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Don't forget the Spadina line extension to Vaughan when considering the impact of a westward expansion of the sheppard line. Someone in Vaughan would be able to get to the Yonge line (anywhere north of St Clair) or Scarbourgh CC far more easily - or the other way around after the inevitable...

During community consultations Menkes proposed paying to move Gibson House a stones through to the south to front on Park Home Ave. It would have been a very visible centre piece on the long park on the north side of Park Home. However, the historical purists would not agree to moving the home...

What's really missing from the area is a critical mass of good restaurants (like you see running north from Yonge & Eg). Hopefully the extra density from Hullmark, Emerald Park & Gibson will entice some of the stronger restaurant entrepreneurs to move into the area. Once you get a few brave...

Sunnyray, P&G does not own the building south of the Hullmark Centre - it's a Menkes owned building. P&G just leases roughly 2/3 of the building which allows them to get their logo on the outside and over entrances.

I think I figured it out - the first image is of the site - it's been fascinating watching the meticulous demo and sorting of materials. The second image shows the site across the street where Emerald Park will go. I'm going to have fun watching both these projects going up from my office.

I have a birds eye (from above) image of the demo from this morning that would be great to share. However I can't make sense of the instructions under FAQ to insert images. I can only upload images for a new thread - but how do I get them into this thread? Hopefully someone out there can...

I was guessing Cadbury had more space because their name was on the building :D (Kraft is at Don Mills & York Mills). Taxes are set by the Cities. Toronto has higher commercial taxes but lower property taxes than the 905 cities. That's why you see a $500M house in the 905 paying more...

The office building in front of the Toronto Centre for the Arts may have potential. Kraft recently purchased Cadbury and Cadbury occupies a good chunk of space in this building. If Cadbury were to leave this would free up some prime space. The City deperately needs to entice office...

I'm not crazy about the mini-mall - it's going to be a dead area. You're not going to have the foot traffic you see in the Sheppard Centre or Empress Walk or the future Hullmark Centre. A small food court a ground level - easily accessible from outside would have sufficed. The entire second...

Great news, not just because it fills a gap in North York Centre but because it delivers a well designed building - something sorely lacking in this area. Hopefully, a successful project here will put pressure on other developers to improve their building designs. Until people start voting...

That's partly correct - they won't be putting a garage under the western portion of the park (too far from the buildings) nor the "Rose Garden" (little patch of greenery) at the north-west corner of Yonge & Park Home - so the more mature trees here would stay. The travesty is putting the...

Doesn't this building fail in terms of wind reduction? The builidings are flush with the podium and not set back a bit so I believe this means any wind from the West will hit the buildings and go straight down to the street (instead of hitting the top of a podium). This lack of set back...

I heard Menkes purchased the lot of the SW corner - let's hope it ends up an office bldg instead of another condo. I agree that Hullmark will greatly improve the aesthetic of the area. However, this area desperately needs to improve it's pedestrian appeal. The development 2 blocks to the...

What a disappointment. It look likes the retail fronting Yonge St. will be more of those awful shoe box sized store fronts that Tridel brought to the north. The best main streets in the city - Beaches, Greektown, Leaside, etc have wider store fronts. Why doesn't the city learn from these...

Just to be clear, I heard Menkes purchased the site but I have no ideas what their intentions are for the site. I agree, a commercial bldg or at least a mixed use bldg makes the most sense.

I heard Menkes purchased the SW corner. If this is true, this could end up being another OMB battle like Gibson Square where the city wants a commercial bldg while Menkes wants condos.