Toronto Portland Commons | 71.7m | 15s | Carttera | Sweeny &Co

[drum118]

I want to recreate the vibe from Markham Street by Honest Eds.

Draper street is perfectly positioned to do that.

Since the street is a Heritage Conservation District, you are shit out of Luck.

You have 28 buildings at about $2.5 million each, that $80 million. If you can gut the houses, they will have to be brought up to current code at about another $10 million plus. Then there is the cost of reno and installing the needs for a restaurants on top of the current cost so far.

I sure hope you have deep pockets to do this, since restaurants have a very high failure rate in the first place.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

I wasn't thinking of buying the entire street and converting to restaurants.

More so allowing individual owners or houses to be upgraded should they so desire. Right now, that isn't even a possibility because of the zoning.

 

[Edward Skira]

@WislaHD is right. Two major commercial developments surrounding this quaint residential street? Makes sense for the zoning to be changed to allow commercial. Would be a better fit.

 

[Pineapple Express]

New rendering from Sweeney & Co.

 

[Auraz]

Not feeling this at all! Makes it feel sterile and doesn't even fit with the park across the street.Who wants to be looking at fluorescent lights all winter long? Back to the drawing board!

 

[Automation Gallery]

Not feeling this at all! Makes it feel sterile and doesn't even fit with the park across the street.Who wants to be looking at fluorescent lights all winter long? Back to the drawing board!

Yeah looks busy and institutional, yikes

 

[Edward Skira]

Different. I like it.

 

[concrete_and_light]

I like it too. Feels like an improvement over the last design.

And the warm colour in general on both designs is very welcome.

 

[Yegger]

I like the color scheme but i feel like the ground level lacks a fine-grained and feels relentless as if it were housing a overground parking garage

 

[jje1000]

I like the tiered quality of it, but I think they need to mix up the materiality/colour, and the ground level treatment.

As of now it could basically be a hospital building and no one could tell the difference.

 

[alklay]

I love the use of colour and texture. I would take this over the former design.

 

[condovo]

Better than the previous design. The heritage building feels more integral/integrated. I'd like to see more views.

 

[womble]

This is way too high. It's going to swamp Draper street and the town houses to the west of this proposal. Victoria Park is already suffering from a lack of sun from the surrounding new developments.

 

[Marcanadian]

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[someMidTowner]

This is way too high. It's going to swamp Draper street and the town houses to the west of this proposal. Victoria Park is already suffering from a lack of sun from the surrounding new developments.

Where are you getting that information? The sun/shadow study shows that almost no shadows would be cast on Victoria Square .