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If there's a restaurant up there, maybe the roof is being redesigned with a rooftop patio and that'll be a future application.

Not to mention practical items like maintenance cost sharing and insurance. Remember that condo boards are notoriously petty - do you really want to have to come to agreements with them? Find a project with a different cost sharing formula like a hotel and condos sharing maintenance of...

I think I suggested this before, but a Hudson's Bay Outfitters store akin to an Eddie Bauer or LL Bean clone (with limited outdoorsy camping, hiking and patio equipment) would probably work well.

Maybe Vancouver's Nordstrom space.

Depends on the height of the guideway, distance from it and the species of trees. They can put shorter ornamental trees like crabapples or pears etc. that won't get very tall.

Personally, I don't think the heritage building is nice enough to anchor the end of the block very well. It has small windows and entrances, forcing the hotel entrance and pedestrian activity around the corner from Bay onto Elm. But if they are going to keep it, they should shift the strip...

I think the construction is taking place where it is due to space constraints to the west. Here's a similar push launch of a bridge in Poland:

I just posted in the Vancouver Transit thread, a TransLink video of Alstom Mark V manufacture in Quebec. Were the Toronto Rockets made in Quebec? Isn't Thunder Bay the factory that had quality control issues in the past?

I didn't want to clog up the TTC thread, but relating to the new trains and manufacture - SkyTrains are made by Alstom in Quebec. Here's a TransLknk YouTube on the manufacture of the new SkyTrain Mark Vs.

I think the ceiling height on that floor is still taller than the next floor and those above that. The next floor will be the one where the windows start to get really small.

Other old MKIs being torn apart: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-mark-i-cars-retired-destroyed-scrapyard StainertheFirst update on the Surrey Langley Extension from December 2025: ... and apparently one of the gantries had a failure on December 11th:

St Barbara – the patron saint of tunnellers! Broadway Subway Project - Vancouver: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/broadway-subway-project-corporation_broadwaysubwayproject-tunnel-mining-activity-7137472907827417088-F8x_?trk=public_profile_like_view...

Is the old Simpsons/Hudson's Bay building too far away from TMU to be bought out by TMU and renovated for institutional use? What would the heritage building be worth without the office tower? AI says:

I think they are mesh panels with venting behind. Check back in the thread for pics.

This one too: