Toronto Bohemian Embassy Flats + Lofts | ?m | 19s | Pemberton | P + S / IBI

[nekz]

DRL?

Ahh, Downtown Relief Line.
http://spacing.ca/wire/2008/04/14/the-case-for-a-downtown-relief-line/

Sounds like a good idea, but I guess we'll have to keep on waiting.

 

[MetroMan]

Does anybody know about the building behind Wolfitts Art Supplies and the West Side Lofts sales centre?

Apparently Adam Giambrone has been viciously fighting and appealing the OMB decision with a developer who wants to tear it down. Giambrone's not standing back despite OMB's go ahead to take it down.

It has its own smokestack and looks heritage worthy. However, from Google Maps, it looks like it's already trash: Google Maps

It's from a different developer, but is slated to become a part of Bohemian Embassy's "campus".

 

[Hydrogen]

As soon as this thing's finished, I'm marching in the front door and demanding an audience with the Bohemian Ambassador.

Will he be a Bohemian from Bohemia, or an artist who has chosen an unconventional lifestyle and poverty? Anyone from France might think of him as nothing more than a Gypsy.

Shouldn't phase two be the Moravian Embassy? Everyone will want to Czech it out, then.

 

[urbandreamer]

Will there be a shuttle leaving daily to view the real boho art being produced today? If so, it would be headed for James St North. http://www.jamesstreetnorth.ca/

 

[Sir Novelty Fashion]

Everyone will want to Czech it out, then.

You're fired!

 

[Hydrogen]

Now I'll be forced to be Bohemian - in the French sense.

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

what if you're a republican and you want to get naked against some redwoods; will they have a bohemian club?

 

[Hydrogen]

Good points, but the people moving in probably want the name cache and not the living elements that gave the neighbourhood its reputation. That way, their arrival will have brought the revival of the area. It's a Bohemian-Bourgeoisie development.

 

[mysteryman]

But this is replacing a 1 storey industrial building and a car wash. Even at its artsy-est height this side of the street was dead all the time. Wholescale demolition would be a problem but there is enough existing fabric to remain that should prevent this area from turning into King west of Bathurst.

 

[interchange42]

Doesn't the wholesale demolition on this strip and the creation of what amounts to the ultimate yuppi-fication of an area really fly in the face of the counter-culture that forged the path to make this 'hood hip in the first place? The name alone is just an insult.

Condo names are nearly always idiotic, and often refer to whatever the building will supplant by being built. (In this case Bohemian character.)

Candy Factory lofts I can see but who wants to be in the 'condo crowd' in this 'hood once the hookers and heroine addicts have left?

Huh? Wha? Yeah, there goes the neighbourhood when the hookers and heroine addicts leave.

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[interchange42]

I agree with all of your points.

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[urbandreamer]

Today:

 

[current]

April 30

Looking southeast from Queen West with Woolfitt's art store forming the eastern boundary for the site (Bohemian Embassy plus other condos by the same developer).

Looking south with the King Towns development on the other side of the tracks.

Looking south from the intersection of Queen and Gladstone. Excavation taking place on the very large site surrounding the strip plaza.

Looking southwest from the intersection of Queen and Gladstone.

 

[Hydrogen]

Excavation taking place on the very large site surrounding the strip plaza.

Too bad excavation didn't include the strip plaza.

 

[urbandreamer]

Current, did you go art gallery hopping too? Some interesting stuff along that route, if you saw my art gallery photo spread.