Recent content by TossYourJacket

And there's not enough condos for his developer backers

I laugh so that I don't cry. It's giving "what if we clad a prison in brick!". which is arguably unfair to prisons as many have better architecture than this. Just absolutely hideous.

This building is going to look great. Although I'll admit I'm mostly (anxiously) waiting for signs of the colonnade happening along the south side. Dundas really could use wider sidewalks here, so it would be great if it happens.

Surely the luxury condo market will rebound any second now! Although I guess for renting luxury retail, you'd probably say anything rather than admit there's a Fabricland at 19 Bloor W.

Personally I'm much more worried about the underpinning at Pape Station delaying the line than I am about the downtown tunnel, given underpinning at Eglinton was a huge issue for the Crosstown.

Ford didn't randomly dream up this station like the floating convention centre or the 401 tunnel so he doesn't care about spending money on it. The other ideas get more money because he wants to have a signature legacy project like Ontario Place was for Bill Davis (which also might be why he...

I feel like there are locations in the city where they could have opened up on a trendy main street and it would have worked because it had a distinctive niche, and it would have been a good fit for the neighbourhood, but the Eaton Centre is basically about as mainstream of a mall as you can...

Totally agree, plus the fact they kept releasing new renders periodically where it got worse every time didn't help. So it wasn't just a one-time downgrade, it was several. Looking back through the renderings, I'd forgotten how many versions of this we've gotten from MX, and how while it was...

While the sentiment is nice, the problem with naming things for people is that it tells a visitor to (or new resident of) Toronto absolutely nothing about where the station is located, which should be the point of a transit station name. Neighbourhoods, local attractions, and most obviously...

I've seen 519 tossed around a few times. Personally I'd save that for if we ever put a streetcar back on Church St (since the community centre near Church and Wellesley is the 519, so it just has a nice synergy there). That said, I hope when we get streetcars going further down Cherry we can...

Spending money to accomplish things in the short term that later becomes a waste because there is no funding for the actual long term plan is a chronic problem for the city. It's unfortunate, but our politicians don't want to approve things with large dollar budget numbers, so spending less...

IIRC that is the plan. Every escalator (outside of the ones inside stores like H&M) will be modernised. Not sure but maybe the staircase they added earlier in this renovation program was meant to solve for evacuation capacity during renovations.

It looks great. City Planning will absolutely demand it get replaced with tower-on-podium structures that look infinitely worse.

I just hope this is the only car dealership in the Portlands. If we rebuild this whole part of the city and it has minimal purpose beyond selling cars to rich people? not great!

I highly doubt Ford has looked at a map of how deep the lake is wherever he's proposing this island. Also, this could be a preemptive backup plan for if/when the Therme spa fails. Just build a convention centre instead!