looking at it in a bit more detail now - some of the property takes for it are a bit more extensive than I expected.
Exhibition takes a good number of warehouses along the south side of Liberty Village, which we already knew, so no surprise there.
Property takes through the core are pretty minimal other than occupying about half of Moss Park to build Sherbourne Station.
We all know they are taking the area bounded by King, Parliament, Mill, and Berkeley for Corktown Station, so again, no surprise.
Metrolinx will apparently be using the school site in the West Don Lands for staging, which I wasn't aware of.
East of the Don River is where the property takes become more extensive:
- Most of the BMW dealership lot is apparently required. What little is left will be needed for the Broadview extension.
- These buildings along the south side of Eastern Avenue, as well as the large self storage building on the north side of Eastern Avenue, will need to go.
- The biggest surprise to me, Metrolinx is proposing to take this entire industrial building and parking lot along Carlaw - presumably for staging as it isn't directly on the alignment. Also likely to be a nice "tranist oriented community" afterwards.
- The No Frills plaza on Carlaw is unsurprisingly going to be demolished as well.
- This entire row of semis are going to go as well to accommodate the tunnel portal to the north of the No Frills plaza along Pape - this is new to me.
- Going up to Pape and Danforth - the entire block of storefronts between Pape and Eaton Avenue, other than the larger office block right at the corner of Pape and Danforth, will go. This will be a big loss for the Danforth.
- These houses along Eaton Avenue are saying goodbye as well.
- As are all these lots along the south side of Gertrude Place, and this one house on the north side of the street
- Two entire blocks of storefronts will be gone to make way for Cosburn Station - here and here.
- We knew this block of houses would go for the tunnel portal to cross the Don Valley based on some news articles
- Same with basically all these commercial properties in Thorncliffe Park to make way for the maintenance yard
- The eastern half of the south Science Centre parking lot is gone for the Flemingdon Park station
- Finally - the Esso and western portion of the Superstore parking lot is gone for the Eglinton station.
The biggest losses appear to be the block around Pape Station to be honest - I'm surprise we haven't seen media attention about that one.
Overall Metrolinx has done a great job of finding cost effective ways of delivering the line, I have to say, including pulling stations off main streets to reduce traffic impacts and costs related to traffic staging, and even finding a way to have about a kilometre of the line run at grade through the industrial areas of Thorncliffe Park and at Exhibition Station (getting 10% of the line to run at grade without tunnelling or elevating it will make a huge impact on costs!). These moves have created unusually large property requirements but Metrolinx will recoup a lot of those costs after project completion when they can sell a lot of the now excess land back for redevelopment, and will cut construction costs substantially.
It's refreshing to see Toronto returning to it's old ways of more creative, higher impact, lower cost subway building methods which were used for the original Yonge and Bloor-Danforth lines.
Hopefully they can find a home somewhere else relatively central. It's one of the few good climbing gyms you can get to easily without a car.