New TPA parking lot Danforth Avenue & Playter Blvd (between Broadview, Chester Stns)

[dowlingm]

Because after Shoppers and the LCBO, we needed yet another failure to densify. Is there a nuclear bomb planted under the site which is why it has failed to be developed over the years?
http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2015.GM5.26
http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2015/gm/bgrd/backgroundfile-80962.pdf

(edit - if this is a development rather than a transport item for UT purposes could a mod please move?)

 

[Tulse]

Seriously? Property fronting the heart of Danforth is going to be a frickin' parking lot? Fragedakis is going to hear from me -- hopefully she can do something about this travesty.

 

[Electrify]

On my phone so I haven't clicked the link, but could the subway underneath create difficulty for development?

 

[nfitz]

On my phone so I haven't clicked the link, but could the subway underneath create difficulty for development?

The subway isn't underneath that property. It's underneath Hurndale Avenue, not Danforth. There is 3 other buildings north of this property and south of the subway.

 

[Markster]

From what I read on twitter, that site used to be a gas station, which would explain a general reluctance to develop, given likely soil contamination.

 

[Tulse]

Yes, it used to be a gas station, but leaving a hole like this on the streetscape is inexcusable.