I'm not a fan of the tall skyscraper clusters surrounded by single family homes. I'm good with a few highrises leverage some transit areas, but I'll always prefer low rises and missing middle type housing spread out over more area. I like the density build that Vancouver has along Broadway and area, the Montreal neighborhoods with the rows older apartments, or our inner city neighborhoods like Kensington, Inglewood, et al, including newer like U/D.
 
Albertasaurus said:
Yeah loads of that in the GTA these days. That 84 storey building in Mississauga is just overkill. I'd rather see the really tall stuff in the downtown area where it belongs.
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Mississauga has really weird urban design in general. Everything surrounds a massive mall with a giant surface parking lot. Giant towers that look out of place with streets designed for a suburb and unpleasant to walk on. Single family homes two blocks over. Suburban style office buildings with large surface parking with a surface LRT the only rapid transit being built.
 
Apologies if this has been discussed, only follow this thread sporadically. What do we think happens with the alpha house on the corner of 1st/15th. Another randomly placed social service that, I can attest, has negatively impacted that entire block
 
Mountain Man said:
Pretty sure they have no plans to leave. Too many of their "clients" harassing rich people and tourists may change that, but it would take a few years. Alpha House is an unfortunate necessity, they do good work with very difficult people.
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correct, its just the splintering of social services over a downtown.
 
Tothewest said:
correct, its just the splintering of social services over a downtown.
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I don't see a location in downtown that could turn into our modern day Hamsterdam (The Wire reference). Maybe the old Greyhound terminal? Any consolidation of social services is most likely going to be strongly fought by adjacent property owners, unless the city created some creative compensation program. It also means the city gets to pick the winners and losers, which is ripe for corruption.
 
bye bye

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See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya...

According to Realtor.ca there are 20 units for sale at the moment. Honestly, I think it's a bit overblown. Yeah it sucks to lose a good chunk of your view, but anyone who bought into that side of the building had to know that party wasn't going to last forever with that empty lot. In the long run, this project should help the whole street presence and neighborhood, which will offset the value lost. The reality is that all the activity from Alpha House is a much bigger detriment than any view being lost.
 
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See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya...

According to Realtor.ca there are 20 units for sale at the moment. Honestly, I think it's a bit overblown. Yeah it sucks to lose a good chunk of your view, but anyone who bought into that side of the building had to know that party wasn't going to last forever with that empty lot. In the long run, this project should help the whole street presence and neighborhood, which will offset the value lost. The reality is that all the activity from Alpha House is a much bigger detriment than any view being lost.
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I don't think most of the sales are even related to this development. A few of those buildings in that area have had a really high number of for sale units for a long time. Guardian has 34 currently listed.
 
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