modernizt
Senior Member
As someone who lives in the area: replace pocket parks with more retail? Hell no.
I'd love to see how that would be possible with preserving the same number and GFA of RGI units, about double the amount of market units, reconnecting the old street grid, while maintaining largely the same amount of green space at grade (give or take). I'm not saying it's impossible, in fact I'd hope it is possible, I just think it's more challenging than "there's lots of room".
No. The goal is to create a mixed-income development by adding market units, not by reducing the RGI units. In Regent Park, the number and GFA of the RGI units was maintained.
I'd love to see how that would be possible with preserving the same number and GFA of RGI units, about double the amount of market units, reconnecting the old street grid, while maintaining largely the same amount of green space at grade (give or take). I'm not saying it's impossible, in fact I'd hope it is possible, I just think it's more challenging than "there's lots of room".
Look at all the surface parking that could go.
I have a similar dream.Can't wait to see them redeveloped... it's been a (perhaps irrational) dream of mine to have Seaton, Ontario and Berkeley reconnected.
I'd have to look in person, but I wonder if there's enough room to reconnect the streets now, even without the removal of the "giant M" buildings.There's lots of room between Queen, Shuter, Sherbourne and Parliament for additional density. And rebuilding the street grids here would be a massive improvement. And I'd put retail back on Queen where a small park currently is.
I'd have to look in person, but I wonder if there's enough room to reconnect the streets now, even without the removal of the "giant M" buildings.