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It's comforting to know Toronto has such low standard when it comes to the city's most prominent public square. A few plants are not going to save it. It is not horrible but shall I say mediocre, unimpressive by any means. The square, the garden, the arts. Everything is bland - and yes maybe...

well easy for you to say but what will happen when those 55+ are dead or too old to walk in 15 years? Look at the new business in Chinatown. Nothing targets the old immigrants. The old ones are increasingly being replaced. The demographic is changing, of course the business model should too...

I hope the Chinatown Centre will be redevelopment some day. I honestly don't know who actually go there, ever, maybe except those old immigrants over 55 years old. It looks so 1990.

Fair enough, although judging by the interior the investment doesn't seem to be immense, and they probably can recover a good portion. On the other hand it is a business risk any business faces unless you own the property. I think they should expected those buildings will be sold sooner or...

If that's case, you would be terribly wrong. Even a retail street in a small town like Pasadena can match our "unbroken" retail. For DT Toronto, case in point is Bathurst, Beverly, University, all of these show an utter lack of retail, and are extremely boring. I won't argue further because...

when you said "unbroken", you mean one single street assumes all the retail activity nearby? I am not sure if that's something we should use as a model. If the Bathurst/Front/Bloor/Parliament downtown is interspersed with retail on most large and small streets, you wouldn't call if "unbroken"...

Having retail only on a few main streets is not a character of downtown, but a character of small towns - go to Niagara on the lake, or Barrie or any small city in North America, you have retail only on one street behind which it is all homes. How is that a Toronto character? I advocate for...

No one is suggesting copying Paris, but the fact Toronto lacks continuous retail outside Yonge and Queen is obvious. Ideally half of downtown side streets should work like Elm/Baldwin. Instead they remain pure residential like in the suburbs.

If we did need another mall downtown, it shouldn't be near Eaton Centre. Should be eastside since there isn't much retail at all.

There is no reason why the railroad can't be buried too.

It's fair to compare central Paris with central Toronto.

That's what I have been saying. People are thinking what the city theoretically needs instead of what the people will be using. Most people will likely visit this museum twice in their lives. I don't think that's the best use of this building.

central Paris largely looks like that, not exactly like but the point being nodal retail on most side streets, not just a few main drags. That's what is discussed here. I used to stay at the 13th district, nothing too touristy but all the small retail along the mixed used streets impressed me...

Consistency is the one thing Toronto doesn't have. Even Queen West and prime Yonge have so many gaps, along with many weird one story slabs between. If that is not walkable, I don't what is. Streets in Toronto, even downtown, tends to be too wide. Jarvis and Spadina etc look ridiculous with...

But you have explained yourself, Toronto is timid. Shanghai is currently building 6 subway lines at the same time as we speak, and has completed 5 cross river tunnels in the past decade (8 being planned), while we keep talking about the DRL or burying the Gardiner as a pie in the sky, for the...

Ok, suppose we have enough fantastic stuff to show, it is likely to charge $20, and most people in Toronto end up visiting it once or twice in their life time. Do you go to see the ROM or AGO every week or even every month? The reason I oppose a museum is it doesn't exactly provide a space for...

Speaking of Apple, I still don't understand why Apple shouldn't move out the Eaton Centre and establish a stand alone store nearby, for example, that large nice building which used to be the Urban Outfitter (or Buffalo?) seems to be vacant. Looking at the Apple store in Paris, NYC or Shanghai...

Yes, people do need those things and I have no objections to them. What I meant is Bay st should provide a lot more than those. It is unbearably boring. Take Paris for example, most of its streets are mixed used as well and the ground floor retail didn't end up being all banks and dry cleaners...

Hahaha, a mall. On second thought, it is actually a better idea than the current use. At least a mall provide public access. Why not a library? The one at City Hall is way too small. I always find the reference library at Yonge/Bloor too far. It is a beautiful and grand building. There can be a...

which those streets don't have. Mall? Who mentioned malls? What service offered on Bay? Calling those dry clean and shoppers retail is disgraceful.