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As an appraiser I feel a lot of people clearly don't understand property rights in Canada. Also, people clearly don't understand fair market value, and fee simple ownership. It would take some time to break it all down, but I do feel we can be both sympathetic to those owners having their...

Fair point, I guess the rollout is the bigger issue. If we are going to use T, let's use it on everything so it becomes the logo for all transit stations in Toronto, subway, tram, bus, etc. For Boston, the transit is known as the Boston T, which is like the Toronto (T)TC. Really my OCD is...

Likewise, and not sure why we need to copy Boston. Its transit is abysmal currently.

Are there plans to paint the concrete pillars? Bc they look awfully unfinished in their natural state.

From about two weeks ago.

I agree. This is Emery Village, not Mercer Street. I've been by it many times, it looks "fine" and serves its purpose.

Is First Cap JVing with someone on this one? I always thought they basically just did the retail focus, with a res-focused developer selling the units.

Merci beaucoup, monsieur @kotsy!

Entirely agree. The zoning is mostly from ‘86 anyway, isn’t it? It would be nice to have updated zoning in at least some of the growth centre areas of the city, instead of falling back to the official plan for everything and ZBLA’s. It would also provide certainty to all parties. It’s truly a...

I too tend to cheer for the German team. Unless the Swiss team is still in there, in which case I know my place.

I’m just a mutt unfortunately. My wife is Swiss though from the north near the border with the Black Forest region. :-)

That last photo with the "ribs"...schmeckt gut!

It's not just the city, its all levels of government. I say that as someone in government. It's certainly partly bureaucratic red tape and wasted time on meetings about meetings, but after being at various companies for a while on the public side, there seems to be a real lack of qualified...

They did pay 300 million for the land, in a "distressed" sale, but which was actually quite market-based when you look at the metrics.

What's going on with that blue wrapped spiky building across the street? It's so overbuilt and teeny, super strange looking. I guess it borders on neighbourhoods OPD.

It's rude, isn't it. I live on the east side too, in the direction that the brown 'middle finger' is pointing. It's weird to wish it were at least all grey, bc if brown is the next 'Toronto colour phase', I'm out.

I can think of two reasons why this might be so slow, though have no insider info. One, high interest rates mean construction loans for future phases of construction might be desirably delayed. Two, they (dev) is hoping they will have to give back funds held by unit holders, so they can resell...

Maybe the road has a required completion date as agreed with the city?

Point taken and agreed with, though this building does have quite the price point if I recall.