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Montreal's casino looks great where it is, but I'd hate to see it right on the waterfront itself in downtown Montreal. The same goes for a casino in Toronto. They are usually designed to look like casinos with their ugly lighting and designs and big parking lots that need buses to bring you to the entrance like airport parking.
 
Yes built in near woodbine ...

anyway like I've said a few times OLG is really against a Casino in Toronto proper or the GTA. It would hurt sales in the rest of southern Ontario's casino's (if they build something nice) immensely
 
taal said:
Yes built in near woodbine ...

anyway like I've said a few times OLG is really against a Casino in Toronto proper or the GTA. It would hurt sales in the rest of southern Ontario's casino's (if they build something nice) immensely
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I thought this thread was about bringing people to the waterfront.
Regarding hurting sales in southern Ontario if it was the other way around they wouldnt give a shit.
Think about it
The OLG is against a casino in Toronto
The LCBO is against selling beer in Toronto corner stores
The CFL is against an NFL team in Toronto
The reality is that most Toronto citizens would welcome any of the above with open arms.
 
Oh I completely agree with you ;)

But as I've said I really wouldn't want to see a Casino on the waterfront no matter how marvelous it was.

Regarding, the very fine restaurants typically attached (per the example you gave in Ottawa) give me a break ... we have many fine restaurants located all over Toronto I doubt this would attract anything close to that.
 
Okay, enough tangential speculation about all of this, let's get back on topic. When there is some new solid information about Canada Square, or some pertinent discussion in its regard, great, post-away!

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interchange42 said:
Okay, enough tangential speculation about all of this, let's get back on topic. When there is some new solid information about Canada Square, or some pertinent discussion in its regard, great, post-away! 42
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From Waterfront August Newsletter!

August 2009 Newsletter

Canada Square Project Begins


Waterfront Toronto and Harbourfront Centre have secured funding for the overall design of the Canada Square Project, a mixed-use cultural village with two urban parks on a 1.4 hectare site at York Quay within Harbourfront Centre. The current construction budget includes funding for the development of one of the parks, currently envisioned as a waterfront plaza, and the construction of an underground parking garage on the site.

Long envisioned by Harbourfront Centre, the current Canada Square Project was first outlined during Waterfront Toronto’s 2006 Central Waterfront Design Competition. The winning design from leading urban design and landscape architects West 8 + DTAH proposed a vibrant, mixed-use cultural village and urban parks to replace the parking lot that currently sits on the prime, waterfront site. Since that time, Waterfront Toronto and Harbourfront Centre have been working to secure the funding required to build out the p roject.

Over the next few weeks, Waterfront Toronto and Harbourfront Centre will put together a stakeholder advisory committee to provide input and guidance to the project team. This committee will be made up of local members of the community as well as representatives from interested and affected stakeholders and organizations. Using feedback from the first stakeholder meeting, Waterfront Toronto will issue a Request for Proposal this fall to formally select a design team to lead the Canada Square Project going forward.

Regular stakeholder meetings and public meetings are an important part of Waterfront Toronto’s commitment to meaningful public consultation and will be an integral part of the Canada Square Project. It is anticipated that the first public meeting will be held this fall.

For more information or to be added to the project e-mail list please contact Andrea Kelemen at info@waterfrontoronto.ca.
 
Very good news. Of course, we are probably talking two years before any shovel is put in the ground.

But this is very much a huge missing piece that will do much to complete this area of the waterfront.
 
How did I miss seeing those initial renders. They are taking a medium sized parking lot and putting small buildings on it and leaving a very small square? The people who run Harbourfront Centre don't seem to understand the meaning of the word "cluttered". They keep adding things to their small area which are obstacles to pedestrian flow, which look tacky, and the finish is a hodge-podge mish-mash of everything.

Milk-box fountain? Sure. Rotunda? OK. Big bulky displays to show pictures mounted on the walkway impeding movement and views? Sign them up. Harbourfront Centre wants all your tacky ideas. They wont be satisfied until every piece of space has something on it and people get lost at Harbourfront Centre for days.
 
Those renders are NOT of the final project - nor is &Co isn't the architect:

Using feedback from the first stakeholder meeting, Waterfront Toronto will issue a Request for Proposal this fall to formally select a design team to lead the Canada Square Project going forward.
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AoD
 
You expect people to read and understand all the way to the third paragraph of such a dense and massive text before leaping to and publishing a damning conclusion?
 
Underground, as per the first paragraph in the newsletter...

The current construction budget includes funding for the development of one of the parks, currently envisioned as a waterfront plaza, and the construction of an underground parking garage on the site.

;)
 
I cannot find the pdf which shows the renderings, can someone please post the link or images?

Also, I think we need to have branding everywhere and not just a little Canadiana, but it should just be plastered on everything. The sketch-up model is along the lines of what I was thinking of. Works wonders for me and no one can complain about it being un-canadian. Perfect. Just perfect. Love it. Oh my yes!

p5
 
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