Toronto Park Towns Bayview and Sheppard | 13.41m | 4s | Broccolini | CMV
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sunnyraytoronto
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Shockingly,... a retail store opened on schedule in NorthYork! The MEC opened last Friday, November 25th,.... thus, be warned, the local NorthYork population of gore-tex and nylon wearing folks will now increase dramatically! Now we can sell our cheap rusty Norco mountain bike on kijiji to raise cash to buy MEC water bottle!
The interior of the MEC is complete - I'm a bit surprised some of the wood pieces appear to be cheaper white pine VS a darker honey colour higher quality wood seen at most other MEC stores,... oh, dear, now I'm judging stores by the colour of their wood!
Second floor has lots of natural sunlight coming in from all those roof-top triangular windows,.... notice the vents high up at side wall - in case if it gets too hot inside,...
Anyways, exterior is basically complete, only a few trim and landscaping details needed,... not really a fan of where they put this tree and rock since folks coming from Bessarion TTC Subway Station exit will have to navigate around it,... Interestingly, they have a 4 car parking bay design into boulevard on Sheppard in front of MEC,....
Also have 2 levels of underground parking directly under the MEC store,.... P2 seems to be missing a layer of traction protective coating on the ground which is shown in this image of P1 parking level,.... P1 parking level also has 2 electric car charging stations to charge a total of 4 electric cars.
Oh,.... and there's townhouse condo in the back,.... not done yet,... likely another few months.
The interior of the MEC is complete - I'm a bit surprised some of the wood pieces appear to be cheaper white pine VS a darker honey colour higher quality wood seen at most other MEC stores,... oh, dear, now I'm judging stores by the colour of their wood!
Second floor has lots of natural sunlight coming in from all those roof-top triangular windows,.... notice the vents high up at side wall - in case if it gets too hot inside,...
Anyways, exterior is basically complete, only a few trim and landscaping details needed,... not really a fan of where they put this tree and rock since folks coming from Bessarion TTC Subway Station exit will have to navigate around it,... Interestingly, they have a 4 car parking bay design into boulevard on Sheppard in front of MEC,....
Also have 2 levels of underground parking directly under the MEC store,.... P2 seems to be missing a layer of traction protective coating on the ground which is shown in this image of P1 parking level,.... P1 parking level also has 2 electric car charging stations to charge a total of 4 electric cars.
Oh,.... and there's townhouse condo in the back,.... not done yet,... likely another few months.
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James
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^ Great update. The last time I drove by a month or so ago it clearly wasn't near completion yet. I'm actually pleasantly surprised that not only is the building done, but that M.E.C. is actually open. 
White pine darkens over time… maybe the other stores' wood looks darker just because of their age now?
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downtownordinary
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Did this development add street parking to Sheppard Ave? I wasn't aware that there was street parking anywhere along Sheppard
sunnyraytoronto
Senior Member
It's called a "Lay-By" parking,... it's designed to cut into the (usually grassy) boulevard area without blocking live traffic lanes and without affecting pedestrian sidewalk space,.... enough for about 4 vehicles,.... a few other developments long Sheppard - one just east of Bayview Village has this type of parking system too. This MEC also have 2 levels of underground parking,... so parking shouldn't be much of an issue. And the underground parking is integrated with the townhouse underground parking in the back,.... so technically, in the future if MEC really need more parking,.... it could probably buy some off the townhouse folks or set up a system of daytime VS nighttime parking arrangement,.... right now there' no bike parking spaces and that's likely because the front landscaping isn't done yet.
Sorry,... but not very good images,... some better images of what a "lay-by" parking space looks like can be found here:
https://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto..._hard_bargain_with_busy_bloor_st_traffic.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/city_h...rkville_valet_area_under_city_compromise.html
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sunnyraytoronto
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You're likely correct,....
I did notice the wood outside at the front of the store is darker than the wood inside,..... that could be the weather protection treatment/staining,.... and it could be different wood all together since the outside wood for canopy and inside ceiling beam wood both look like cedar - a richer tan honey colour,.... which of course makes the lighter white pine wood look even cheaper.
The retail MEC project was well executed,.... and I only dropped by to take a few snapshots to give a monthly update,.... I was expecting them to still be working on the interior and worried they won't be done by the end of the year - imagine my surprise when I saw the "Now Open" sign by the front door and customer going in and out of the store! After I picked up my jaw from the ground I was happy to join them.
innsertnamehere
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whats with the exotic cars always in the paralell parking out front? A lambo in SunnyRays photos.. and a Maserati in Eds.
sunnyraytoronto
Senior Member
Apparently, that's just the way Ed and I roll around here,..... I wish!!! Now where's my TTC bus? Judging from where Ed's other photo was taken from,... I'm guessing he's thinking the same thing,...
http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/thread...-riocan-quadrangle.17901/page-26#post-1251771
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Yep. My Maserati's in the shop. Besides I felt like I was a king. I had the Sheppard line all to myself