kotsy
Senior Member
I immediately assumed it was unfinished too. I hope I'm right. It looks too awful to leave it like that.
I think it would work. The St Lawrence Market has fairly terrible hours if you work 9-5. It's better suited to retirees and tourists. Unless you really make a habit of visiting on Saturday, it's not convenient, even if you live nearby and work downtown.I really want this to succeed, but let's not forget we're talking about a location very much in the same catchment as St. Lawrence Market. While the take-home-veggies-to-905 segment is net new and wouldn't be being poached from St. Lawrence, there's a lot of overlap for the residential side. There's only so much artisanal mustard an L Tower resident can buy in a month, so I hope the business case is as strong as GCT.
I don't see why they'd leave it looking so industrial compared to the rest of the project.
St Lawrence market is very convenient if you work nearby. Easy enough to wander in during lunchtime, or better yet a break (less crowds). Looking at the clientele mid-week (at least in the winter), it's not mostly retirees.I think it would work. The St Lawrence Market has fairly terrible hours if you work 9-5. It's better suited to retirees and tourists.
St Lawrence market is very convenient if you work nearby. Easy enough to wander in during lunchtime, or better yet a break (less crowds). Looking at the clientele mid-week (at least in the winter), it's not mostly retirees.
I can't see there being much of this at Union. Perhaps a single greengrocer might do well, but I can't see there being butchers and fishmongers.
Metrolinx owns the GO concourses - outright via strata rights, not just a lease - which means that the detailed design of the York Concourse was entirely up to them. In addition, they also own the train shed, the Union Station Rail Corridor, and their office space within the building.
Does anyone know whether they also own the teamways? If ownership hasn't been transferred to Metrolinx, the teamways will belong to the City and the finishing decisions will belong to the City rather than Metrolinx.
We may simply be looking at separate decisions made by separate entities. "They" may not be the same "They" who are responsible for the concourse.
I'd assumed "food market" meant grocery store!
La Marche?Honestly, I think by food market (in this setting) they are using it in the new modern, replacement for food court, meaining.
La Marche?
RichTree?
Or a hybrid, in some cities I've visited, there's quite a few hybrid crosses between St. Lawrence Marketplace and a La Marche. One that both sells takeout containers and take-home groceries. I've seen a few of those botique/luxury hybrid foodmarkets. Kind of a Longos-style but a little more like La Marche (but more open and separate cash registers for each station) with more premium food options. Less farmer market, more commercial, but still botique.
No....I think it is intended to be a fancier version of what we commonly call a food court....that is a bunch of prepared food outlets around a variety of seating arrangements. It may include restos like marche or RichTree but it is not limited to them.
I may be wrong on this but "food market" is a term that has been co-opted to rebrand food courts as something nicer/better sounding. look at the first tenants announced....they are not "markets" they are restaurants selling burgers and chicken and the like.
St Lawrence market is very convenient if you work nearby. Easy enough to wander in during lunchtime, or better yet a break (less crowds).
There are many times when I have gone grocery shopping on my lunch, taken my perishable groceries back to the office fridge, and then taken my groceries home at the end of the day. A lot more convenient than going after work when I have free time on my lunch.Hahah, yeah let me just take this 3 kg of raw fish back to the office kitchenette...
I've certainly stuck a kilo in the office fridge before. Well wrapped. Probably far less scary than some of the long-forgotten lunches growing in there ...Hahah, yeah let me just take this 3 kg of raw fish back to the office kitchenette...
If your after bread products, there won't be any left by early afternoon - so morning or lunchtime trips are a must.There are many times when I have gone grocery shopping on my lunch, taken my perishable groceries back to the office fridge, and then taken my groceries home at the end of the day. A lot more convenient than going after work when I have free time on my lunch.