There have been rumbles about this property for a while. This looks good. Lets build more, there are a lot of open (parking) spaces in downtown Oakville to make better use of.
We don't need more $2.5MM dollar suites in Oakville.
Maybe, but in this part of Oakville market drivers are going to lead to those or near price levels. Walking distance to downtown is very much in demand. And the money is there to make these type of purchases. We could build plenty of 4 -5- 6 story units between Douglas and Dorval and south of Cornwall (lets call that Olde Oakville) infilling the myriad parking lots, and from Speers north you have an opportunity to capitalize on height (if you wish) and density along better transit routes (for both the personal transit option and the more public OT and GO options, and maybe even a BRT on Dundas). I would just add that those 'walkups' make for nice neighborhoods. I am in Montreal this week working and living in a company condo in one of these newer neighborhoods close to the new REM. Walkable areas, the buildings feel more 'scaled' to the human being, far less shadow and bulk. They should put more surface parking underground, and cars rule here as well. Its very much a work in progress, and it will be interesting to see what effects the opening of the REM will have.
Why do they feel compelled to go with the spandreltized crown? And funny that the upper image above shows it as lowest grade raised-mullion window wall, while the lower image tries to show it as capless curtain wall. Either way… really?
And believe it or not the lower (curtain wall) rendering is actually the newer of the two.