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Agreed! If Five and One Yorkville can be developed while preserving the historical streetscapes, no reason why that can't be the case here.

Street level retail is indeed alive and well in Toronto, thankfully. However there are few examples of successful retail strips with an active street life that are located on side streets. Elm St, Markham, and Baldwin St come to mind but that's all I can think of.

Yes, charming smaller retail-filled streets like Newbury demonstrate exactly why places like Mirvish Village on Markham should be preserved

Markham St. between Bloor and Lennox is a successful model of street building that we should be trying to replicate rather than destroy. It's unique in the city. The notion that 'because density downtown is good' doesn't address the issue regarding whether this development's impact could be...

More of the massing could be shifted to the northern and eastern ends of the site to line the major throughfares (Bloor to the north and Bathurst to the east). Don't get me wrong, I am generally in favour of this development but city staff are right to suggest that more work needs to be done to...

I agree with you that a reasonable level of densification is warranted here given the proximity to the subway. But if it's functionality you're concerned about, I'm sure there are ways of having a highly functional development at Bloor-Bathurst while having massing that respects the historical...

Markham isn't occupied by particularly high end retail. It's used frequently by students. Advocating for the street's preservation isn't an elitist argument. Again - there is room here for density while preserving the character of the street. Honest Ed's is a huge site. Why should we not...

Because it's one of the more unique and successful streets in the city. There are very few which have its character and that historical character is worth preserving. The south side of Elm St downtown is maybe one (inferior) example but there are relatively few examples. I'm not arguing...

My point is that this is a highly successful urban street that should be a model for others. Having this proposed scale of massing pressing right up against Markham and looming over the old Victorians isn't good design IMO. It's not sensitive to the existing built form. Also - some of the...

I support many aspects of this development including the fine-grained retail along Bloor St. However I think the city is justified to have concerns about the preservation of Markham St. That stretch of Markham is one of the few examples in this city where we have retail in historic old homes...

Any indication yet of what retail is going in here?

Looks amazing. This is the kind of mid-rise form that I wish would take hold in East Bayfront.

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Aren't there more towers being planned in front of these buildings as well?

Looks like the entrance to a maximum security institution. Hopefully the landscaping and signage will warm it up.

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