Toronto Minto Long Branch | ?m | 4s | Diamond Corp | Guthrie Muscovitch

[waterloowarrior]

Approved by Council...

but appealed to the OMB
https://www.omb.gov.on.ca/ecs/CaseDetail.aspx?n=PL140030

 

[urbandreamer]

5 July 2014: Sales centre is opposite the site.

 

[kram74]

 

[interchange42]

Looks pretty elaborate, must be permanent new retail buffering the townhomes from Lake Shore.

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[wopchop]

Looks pretty elaborate, must be permanent new retail buffering the townhomes from Lake Shore.

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I just logged on to try and answer this very question (the advertising is heavily geared towards the townhomes). I wasn't aware that this development had any retail at all. It is definitely being built to be permanent, and I see that a retail component was always part of the plan. Good to see. Also happy to see that they are trying to fill in the streetwall on Lakeshore in that area.

ETA;

I also never realized that there is a tower here. Has it already gone into sales? The sales centre and website only ever mentioned towns.

 

[salsa]

 

[Jarrek]

I am disappointed that the retail doesn't have another couple of stories up top for offices or apartments.

 

[ProjectEnd]

Indeed. But, you know, effort...

 

[Amare]

I am disappointed that the retail doesn't have another couple of stories up top for offices or apartments.

Office space would have been nice, but there really isnt a need for any apartments on top of the retail component though. The entire strip of lakeshore already has that taken care of.

 

[wopchop]

What is even more disappointing is that the entire wall of glass that you see on the new Beer Store is a spandrel wall, and all the retail will still be focused on the parking lot at the back. There isn't even a street-facing entrance to it.

 

[Towered]

Wow, this type of crud retail is still allowed to be built? Disgusting that developers still get away with such 90's-style insults to urbanity.

 

[salsa]

 

[Towered]

WTF...

 

[interchange42]

From yesterday:

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[Amare]

I'm very thankful that we're getting this type of development here, instead of a Humber Bay style development that would have led to another failed community along the Lake Shore.

Although the townhouses are nothing to be really excited about, i'm glad Minto decided to spare us from Condo galore. The city really needs to start coming up with comprehensive plans for large sites like this in the future, because without it we often end up with patchwork developments that don't knit well together. We'll have wait and see how well this site and the neighboring proposal blend in together when all is said and done.