Toronto Church of Scientology | ?m | 8s

[egotrippin]

I agree. It could looks slightly better with a new window system and after a good clean up... but that's it. Lipstick on a pig. Plus, never been a fan of that brick tone.



Yeah? I wonder, what's the story about this building?

Most of prewar Toronto was viewed as endlessly disposable due to its "dated" and "dreary" architecture at one point too. Let's not head down the same regrettable, and ignorant path that led to the destruction of a lot of Toronto's preexisting built form throughout the '70s. Much like the Victorian cityscape at one point, our Modernist and mid-century heritage is in great danger due to a lack of understanding and appreciation.

 

[Bayer]

It also needs central air conditioning, if such a retrofit is possible. I would never lease an office with window units.

 

[zang]

I walked by the building this morning and noticed that not much has actually changed in the nearly four years since they shut down for renovations. It looks empty and I see no workers and there are numerous broken windows and graffiti all over. Doesn't this cross into abandoned property bylaws by now? Geez, I mean, a whole building was built, finished and occupied behind it in the time since this thread started. Is this project even going ahead any more? 'Cause it certainly doesn't look like it.

 

[interchange42]

The Cult of Scientology seems to be a little shorter on cash than they try to make believe. Here's hoping they default on the property taxes and the City swoops in.

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[AlvinofDiaspar]

The Cult of Scientology seems to be a little shorter on cash than they try to make believe. Here's hoping they default on the property taxes and the City swoops in.

Indeed! Karma for losing Brothers to it.

AoD

 

[DSC]

I walked by the building this morning and noticed that not much has actually changed in the nearly four years since they shut down for renovations. It looks empty and I see no workers and there are numerous broken windows and graffiti all over. Doesn't this cross into abandoned property bylaws by now? Geez, I mean, a whole building was built, finished and occupied behind it in the time since this thread started. Is this project even going ahead any more? 'Cause it certainly doesn't look like it.

If you have a Property Standards complaint you can submit it to 311.

 

[Skeezix]

The City's property standards by-law is here (the property standards requirements start on page 11).

 

[ProjectEnd]

Happier days...

 

[maestro]

I walked by the building this morning and noticed that not much has actually changed in the nearly four years since they shut down for renovations. It looks empty and I see no workers and there are numerous broken windows and graffiti all over. Doesn't this cross into abandoned property bylaws by now? Geez, I mean, a whole building was built, finished and occupied behind it in the time since this thread started. Is this project even going ahead any more? 'Cause it certainly doesn't look like it.

This may explain it
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...er-100000-as-yonge-bloor-site-languishes.html

 

[sixtysixdays]

They also seemed to have scaled down the renovation plans (and improved).

 

[stjames2queenwest]

Yes that is an improvement but what would be ideal is if they sold it, and left the city.

 

[zang]

It would be even better if the property seized, and the new owners use the original redesign (sans Scientology signage) and open up shop as Canada's first museum of quackery and fraud.

 

[adma]

Trouble with using the original redesign is that it negates the current "restoration" gesture, whatever one may think of Scientology. Best to save said quackery/fraud museum for, I guess, the Trump Tower...

 

[Automation Gallery]

i sure hope a developer buys this and a bunch of buildings south (excluding the heritage row-houses that are worth keeping)

 

[ProjectEnd]

The degree to which these cretins are allowing this beautiful structure to decay is criminal.