Toronto The Park Retirement Residence | 53.27m | 15s | Verve | Giannone Petricone

ProjectEnd said:
Sure, but Cat Park is Allied and RioCan's contribution to the City. The City has no obligation to match or contribute themselves.
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Didn't Allied and RioCan bail on Cat Park? I thought they are just providing the land and a cheque to the City, and not building out the park themselves, which is a shame. Now the City will have to go through a full procurement process and we might not even get Cat Park if that landscape architect is not selected by the City.
 
Kenojuak said:
Didn't Allied and RioCan bail on Cat Park? I thought they are just providing the land and a cheque to the City, and not building out the park themselves, which is a shame. Now the City will have to go through a full procurement process and we might not even get Cat Park if that landscape architect is not selected by the City.
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They didn't bail on anything. The Well team were always just contributing the land. Agreed that procurement might be an issue.
 
400WellingtonGuy said:
They didn't bail on anything. The Well team were always just contributing the land. Agreed that procurement might be an issue.
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The S. 37 agreement gave the option of either completing the park, which would have gotten us cat park, or writing a cheque and having the City do it. Either way the land is being contributed as required. I do think it is fair to say that going all through zoning and community consultation with cat park, and then paying a fee and leaving this to City procurement, is bailing in some form despite being legally compliant.

Edit: all of this, by the way, is just a response to the comment

Cat Park is Allied and RioCan's contribution to the City.
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Which is not true because allied and RioCan are not contributing cat park. They are contributing land and cash. The City may or may not turn it into car park.
 
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While the responsibility has not yet been entirely nailed down, it is looking like the partnership will be constructing the park.
 
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Guarantee you the city is going to want a revision with their 10% parkland on site as a sliver along the east side instead of cash in lieu.
 
Very trendy! Good to see housing options for seniors in the Downtown, too.

I like it, but I'd change the look of the floor slabs and make them continuously white or another colour.

Quick Photoshop to show what I mean:

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AlbertC said:
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Am I not seeing something correctly? Between the top render and the bottom render, the space at ground level seems to have changed colour.

Overall, not a bad building.....though the blank space at ground level is unappealing.

The bottom render, which gives a sense of two different buildings works for me more.

Where the upper render leaves me feeling that the asymmetry of the east and west portions (heritage and new) is a bit jarring.
 
Northern Light said:
Am I not seeing something correctly? Between the top render and the bottom render, the space at ground level seems to have changed colour.

Overall, not a bad building.....though the blank space at ground level is unappealing.

The bottom render, which gives a sense of two different buildings works for me more.

Where the upper render leaves me feeling that the asymmetry of the east and west portions (heritage and new) is a bit jarring.
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The blank wall is the parking garage entrance.
 
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