AlbertC
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NW corner of Pape & Cosburn, and replaces a former 2 storey building where Crow Cleaners used to be.
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1030 Pape Ave (@ Cosburn, 3s, ?)
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AlbertC
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Oct 25, 2020
rdaner
Senior Member
Photo taken 29 March.
Lenser
Senior Member
Pretty drably utilitarian. Not exactly bound to win any awards.
ben.thebean1
Active Member
Can we get a mural on this thing?
billonlogan
Active Member
From Metrolinx website. Cosburn Station on OL will occupy this corner.
That's so great that there's no building planned above where people could live. Or, and hear me out, it's not.
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GenerationLee
Senior Member
That is great. I love seeing Metrolinx adaptively reuse older buildings where new station entrances will be and retain a mixed-use environment for these buildings. Just like they did with most of the Eglinton Crosstown stations.
Oh right, that was a dream.
In all seriousness, I'm sad to see Metrolinx continue to build stand slone entrance buildings for subways. As a forner resident of Pape Village, I'm not looking forward to seeing this place gentrify, even if a subway should have and should be built underneath Pape. Theres some great bones to this community, even with it's challenges.
ben.thebean1
Active Member
Aren't these stations designed so that a building can still be built on top at a later date? I could've sworn that was a thing
AlbertC
Superstar
If I had things my way, there would be a 15 to 25 storey building above the future transit station at minimum.
innsertnamehere
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I fully expect you will get that and likely more.
the province is doing transit-oriented communities at most, if not all OL stations. they just haven't released public plans for the northern stations yet. We got Gerrard Station's design a few months ago and we got 40+ storeys there.
the rendering above is likely similar to other renderings we have seen for other stations on the OL which have since received updated renderings with large buildings plopped on top of the station entrances.
AlbertC
Superstar
It'll be nice to unleash some greater density in Pape Village!
jv99jv
New Member
So was the goal of this building to simply prop up the value of the site before being swallowed up for the Ontario Line project?