Recent content by Dr. Snoot

Sadly I don't think this includes any of the properties along Eastern Avenue. It is only a parcel that is mid-block at 4 Gilead Place.

College Street is truly cursed.

Probably my least favourite new building in downtown Toronto, Time and Space aside. The most drab colours imaginable (even in sunny conditions), bulky and blocky, spandrely, no particular architectural expression. And its unfortunately prominent. It looks like something that would have been...

In your opinion, based on zero concrete information, which I think you've voiced a half-dozen times now.

Why are you so weirdly negative about this? It's a pilot project. If it works it works, it it doesn't it doesn't.

Aside from "usefulness", this seems like it would be fantastic for tourists, especially when Ontario Place and the parks on Ookwemin Island are completed. You get to see Toronto from the water, go to the Island, have lunch on the Waterfront, see the new Ontario Place or go to the spa. I'm very...

Still ugly. Still massively oversized. There's a reason they never show the top in the renders.

Approved at TEYCC on April 1: https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2026.TE31.13

Second crane being assembled today.

Also, if a train went by anywhere near me at 300 km/h (especially coming from behind, blowing wind and snow), I would absolutely crash my car.

I think the idea is to introduce an understory of plants beneath the trees, substituting it for lawn. I don't think this is a bad idea, as it provides an attraction while leaving lots of lawn area. They're proposing to fence it off for 15 years to allow the plants to establish and not be...

!!! They're closing my backdoor Costco entrance :(

Can confirm. Rather bright 😛

I have been ready for 5+ years. :)

Just a friendly reminder that since the province tried to demolish these heritage buildings by cloak and dagger in 2020 because of the "urgent" need for affordable housing and secretly sold the site to Aspen Ridge after gifting them an undemocratic MZO, the sites have sat vacant as surface...