Recent content by valkoholic

Just a guess here, but I think he may have been referring to the northwest corner, which just changed hands.

The weight of the buildings keeps them anchored onto bedrock. The problem with a hollow tunnel is it will actually want to float to the surface if it's underwater. It would need to be anchored to the bedrock, which would be very expensive.

It looks a bit weird, but to be honest I prefer it to the new LCBO and Shoppers accross the street. Nothing against booze and drugs, but those things are more problematic to me as stand-alone mini-boxes. At least this project is mixed-use and has a narrow frontage.

Didn't the City also cap density at 3.5x along the Sheppard corridor versus the 5.0x planned?

I'm very surprised this is being built on spec.. I don't believe any of the recent towers have been built without a major tenant (RBC, Bay-Adelaide West, Telus, PWC, etc.). Either it's a good sign (there's so much demand for small leases the risk is worth it) or a bad sign (office market is as...

The site isn't zoned, it will be out of the running for any new tennant. CF has a zoned site at ICE that would come first. The pattern downtown is the big owners like to have one site zoned at any given time in order to respond to proposals from tennants. If the ICE tower goes ahead I would...

Eh? So every other business in the City is run for the benefit of the people and a casino is run for the benefit of Evil Inc.? I'm lost as to how a restaurant at a casino would take away jobs from a restaurant near a casino. I wish gambling was on Vaughan's list of fun things to do...

I think this project was under 'juridstiction' of the waterfront design review panel, which has different members than the DRP. If I recall Kuwabara is leading it.

This strikes me as Metrolinx trying to give itself another reason to exist. Ideally they would've financed, planned, and built the region's transit upgrades but they've lost the financing and planning jobs so they're trying to get into local operations.

Won't it also ruin their view of the expressway? I love how CBC will rush to cover any local news provided a) someone phones them and gives them the idea and, b) it's within a 5 minute drive of their broadcast centre.

I agree that our multitude of school systems is a large part of the problem. That's what makes it tough to solve. If someone wants to take on the Catholic Church (separate schools), Quebec (French Immersion), and b'nai brith (Jewish private) at the same time I'd love to watch. This would...

I'm sorry, but if someone can't understand that sign then maybe they're not ready for the complexities of urban driving. I agree though, this walk-to-school thing is an issue. Tough one to solve.

I'm happy that the City is having a real debate about transit funding. Squabbling aside, this debate is a necessary first step if transit is ever going to improve in the City. What I'm really disappointed by is the lack of leadership from Metrolinx. Every single important issue here (paying...

I didn't mean the condo entrance should be from Yonge (it shouldn't). But if this were to have significant retail it would make sens for the retail entrance to be from Yonge even if it were just to lead to the bulk of the retail that would be located in the bookstore site. I don't have...

Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, which is kind of like a park, is locked at night. I've had to hop a fence to get out.