Toronto The Well | 174.03m | 46s | RioCan | Hariri Pontarini

You can barely call this kerning, the letters are spaced far enough apart that there's not really an attempt to kern them, but space them in fact… and one is supposed to notice that T H E is one line of light while W E L L has two lines. I'm not saying this works great, but to declare THEWELL might be to miss reasonably obvious details?

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I'm also not sure the person meant kerning or tracking here. As I don't see any awkward spaces between any of the letters (kerning), while the spacing between all letters (tracking) appears to be fine...so the latter maybe an issue of personal taste. /shrug
 
Mar 14, 2023

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um, there are a lot of great restaurants with great food downtown
I wouldn’t say immediately downtown; you gotta head out to the fine-grained streets just outside the core to get away from the corporate or premium-looking-but-bland fare.

Old Toronto has that variety of strip malls but in a denser environment… you could walk for hours being surrounded by great eats and pick any of them. It has spontaneity on its side.
 
Tenant list reads closely to a suburban strip mall…
True but what did you expect? I like the building (and walk past it quite often) but it is poorly connected to transit and if you want to open a 'specialised" or 'one-off' store I would think you would want to be near transit so it was easy to get to for everyone.
 
Tenant list reads closely to a suburban strip mall…
the only 5 tenants that overlap with a typical strip mall are the three banks, Indigo, and Shoppers Drug Mart really..

A lot of these are smaller chains, yes, but they are smaller chains which are relatively unique in the Toronto market.

Small local mom and pop type places can't post the rents in brand new spaces like this, ultimately. This is pretty close to what I originally imagined the tenant list to be. It was never going to be a regional shopping centre, nor was it going to be filled with little mom and pop shops serving up cheap dim sum or the like.

To me the big disappointments are leasing out a lot of the upper level to office tenants and giving all the restaurants over to a single operator.
 

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