AlexBozikovic
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This project is really, really, bad.
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250 Front St. E (Greenpark Homes, 12 + 2x 46s, SvN)
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AlbertC
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Yikes, Greenpark meets G+C. Sounds like the gruesome twosome.
bilked
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Core sampling?
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The Ontario line will be passing below this site and the Corktown Station will, supposedly, be on east side of Berkeley Street between King and Front. SEE: https://www.metrolinxengage.com/en/content/ontario-line-neighbourhood-updates-downtown
That may be good but it will clearly mean this development (which has been quite quiet) will not proceed for a while.
1. The station serving Corktown will be located to the east side of Berkeley Street at King Street East, with connections to several streetcar and bus routes nearby. Positioning the station to the east reduces costs and will speed up construction of the station and tunnels. Importantly, it also reduces community impacts by moving construction off the street. This station will provide customers with easy access to the historic Distillery District.
2. This area – currently home to large retail operations and a significant number of surface parking spots – is where the first two Parliament Buildings for Upper Canada were located, from 1797 to 1813 and 1820 to 1824. Archaeological assessments are currently being planned in advance of any potential use for the project. Metrolinx will work with the Ontario Heritage Trust, the City of Toronto, property owners, and community members to ensure any archaeological findings or historical features are properly documented or conserved and, where possible, made accessible for the public to learn more about. The important history of the land goes back much further than the first parliament buildings and Metrolinx is committed to working with Indigenous communities to better understand the important histories and rights of the peoples that have and continue to live in this area.
Work is anticipated to begin after archaeological assessments are completed and once financial close is reached for the Southern Civil, Stations and Tunnel procurement package.
That may be good but it will clearly mean this development (which has been quite quiet) will not proceed for a while.
1. The station serving Corktown will be located to the east side of Berkeley Street at King Street East, with connections to several streetcar and bus routes nearby. Positioning the station to the east reduces costs and will speed up construction of the station and tunnels. Importantly, it also reduces community impacts by moving construction off the street. This station will provide customers with easy access to the historic Distillery District.
2. This area – currently home to large retail operations and a significant number of surface parking spots – is where the first two Parliament Buildings for Upper Canada were located, from 1797 to 1813 and 1820 to 1824. Archaeological assessments are currently being planned in advance of any potential use for the project. Metrolinx will work with the Ontario Heritage Trust, the City of Toronto, property owners, and community members to ensure any archaeological findings or historical features are properly documented or conserved and, where possible, made accessible for the public to learn more about. The important history of the land goes back much further than the first parliament buildings and Metrolinx is committed to working with Indigenous communities to better understand the important histories and rights of the peoples that have and continue to live in this area.
Work is anticipated to begin after archaeological assessments are completed and once financial close is reached for the Southern Civil, Stations and Tunnel procurement package.
AlbertC
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Interesting case. This project currently as is designed by G+C would've been crap anyways, so I'm not bothered. Hopefully when it's all said and done, we can see a transit station that gets fully integrated with a development up top considering the urban context, instead of the usual standalone structures we're seeing along the Eglinton Crosstown.
TossYourJacket
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A couple crosstown station buildings are planned to support development above them (Eglinton-Yonge and Leaside I believe), and while that's nowhere near enough, it does at least give some hope for this site.
someMidTowner
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Forest Hill as well!
ChesterCopperpot
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Corktown – Transit-Oriented Community
Infrastructure Ontario (IO), with the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) is leading the Transit-Oriented Communities Program as it relates to the “New Subway Transit Plan for the GTA,” part of the government’s plan to build new, sustainable transit.
www.infrastructureontario.ca
Midtown Urbanist
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Good to see Infrastructure Ontario step up on transit-oriented development whereas Metrolinx has failed in the past.
Maybe we should transfer Metrolinx's real estate arm to the Infrastructure Ontario's portfolio.
Maybe we should transfer Metrolinx's real estate arm to the Infrastructure Ontario's portfolio.
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Though I am certainly not happy about the Province's take-over of the First Parliament site, it will be good to see the Staples-Porsch site being better developed! Of course, the devil is in the details!!
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reteequa
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Probably longer. I'd guess they will build the station first then have someone develop over top once it's finished.
AlbertC
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FormerTorontonianBackInTO
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Nice to see that this city is going to get a station that's not just some isolated one storey building (like the expansion of the University Line and the Eglinton LRT line)...this goes back to all the wasted land at all those stations along the Bloor-Danforth line.....people at the city, province, and Metrolinx that signed off on these one-storey buildings in the context of the housing crisis (so all the recent stuff) should all be held accountable and lose their jobs (but that's not how bureaucracy works)
