khris
Senior Member
Well, some cranes poured some concrete, and voila!
hey, new joiner, but i've beenfollowing for some time... just wanted to ask...how did this parking garage happen?
Oh Khris, you know as well as anyone that Ian really means "how is it that someone approved such a big, ugly, above ground concrete bunker of a parking garage?" as it's a rhetorical question a lot of us have asked ourselves too. Maybe when all is said and done we'll find that the cladding chosen will be the most stunning ever applied in the GTA to such a carbuncle as this...
Oh Khris, you know as well as anyone that Ian really means "how is it that someone approved such a big, ugly, above ground concrete bunker of a parking garage?"
Such a large parking garage is not needed along Hurontario Street. The city screwed up big time here.
The tower probably also should not have been allowed in the first place. There probably should have been a height limit for this property.
Yeah, there's currently no height restrictions in the MCC area, so slapping one on this building while allowing 56s one block away would be pretty silly.
^ Above-ground parking for new developments is no longer permitted in MCC.
Office development of three or four floors along Robert Speck Parkway is unrealistic. This is some of the most valuable land in the GTA, outside the core of Toronto and a very few other locations. It would be quite uneconomic to build offices at three or four floors, just for the sake of minimizing parking (which is to say, really, minimizing density). This is a neighbourhood where the entire name of the game is to create density.
Well, high rise office buildings in MCC are not economical either, which is why there has only been one office building built in MCC in the past 15 years.
I did not call for a reduction in office space though. A reduction in height doesn't necessarily mean a reduction in space...