Jdot
Active Member
King and Spadina (mentioned) is screaming for a building on the Budget Car rental site. Then again, I would also like to see the Winners and the gas station just south of there gone too.
Queen and Peter (like unimaginative) said - should be some outdoor market like Camden.
Front and Spadina - the entire strip along Front to Bathurst. The extra train tracks (used for parking???) are not needed. Mid-sized buildings lining this street would help hide the tracks and would blend well with CityPlace to the south. While we are at it, the Toyota dealership on the north side needs to go, ditto with the Globe and Mail. On the north east side there needs to be more towers to fill in the parking lots across from the Matrix and Apex buildings. That has to be one of the largest parking lots downtown screaming for development. Element phase 2 - 5 definitly needed.
The parking lot beside and in front of the Harbour Commissioners Building. I say fill up the entire area bounded by the Gardiner off-ramp, AON building, Queen Quay and the Bay Street off-ramp. Filling in that section will make Harbour Square seem less isolated from the city.
Yonge and Gerrard. That's an obvious one.
Not really a parking lot, but the empty pace between the rail tracks and Bremner bwtween York and Simcoe (lower Simcoe). Sure 18 York is going there, but there should be a streetwall between the ACC and SkyDome. The grassy knoll between the CN Tower and the MTCC should also be developed with a 3 storey building.
The bus parking lot surrounded by Van de Water Crescent (just east of HVE) should be GONE GONE GONE. I have said this before, and will say it again. That parking lot should be developed into a park, joining the parking lot just south of the Gardiner, which joins the new HTO. That would link the waterfront with the Skydome/CN Tower plaza and could be a MAJOR pedestrian walkway to the waterfront from one of Toronto's busiest tourist destinations. The only obstacle to this is linking the park north of the Gardiner/Lakeshore, with the park south of the Gardiner/Lakeshore. If we are keeping the Gardiner, the only way I can see this happening is to dig Lakeshore for that section underground and cover over at least part of it with a land-bridge which could go slightly above grade.
Queen and Peter (like unimaginative) said - should be some outdoor market like Camden.
Front and Spadina - the entire strip along Front to Bathurst. The extra train tracks (used for parking???) are not needed. Mid-sized buildings lining this street would help hide the tracks and would blend well with CityPlace to the south. While we are at it, the Toyota dealership on the north side needs to go, ditto with the Globe and Mail. On the north east side there needs to be more towers to fill in the parking lots across from the Matrix and Apex buildings. That has to be one of the largest parking lots downtown screaming for development. Element phase 2 - 5 definitly needed.
The parking lot beside and in front of the Harbour Commissioners Building. I say fill up the entire area bounded by the Gardiner off-ramp, AON building, Queen Quay and the Bay Street off-ramp. Filling in that section will make Harbour Square seem less isolated from the city.
Yonge and Gerrard. That's an obvious one.
Not really a parking lot, but the empty pace between the rail tracks and Bremner bwtween York and Simcoe (lower Simcoe). Sure 18 York is going there, but there should be a streetwall between the ACC and SkyDome. The grassy knoll between the CN Tower and the MTCC should also be developed with a 3 storey building.
The bus parking lot surrounded by Van de Water Crescent (just east of HVE) should be GONE GONE GONE. I have said this before, and will say it again. That parking lot should be developed into a park, joining the parking lot just south of the Gardiner, which joins the new HTO. That would link the waterfront with the Skydome/CN Tower plaza and could be a MAJOR pedestrian walkway to the waterfront from one of Toronto's busiest tourist destinations. The only obstacle to this is linking the park north of the Gardiner/Lakeshore, with the park south of the Gardiner/Lakeshore. If we are keeping the Gardiner, the only way I can see this happening is to dig Lakeshore for that section underground and cover over at least part of it with a land-bridge which could go slightly above grade.
