Developer: Metrolinx
  
Address: 21 Don Roadway, Toronto
Category: Transit
Status: ConstructionCrane(s): 0
Height: 47 ft / 14.35 mStoreys: 1 storeys
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Toronto East Harbour Transit Hub | 14.35m | 1s | Metrolinx

Love the nod to Best Buy in this design. Also love the 3 trees that replace the thousands upon thousands that were cut down to build this heaping pile of junk. Gotta love Doug Fords Ontario and utter hatred for any wards that don’t vote Conservative. The garbage that’s being built all along riverside and Leslieville is their way of not taking care of our NDP / Liberal community while spending billions to bury the crosstown line in barren Etobicoke
I think it has less to do how the constituents voted and more to do with that the parties involved are just cheapening out for the sake of "efficiency" (there's that DOGE word again)...

...that said, I suspect if the Tories cut themselves a Therme like deal with private interests could spruce up the design here significantly. However, as the shenanigans of Ontario Place have demonstrated, be careful what you wish for. /sigh
 

Opinion | There were once ambitious plans for this major new Toronto transit hub. How did it go from grand to bland?​


Consider, too the amount of effort that went into preparing this site, with the tear down of the massive Unilever factory that was, for a very long time, a landmark near the bottom of the Don River and DVP. It was a great shame that some of the industrial structures couldn’t be incorporated into the new developments, but it was cleared to a clean slate. The only thing that replaces the sense of place heritage buildings can provide is great, new architecture, not buildings that have the ambiance of aircraft hangers.
 
Probably bean counters without vision and a soul have taken over the driver's seat, to put it mildly... /sigh
 

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