Toronto The AvenDale | ?m | 19s | Minto Group | Diamond Schmitt

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The building is conservative but fits in well with its neighbours. That stretch of Avenue Road has some nice consistent modern architecture.

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Conservative ?? Try more like RETRO ... sure it fits in with some of the apartments on Avenue Road, but this design looks like it was taken off a old drawing from the 1970s .... even The Lonsdale condominiums across the street located to the east of this site looks more 'modern' than this proposal :eek:
 
Yup, sure seems like it. Drove by during the weekend and the sales centre had been stripped, revealing the old house underneath.
 
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A lot of work to just walk away in the end. I wonder why Minto gave up on it?
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Really poor sales and high prices (even for the area). They were targeting a lot of people who lived in the area in the hope that they would sell their house and "downsize" to a condo. Their pricing wasn't aligned with that.
Secondly its a complicated site due to the rental property. Whomever tears down the rental building has to be re-build the same amount of rental units (I think at rent controlled prices - but don't quote me on that). The Avondale therefore was basically a two-tier world: apartments which had their own entrance and no amenities and a separate entrance for high priced condo owners. A lot of people who looked at the building were actually turned off by how different Minto treated both parties. (They thought it was kinda gross to completely separate "classes").
 
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