......but surface parking, and one substantially opaque/solid wall, "No".

Applause for ambition, send back for a re-think.

* amused to note, I only looked up at the Arch. firms name as I hit 'post'.........funny that Kor is the second part.......

 

[cd concept]

Love to see this earth tone colour skyscraper get developed. Between the sea of blue green towers that dominate Toronto's downtown skyline for some diversity lol!

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

Boy, that's a fun-with-Lego chunky tower...

 

[FullMetalEngineer]

A roof top restaurant in Brampton? Never thought I would see such a thing proposed.

 

[xy3]

Looks awful. Back to the drawing board, hopefully.

 

[collinbrown86]

Wow! This looks awesome, this high-rise will really make this city pop! I absolutely love the design/the concept.

Just checked out their website, great to see a young firm getting some attention!

 

[ProjectEnd]

Wow! This looks awesome, this high-rise will really make this city pop! I absolutely love the design/the concept.

Just checked out their website, great to see a young firm getting some attention!

Hate to break it to you, but this is not real and won't happen like this, if at all...

 

[ShonTron]

Hate to break it to you, but this is not real and won't happen like this, if at all...

You're probably right. The city is looking to buy the property from the parkland acquisition budget, hopefully to protect for a pedestrian/cyclist crossing: https://pub-brampton.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=72387

 

[ShonTron]

Anyway, I saw a for sale sign on the lot at McMurchy and Railroad today promoting it as a high-rise residential development site. So, @ProjectEnd was this just a ploy to jack up the land price?

 

[ProjectEnd]

100%. A Brampton-based GC with no real experience on construction projects of any discernable scale hires a Calgary-suburban-strip-mall-based-architect with no GTA experience and proposes something unbuildable on land that the City intended to buy anyways? Yikes...

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

100%. A Brampton-based GC with no real experience on construction projects of any discernable scale hires a Calgary-suburban-strip-mall-based-architect with no GTA experience and proposes something unbuildable on land that the City intended to buy anyways? Yikes...

So what's the reason for them doing this anyways? ...I mean outside of doing it for the poop and giggles, that is.

 

[interchange42]

So what's the reason for them doing this anyways? ...I mean outside of doing it for the poop and giggles, that is.

To make the land worth more, no matter what entity would buy it from them.

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