Vaughan Bravo, Encore at Bravo | 148.85m | 45s | Menkes | Turner Fleischer

[alexb]

First docs are in for the lands immediately to the south of Festival Condos. 45, 36, and 31s.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

First docs are in for the lands immediately to the south of Festival Condos. 45, 36, and 31s.

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Renderings from the plans:

 

[WaitingForGodot]

turner fleischer and kirkor are turning Vaughan into an eyesore.

 

[Edward Skira]

There's some demolition happening.

 

[alexb]

There's some demolition happening.

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Demo and then temporary park space?

 

[ProjectEnd]

Interesting. These kinds of outbuildings were part of a late 90s / early 2000s push to turn parking lot, movie theatres, into pseudo-new-urbanist 'lifestyle centres'. They were popping up all across suburban Ontario:

Vaughan:

Whitby:

Oakville:

Mississauga:

 

[innsertnamehere]

I've been the Whitby one quite a few times, they are nothing but complete failures from a commercial retail perspective. Not surprised Quadreal is demoing it. Everyone basically just avoids the restaurant space and goes right to the cinema. The densities are too low as well so the large pedestrian spaces between the restaurants feel empty and actually quite eerie.

 

[ProjectEnd]

Interesting. I used to frequent the Oakville one in high-school (early 2000s) and it was very popular back then.

 

[innsertnamehere]

I've been to the Oakville one once maybe 3 years ago, and it seemed more successful than the Whitby one from that snapshot of experience. Still not anything crazy though.

 

[Northern Light]

Interesting. I used to frequent the Oakville one in high-school (early 2000s) and it was very popular back then.

Interesting.............you're younger than I thought...........LOL

 

[Northern Light]

Important to remember about this, the Cinema here is dead; this is the former AMC; so the remaining retail, meant to serve the cinema-going audience is stranded and without its anchor draw.

 

[ADRM]

It's funny, they're still building these in lots of places in the US. The last two new-ish ones I've been to are in Columbus (hilariously awful but typically pretty busy) and Glendale (a locus of activity and actually not half bad when there is a hockey or football game; completely barren and windswept otherwise).

Easton Town Center, OH

Westgate Entertainment District, AZ

 

[Bjays92]

Interesting.............you're younger than I thought...........LOL

Just keep in mind. 2000's was 20 years ago now

 

[artyboy123]

Taken from DevApp:

" 3 residential towers supported by ground floor related commercial retail uses, dissected by a central mews, with a Private Owned Public Space in the SE corner of the development parcel."


Renderings are taken from the architectural plan not in Wisla's post:

This one is altered:

 

[Bjays92]

Boring but not blue I'll take it I guess *shrug*