Recent content by busybeaver

it's listed as a condo: 808 Mt Pleasant: proposed 61-storey mixed-use condominium building designed by Sweeny &Co Architects for Reserve Properties and Westdale Properties on the west side of Mt Pleasant Road, north of Eglinton Avenue East in Midtown Toronto.

that's good but I would rather see affordable housing and/or cooperatives built here than yet another condo..

This seems like the epitome of dysfunctional ‘city planning’ and worst case embodied carbon emissions..demolish a recently renovated mid-rise displacing hundreds of tenants during a housing crisis ..meanwhile mere steps away on Roehampton are these scruffy little houses.

Dec 18, 2025 ~ I spy 2 men inside Natasha!

Dec 17, 2025 ~ rise up, rise up 🎶

Community Snow ❄️ Kirk Newman’s sculpture "Community", completed in June 2001. located on the grounds of Manulife Financial's Head Office in Toronto.

Interesting to see some recent progress made - after years of delays and controversy - of another decommissioned airport housing development in Edmonton's new Blatchford community: https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/construction-going-full-steam-ahead-in-blatchford-city/

retail still for lease.. $$$?

Dec 7, 2025 - a crinkle in time..

the Imperial Pub should move in there.. but is there room to accommodate their neon sign?;)

March 25, 2025, more shiny happy siding!

you’re not going crazy.. there was a competition but it was more an exercise to explore design ideas for a public square on the southeast corner of John & King. some screenshots and from: https://yourexperienceawaits.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/DWBIA-Growth-Development-Framework-Sept-2024.pdf

October 19, 2025

I don't post pics where people's faces are visible.. and on the topic of 'distress' that can be applied to others feeling distress in the immediate neighbourhood: 'George Hislop Park, which borders Sanctuary’s property, is described in the condo board’s filing as a spillover site for drug use...

I emailed Chow and other City staff about both the Yonge St and John St improvement delays back in July and so far it's the expected radio silence. delays, inaction and non-communication being the status quo: 'The announcement that construction may not begin until 2030 is incredibly...