300 Richmond West

[Mr.Tang]

I apologize if this has already been started, but there is an incredibly frustrating demolition of the facade of two Victorian fronts at 300 Richmond Street West (approximately across from the Paramount Theatre) to be replaced by an ugly, box frontage. I think it is retail? but honestly it is so bad it is hard to tell. They are actually leaving the third of the three original frontages (Cayo Coco) - which makes it easy to see how disappointing this is. Sorry I don’t have any pictures. Really hard to understand how the city let this happen.

 

[Mies]

yeah I saw that last night. What a disgrace. Particularly as I seem to remember a city council report recommending the rejection of the gansevoort hotel plans citing its failure to blend in with that particular set of row houses as a reason. Unbelieveable.

 

[maestro]

There's a tower planned for the site. The intentions are likely temporary.

P.S. I don't know what you were expecting if you already knew of this already.

 

[allabootmatt]

Does tower=parking lot?

 

[cabeman]

The site mentioned at the start of the thread is to the immediate east of the parking lot/Gansevoort site.

 

[Hank]

What a waste of some beautiful victorians. I hope to god that the pixelboard looks nothing like the one shown in the render.

 

[Automation Gallery]

I cant understand how in Toronto there are some shitty looking 30-35 year old buildings considered heritage properties that we would all like to see gone and meanwhile here we have a couple of 100 year Victorians that are ok to reface, demolish, whatever. INSANE

 

[adma]

Yeah, it's got that really strong whiff of "reasons to hate those club district sleazebags" to it...

 

[khris]

Wow! I can't believe they are destroying those Victorians, only to replace them with that! It's also going to look really stupid with one part of it still up.

 

[urbandreamer]

Probably originally was gonna be a condo here, but with current economy a lowrise makes more sense. Give it 10 years, and I could see 30+ floors here.

 

[interchange42]

The developer must have seen Hakim Optical at Dundas Square and thought 'I can't let someone else hold the title for most idiotic project in the city'. Time for another poll.

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[khris]

That poll makes no sense at all.

 

[catcher_of_cats]

That poll makes no sense at all.

Great poll.

 

[Dan416]

It's a total shame. A sad day.