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Can't wait for the great bloor st spandral wall![]()
And the obligatory pot shop covering the glass in window film.
Can't wait for the great bloor st spandral wall![]()
...I read that as grass in window film. >.<And the obligatory pot shop covering the glass in window film.
Honestly, I bet Shoppers Drug Mart would do that, given the chance....I read that as grass in window film. >.<
...under medicinal herbs.Honestly, I bet Shoppers Drug Mart would do that, given the chance.
And adding 87 new housing units 400m from a subway station.Other than the art, it's an uninviting, bland wall of glass at street level and it's replacing five storefronts along Bloor (plus one on Dovercourt) with one (or maybe two, if they subdivide that space, but I wouldn't hold my breath).
Low-rise neighbourhoods are protected by Councillors who don't believe that the majority of people want increased densities allowed (and who would therefore vote them out next time). New buildings don't have as much space in them for retail as there are quite a number of other things that mutli-storey buildings typically need at ground level, like a lobby, elevator core, mailroom, moving/garbage servicing area, access to parking levels. You just can't fit the same amount of retail in when you have other functions that need catering to.And adding 87 new housing units 400m from a subway station.
Meanwhile the hundreds of acres of land called Neighbourhoods surrounding it are completely protected from development.
It is the Official Plan, regressive Councillors, and unjust Neighbourhood protectionist policies that are to blame for this loss of fine-grain streetfront retail and architectural variety.
It is really sad and maddening.
New buildings don't have as much space in them for retail as there are quite a number of other things that mutli-storey buildings typically need at ground level
I don't know about that. When a developer assembles land parcels, the people selling bought their houses ages ago when they were cheap. So these owners are usually raking in a fortune. On the other hand, the new condo residents are relative newcomers in the property market and often leveraged to the hilt with their mortgages. Or they're renters which doesn't make them particularly affluent either, most of the time.gentrifying beautiful old houses into modern shoe boxes if you know what