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Anyone who cares about vibrancy, the pedestrian experience, and urbanism, basically.

It’s the difference between walking in South Core versus Kensington (to offer extreme examples).
 
Why can't a single business create vibrancy over a long street frontage? The built form already creates visual interest. There's no written rule that businesses need to be broken up into small portions. It is also better for the given restaurant to have a large space to work with. They'll have far more seating than they would if that space was broken into several different businesses.
 
arvelomcquaig said:
Wait, is this Basil Box occupying almost the entire length of the retail space? Once again contemporary architecture proves to be incapable of numerous, narrow retail, putting one business where there could be four? I hope it‘s just a matter of those photographs being distorted or something.
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Basil Box is indeed taking the entire unit.
 
Armour said:
Why can't a single business create vibrancy over a long street frontage? The built form already creates visual interest. There's no written rule that businesses need to be broken up into small portions. It is also better for the given restaurant to have a large space to work with. They'll have far more seating than they would if that space was broken into several different businesses.
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Granted, but keep in mind that smaller retail outlets allow for more retailers/outlets, and also for small, independent business, since each outlet would cost less to rent given its smaller size. Bigger units are more expensive, so they attract bigger businesses that can afford it. That can, and often does, bring with it homogeneity.
 
Grass is still a work in progress

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Maybe that medium isn't as good as they hoped.

Plants tend to spend their first year establishing themselves. If they're not dead yet, they should have rapid growth next year.

Too bad there are no trees along the Yonge side. It's still a little bare.
 
At this time of the year they will get filthy in no time. All the more reason to not use cement in our climate; or at least use a darker tone that disguises dirt and grime better.
 
Ryan_T said:
Maybe they should throw a mural on it...with some durable paint.


..Something that has a perspective 3D effect as you walk up Yonge St.
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There's no paint durable enough to hold up in a pristine/non-scuffed state with thousands of footsteps on it every day.
 
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