gristle
Senior Member
It is appealing to a stylish crowd.
Except on late Friday night - when it can be an appalling stylish crowd.
It is appealing to a stylish crowd.
I hope they don't kill the Entertainment District, but that's because I wish they were vomiting on Peter Street, and not in my 'hood. Keep your "vibrancy" in the ED!
This area of King Street is really destined to become a new Yorkville. It's inevitable. King West already has the Yorkville-like nightlife. The retailers simply have to wake up to the trend.
Not a chance. Yorkville is on the edge of downturn, on 2 subways lines, adjacent to the ROM, the Gardiner, Parlimament, the Annex, U of T and abuts Forest Hill and Rosedale, the two wealthiest residential neighborhoods in the city. King Street is desirable no doubt but lives in a tight, congested and inaccessible hub that attracts much more of a limited crowd. King West is more self-contained which is fine but limits its appeal.
When tourists come to Toronto I doubt very much they will wonder into King West unless the concierge at their hotel (probably in Yorkville) recommends they go somewhere there for dinner. I see King West has the potential (unrealized as of yet) to be more like SOHO if retailers follow the condos, but certainly not 5th Avenue.
Back on topic, Great design by Wallman although I personally find the street level podium too intrusive and the area borderline undesirable today. Perhaps in 5 years that will change.
Also, King West is not even remotely inaccesible! Yorkville is more of a shlep for people, say, coming from Porter. King West is also conveniently located next to the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, the Theatre District, TIFF's Lightbox, Roy Thomson Hall, the CN Tower, The Metro Toronto Convention Centre, The Rogers Centre, the waterfront, etc, etc. Yorkville is for the oldies who need to be close to their Chanel outlet lest they lose hope in civilization and perish. If that's what you mean by "Fifth Avenue", then I agree. But that's also not going against what I said.
Yorkville feeds the entire City's need for luxury. .
The developers of The Ritz, Trump, Shangri-La and Thompson Hotel feel otherwise. Care to have this debate with them?
It didn't take Shayne Dark ( or will those be Shayne Dark look-alike fries with your condo, sir? ) long to become the Kosso Eloul of the 2010s, did it?