LUVIT!
Senior Member
I'm looking forward to seeing some of these developments in this area starting. One can only wonder what the time frame will be? The new park will be a huge draw.
Toronto 120 Bouchette Street | 198.12m | 56s | DevColl | Turner Fleischer
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Years? Decades? Well into the 2030s, for certain.
Koops65
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HousingNowTO
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Adding to the watch-list to see which Affordable Housing option actually gets implemented...
...my preference would be "OPTION 2" = approx. ~114 units for 99 years.
It is a much better outcome than ~175 units for 25 years (OPTION 1).
Northern Light
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You'll likely be waiting awhile........10 years? Maybe longer. We'll see, ya never know. But this one is not 'coming soon'.
AlexBozikovic
Active Member
As much as we need new housing, this is bad news. It is locking in a vision for the area that makes no sense.
The entire McCleary District plan is fatally flawed. Too many roads, massively overscaled roads, far too much open space, the nonsense PIC idea which will turn into self-storage or big-box stores, 40-metre tower separation… this is a recipe for bulky very tall buildings separated by vast areas of useless space dominated by cars.
Does anybody believe any part of this will be clad in brick? Why a 10 storey base building? Why is the courtyard full of cars and loading bays? Why is there an onsite outdoor amenity when there is a huge empty park across the street and an adjacent street that is 120 feet wide and (theoretically) lined with shops?
Obviously, this is a value increase exercise.
The best thing that could happen is a consolidation of this and the adjacent private sites into a comprehensive redo of the plan. Rightsize the streets. design public spaces that are fewer in number but have proportions and adjacencies that will actually make them successful. Marginalize cars.
Apologies to the people who worked on this project, but it’s not good, folks.
The entire McCleary District plan is fatally flawed. Too many roads, massively overscaled roads, far too much open space, the nonsense PIC idea which will turn into self-storage or big-box stores, 40-metre tower separation… this is a recipe for bulky very tall buildings separated by vast areas of useless space dominated by cars.
Does anybody believe any part of this will be clad in brick? Why a 10 storey base building? Why is the courtyard full of cars and loading bays? Why is there an onsite outdoor amenity when there is a huge empty park across the street and an adjacent street that is 120 feet wide and (theoretically) lined with shops?
Obviously, this is a value increase exercise.
The best thing that could happen is a consolidation of this and the adjacent private sites into a comprehensive redo of the plan. Rightsize the streets. design public spaces that are fewer in number but have proportions and adjacencies that will actually make them successful. Marginalize cars.
Apologies to the people who worked on this project, but it’s not good, folks.
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Why do you think the objective here, or anywhere really, was / is 'good urbanism'?