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I think this thread and its associated database entry are obsoleted by the ones for Joy Station, no?

I'm having a great deal of difficulty imagining Markham approving this with the current parking ratio. This is not a particularly walkable neighbourhood -- the nearest grocery stores are the better part of a kilometre away via vast expanses of stroad and parking lots. The proximity to the GO...

The Loblaws(ish thing) at Peter and Richmond appears as if it might be opening fairly imminently. Peeking around the paper on the windows reveals unmistakeably Loblawsy interior finishes more or less complete, and even some products on the shelves. All it's missing is a "Grand Opening...

A little slow on the uptake I guess, but I didn't notice the black brick on the "heritage" facade until today. I was surprised, because I thought the idea was to replicate the original, but I think it's going to look pretty sharp. Sort of capturing some of the original detail without looking...

So it appears Carmen's (after briefly being the subject of redevelopment speculation) has been resurrected as... Carmen's. At least, they have a banner out front that says "now open", but it looked pretty quiet and their reopening does not appear to have made much of a splash online. Has anybody...

The preview for next week's episode of Amazing Race Canada shows teams rappelling or otherwise dangling off the side of L Tower. Not sure when that was filmed but I'm sure people can figure it out by the construction progress.

The new sign is already up for its replacement, something called Kintaro Yakitori Izakaya, although it doesn't appear to be open yet. The quick turnaround and similar format lead me to wonder if it's merely a reno / rebranding as opposed to a whole new tenant. Either way, I hope they do better...

There is no Phase 2 (currently). They included a "theoretical" tower to the north in their shadow studies, on the grounds that somebody might build one there someday, but it was just a slightly dishonest way of masking the shadow impact of their own building. When asked, Tribute confirmed that...

Yeah, I was there. It got off to a slightly rocky start, in that nobody showed up to unlock the venue and the organizers had to scramble to find a last-minute space in the hotel across the street, but once the actual meeting got underway it went pretty smoothly. Aside from the usual "ZOMG it's...

According to a notice sent to local residents, the community consultation meeting for this project is this Tuesday, June 18, 7pm, at St Andrew's Lutheran Church (Jarvis & Carlton).

You want to move an entire block of century-old buildings clear across town to make room for a marginally larger park? Well, that's certainly ambitious, I'll give you that. I think there's plenty of room on this site for worthwhile-sized park and a condo tower, even without incorporating the...

This is an awfully narrow site for a high rise -- as rfabian points out they don't really have room to conform to the setback guidelines; setting the building back 12.5m from the side property line would move it off the other side of the property altogether. It's also pretty close to 40...

It looks like the plan to demolish the rather dreadful Lawrence Square mall and extend Marlee through has been dropped. Anybody know what happened there? Did RioCan just decide they wanted to go it alone? The street alignment in the plan as it stands would seem to leave it open as a possibility...

I see no reason why they need such a big loop there, and I left them a driveway to access the parking garage. Be that as it may, you may be entirely correct about it not happening, especially if it's under different ownership. Is it, though? Isn't the parking garage ramp at the north end part of...

Hmm, I hadn't heard this suggestion before, but I like it. A relatively small park combined with the little park they already have behind the Y, without the street cutting through the middle of it, would add up to a pretty decent sized green space. Maybe a little something like this (only not so...

The Village Green Tenant Alliance (who I believe has a representative on the working group panel) is circulating a flyer claiming that Lanterra has reduced the proposal to 48 + 52 storeys. I don't recall hearing anything about that at the last working group meeting, but I may have missed one...

Oishii Sushi is temporarily closed to rebrand themselves as "Chuo Izakaya". I guess they figured Church St needed another Guu wannabe.

The sign on the door says "our lease is officially over, and we are now required to vacate the premises". It doesn't say anything about them reopening in a new location, but it does direct their customers across the street to Flash, which apparently is run by the same people.

That's actually a pretty reasonable approximation of what we were shown, except that the south block of the podium (visible only in the background of one rendering as I recall) appeared to be windowless white textured concrete or something. Like, patterns of lines running every which way. The...

I missed the first two working group meetings, but I sat in on the third one tonight. The architect presented some revisions to the podium design, ostensibly based on community feedback at the last meeting. This would probably be a lot more interesting with pictures of the renderings, but here...