Toronto The Brixton | 45.41m | 12s | CentreCourt | Graziani + Corazza

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Taken from Dufferin Street’s 25 metres of separated bike lane (I know we should celebrate the little victories, but....huh?)

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Those off-street lanes are there to connect bike infrastructure on Florence Street (which has a Contra-flow bicycle lane) to Waterloo and Gladstone which connects to the Argyle route. I've biked it before and after and despite appearances it is an improvement.

It was a challenge to execute because they had to take space out of the schoolyard and rebuild that corner for them. Ultimately, the way it was done with other local street changes solved some issues the school was having and it was able to get done.

 

[AlbertC]

June 13, 2020

 

[ADRM]

Popping up into view from Fix Coffee + Bikes (which you should visit if you haven’t because it is excellent).

Booooo.

 

[SOS_Urbanist]

Great pics! liking how this is turning out overall.

 

[ProjectEnd]

Great pics! liking how this is turning out overall.

Seriously??

 

[AlbertC]

July 19, 2020

 

[shotgun2020]

Looks like a bridge is being built to connect two of the towers:

 

[Lyphe]

Great pics! liking how this is turning out overall.

Agreed. I like it.

 

[AlbertC]

It's still a bit more Brentford than Brixton IMO.

 

[JPenthouse]

 

[AlbertC]

Overwhelming amount of corners and surfaces covered in grey spandrel, what a disgraceful lack of aesthetic initiatives by all the parties involved.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

Goodness...the "bricks" in the Brixton couldn't save these building from the inflicted spamdrel blight, even if they where designed to try. /sigh

 

[AlbertC]

Not Brixton related, but it's interesting to see Hullmark pick up 450 Dufferin, which is just north of it. They may just maintain the building in its current form for now, but I wouldn't be surprised to see the site intensified in the future.

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I wonder how long before we see the Riverview Produce property sold for redevelopment. It's a huge triangular lot that looks like it could accommodate quite a bit of density up against the rail corridor.

 

[AlbertC]

I wonder how long before we see the Riverview Produce property sold for redevelopment. It's a huge triangular lot that looks like it could accommodate quite a bit of density up against the rail corridor.

I remember attending a community consultation meeting back in 2012 for the earlier proposal on the Brixton site. The previous developer had approached the owner of Riverview Produce but they wouldn't budge as it was a large profitable operation for them. Anything can happen in the future of course and especially for the right offer. Curious if Hullmark may consider working on a potential assembly of them as well.