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    Toronto Union Park | 303.26m | 58s | Oxford Properties | Pelli Clarke Pelli

    So turns out Simons expanded into Halifax literally yesterday lol. Also their CEO has said Toronto and Vancouver are underserved by their stores, so they're almost certainly looking at options in Toronto. What those options are though, idk.
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    City of Toronto - Affordable Housing Master Thread

    I can't wait for the insane NIMBY excuses why nothing can be built here lol.
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    Toronto TD Terrace (160 Front W) | 239.87m | 46s | Cadillac Fairview | AS + GG

    Sadly, I think we all know "THE RAINBOW LIGHTS ARE CORRUPTING THE CHILDREN" is coming in June 🙃 And while I hate the general corporatization of Pride, TD has been the main sponsor for years, so hopefully they'll keep those rainbow lights up.
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    Toronto 592 Gerrard East | ?m | ?s

    I can't wait for this to be a "beloved community parking lot" (plz ignore the lack of actual parking) now that they want to build housing here 🤣
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    Mayor Olivia Chow's Toronto

    I was looking at the Star article about this and there was a comment that I think sums up the opposition: "why don't they just go to their friends' backyards instead?" And I don't think it was poorly intentioned, but it shows how a subset of people in Toronto don't realise how many people don't...
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    Toronto Ridiculous NIMBYism thread

    I bet most of the people who signed the petition A) own homes, and B) don't live in the area and just don't want to give up cheap parking.
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    Simons

    You'd think they could have at least put one at Yorkdale if Oxford was going to be difficult. Instead they made it difficult for anyone in Toronto to shop there. Ugh. Simons is the single thing I miss the most about living in Ottawa.
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    Toronto 10 Ordnance Park | ?m | ?s | City of Toronto | DTAH

    Maybe since nothing will happen here until the OL is at least mostly built we can get something less bland and mediocre here. Like I am a full believer in having a large open-lawn space, but there needs to be more than that in a park this size. Bring back the swimming pool tbh.
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    Toronto Ontario Line: Osgoode Station | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | HDR

    While I think Metrolinx made a mistake with not including high-speed elevators in the design of the downtown stations, I don't know what else people expected them to build here. The RL stations were also planned to be very deep, so it's not like this is new. It's a corridor where you have to...
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    Toronto 543 Yonge Street | 228.85m | 68s | CentreCourt | Arcadis

    The back half of the tower is fine, but what on earth is going on with the front half? Fussy and overdone. Also, way too large of a residentially lobby entrance on Yonge. Why kill our main street with grandiose condo lobbies?
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    Toronto The Pemberton | 215.79m | 68s | Pemberton | a—A

    I think we're getting to the point where CentreCourt could have built an entire building faster than Pemberton can get a building to grade.
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    Toronto 252 Church | 166.1m | 52s | CentreCourt | Arcadis

    Social looks a little less terrible than usual in these pictures! Just a little.
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    Problematic Park Design - Why Some Parks Don't Work

    I think maybe just the dog park inside the driveway loop opened, since I remember that being delayed for ages from the park itself opening. Otherwise not much has changed, they tried painting the City-standard garbage cans, but half the paint has flaked off sadly. It was a cute idea but just...
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    Problematic Park Design - Why Some Parks Don't Work

    Now that it's finally fully open, wouldn't mind seeing your thoughts on Dr Lillian McGregor Park, if possible! So far I find it a nice space to walk through, but not anywhere I'd go to spend any actual amount of time, but not sure if that's just me.
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    Toronto Ontario Line 3 | ?m | ?s

    Oh yeah, totally agree, the original plan was also stupid, and was the root cause of that mess. Ideally they should have planned to relocate the Carlaw trunk sewer from Day 1, and then run the subway up Carlaw without all the complications of the sewer line being present. But nope. Instead we...
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    Toronto Ontario Line 3 | ?m | ?s

    Not for the OL, but for the previous RL plan, the City/TTC moved the tunnel south of Gerrard from Pape to Carlaw because locals on Pape complained during the consultation process. This stupidly meant they now had to build the subway directly below a major sewage artery, (which was already being...
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    Toronto Union Station Revitalization | ?m | ?s | City of Toronto | NORR

    The city is implementing a new complaints process where 311 would act as the single point of contact for all divisions (311 then escalates to the relevant people), but that's still being implemented, so while contacting them might work, it might be a bit longer before that's the best option. But...
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    Toronto Eglinton Line 5 Crosstown West Extension | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx

    Where do you suggest they relocate all the sports fields? A city can't just be endless vertical suburbs, there need to be spaces for things like sports fields (which are a thing we already are lacking in many parts of Toronto). While we do need more places for affordable housing, there has to be...
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    Hamilton Hamilton Line B LRT | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx

    I would hope so, given the GTA is over twice the size of Metro Vancouver (6.4M vs 2.7M), and the City of Toronto is over 4 times the size of the City of Vancouver (2.9M vs 675K). That said, I do think the level of our current expansion projects are a thing Vancouver could aspire to (East...
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    Hudson's Bay Company

    Oh that explains why the Skybridge was closed last time I was in the Eaton Centre (at about 7:15pm). Also, kind of a shame HBC closing early shuts the entire skybridge over Queen since its a really nice view, especially as the days get longer. (And also for us transit nerds, it has the best...

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