Second City on The Esplanade?

[urbandreamer]

Agreed. Icon is a failure from a neighbourhood perspective. A convenience store, some crappy burrito place nearby, and across the street, a bubble tea place. How boring. Interesting how with all that density, Toronto's condo 'hoods are dead compared to the established, relatively low density areas of town like Dundas St West, Queen West, Bloor West Village, etc.

 

[Edward Skira]

The Peter part works well with the convenience store and the restaurant. Wellington side I agree sucks. One of the few streets downtown without any power/phone lines and they didn't bother to plant a single tree.

 

[adma]

Analogous to those Cityplace = Future St James Town prognoses might be if those ground-floor slated-for-retail spaces ultimately wind up housing psychics, rub'n'tugs, et al...

 

[ProjectEnd]

/\ agreed. Much like the Cityplace myth, this one is just bogus.

 

[Sir Novelty Fashion]

Analogous to those Cityplace = Future St James Town prognoses might be if those ground-floor slated-for-retail spaces ultimately wind up housing psychics, rub'n'tugs, et al...

Still trying to unpack your sentence there, adma. Are you saying that these condo neighborhoods would improve markedly if the dry-cleaners and Quiznos were supplanted by Madame Zaza and other, less corporate, more motley tenants?

If so, I agree wholeheartedly.