Toronto Pan Am Village in the West Don Lands | ?m | ?s | DundeeKilmer | KPMB

[Razz]

Taken April 3, 2013:

And this terrific shot from above, taken April 4, 2013, courtesy of Michelle Cain (DundeeKilmer):

 

[DSC]

The new tree pits along the west side of Cherry Street look good (and numerous) - are they intending to plant trees there and in those on the section of Mill east of Cherry THIS spring so they can get a good start before the PAG?

 

[FNTS]

I hope! And I also hope they're cherry trees.

 

[TOCondoGarden]

WT's Tree Planting Strategy from a few years ago, shows Cherry Street lined with Red Oak and 'Autumn Blaze' Red Maple with Front St planted with Red Maples, as per attached:

Image courtesy of Waterfronto Toronto

Hope that helps!

 

[FNTS]

Haha, yeah, red oak is good too. I just thought it would be fun to have cherry trees on Cherry Street, but they know what they're doing.

 

[TOCondoGarden]

For sure. At least ONE Cherry tree at Cherry and Front would have looked really cool!

 

[Torontovibe]

They should have had a gateway of Cherry Frees, where you enter the neighbourhood. Cherry trees look so nice when they're in bloom. It just seems like we keep using the same type trees all over the city and I would much prefer that different neighbourhoods have trees that look very different. We need more variety in trees and shrubs. How come we never see shrubs or bushes planted around the city? Those barren planters on Wellesley could use some shrubs to cover all that exposed dirt. Those monster planters have never been planted very well. They always show more dirt then plants.

The best new trees I've seen in this city is the Weeping Willow trees planted at Sugar Beach. Those trees are doing so well and look beautiful at summer and they keep their leaves, so much longer then the others. They create a great visual impact, when you enter the park.

 

[TOCondoGarden]

The Willows at Canada's Sugar Beach ARE amazing, as are the Maples. WT uses advanced technologies and silva cells for growing the trees in their jurisdiction...which will help to produce beautiful, mature trees in quicker time, rather than stunted trees that will die a few years later.

Don't lose faith here. Expect the West Donlands to look just as amazing because WT is involved with the tree selections and plantings.

p.s. Cherry Trees, while stunning in bloom, are horribly messy on roads when the flowers fall off...a few are fine...but not mass plantings on a busy street. They are best in a park, like High Park (...they are delayed this year, so we are expecting a late-April or early May bloom show in the Park).

 

[Towered]

That self-storage building just has to go.

 

[DSC]

That self-storage building just has to go.

It will not last - once the rest of the area fills up with buildings and people the land will be worth $$$ and using it for a storage warehouse will not be attractive. I give it a decade.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

DSC:

Indeed - besides as an interim use it certainly beats a parking lot (much less a fallow site).

AoD

 

[nfitz]

Cherry Street, looking north from the GO Train this afternoon.

 

[urbandreamer]

Idea: plant cherry trees on Cherry Street.

Reality: Toronto. Common sense doesn't ever prevail.

 

[RiverCity1]

Well Waterfront Toronto is using common sense and picked trees that make sense in the city lol. While Cherry Trees can be pretty in the springtime, Toronto is at the northern most limit for them to survive. And that's a stretch.

 

[urbandreamer]

I'm trying to think of my own self interest here--enough Japanese tourists in High Park in May--spread the love over to the east side lol.