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There's an article in the Star today about the class action lawsuit over the balcony railings.

I believe that meeting's for 460, not 501.

Most of the details in this Torontoist article will be familiar to people who read the article greenleaf posted here last week... but I suppose we might as well throw a link in here anyway, for completeness' sake if nothing else.

According to a notice mailed around to neighbourhood residents, a community consultation meeting for this proposal is scheduled for Wed. Feb. 29 at 7pm (open house at 6:30), in the 2nd floor auditorium of the YMCA on Grosvenor. Also, I don't see a link to this in the thread yet...

I have no useful information to add, so instead I'll impart my wild guess as to where this might go, based solely on where there's a corner lot on Queen West that desperately needs rebuilding: Queen & Euclid, where that dumpy little 1-storey TD bank currently sits. Fingers crossed!

Yeah, I made the mistake of going to their website for information too. Instead of anything remotely useful, I found Flash animation and annoying music that couldn't be turned off. If anybody happens to know the web designer for this project, please do me a personal favour and karate chop them...

Carman's I notice the long-vacant Carman's restaurant property on Alexander has been sold. Has anybody heard anything about who bought it, or what they intend to do with it?

No, there's no confirmation of anything, I was just speculating wildly. If the project does indeed include a major retail tenant (Target or whatever) it seems like a logical place to put that might be on top of the 2-3 storey section fronting Yonge St., where the Media Monstrosity currently...

Any chance this addition could result in the removal of that god-awful "media tower" (which is a mighty grandiose name for a pile of scaffolding bedecked in cheap vinyl banners advertizing crummy CTV shows)?

Finally! After years of grand proposals, dreams, and false starts, at last we have a visionary plan for this site that we can all get behind! A surface parking lot! And a taxi stand! Be still my beating heart!

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure there's a precedent for that nearby, with the Alexander Street Parkette. I assume that little staircase leads to the parking garage for 25 Maitland. Not that I necessarily think we need to buy this land and stick a public park there, but I guess it could...

I'm pretty sure most of the people in the crowd wouldn't put a 58-storey anything there... more likely a 3-storey faux-Victorian :) Anyway, you were one of the relatively few speakers who I agreed with. It doesn't really matter whether the towers on top of that podium are 58 storeys or 46 or...

Speaking of Sizzlers, this may not be the most relevant information in the world, but they appear to have been evicted. They're closed and there's a notice of termination taped to the door, dated today.

It certainly is comically amateurish, but it has a certain charm to it. Obviously this isn't the slick marketing machine of a multimillion dollar condo development we're dealing with here... I'm imagining somebody's nephew slaving away at the computer for hours putting that image together. So I...

Wow, whoever made that rendering is pretty handy with MS Paint :).

Well I certainly hope they don't tear down the heritage building... but I shall also be saddened if we lose Fire on the East Side and Olympic 76. Where else am I supposed to go for brunch poutine or a deep-fried panzerotto the size of a football?

The diagram seems to show the front of the building going right to the property line. Would it have killed them to set it back a couple metres to line up with the Marriott to the south (and the blocks south of that) and provide a wider sidewalk? Seems like a no-brainer, honestly. A wider...

Personally, I have nothing against glass boxes per se. There are, as you point out, some perfectly lovely glass boxes around the city. It's impossible to tell from this simple elevation sketch, but this could well turn out to be a wonderfully executed glass box, a model of restrained elegance...

I get that you were (obviously) just trying to give a sense of the scale, and you did a bang-up job of it. I meant that I doubt the final building design will consist of a 58-storey red outline in the sky, and I hope it's also not a pair of monotonous boxes like the ones depicted in the...

OK, I know it's totally unfair to judge a building based on a tiny distorted preliminary line drawing, but... well let's just say I hope that's an exceedingly poor representation of the finished product. As in, no more accurate than dt_toronto_geek's red-outline visualization from a while back...