Rascacielo said:
Even if the bunker is (temporarily) used as self-storage, there's still an opportunity to improve the exterior. Why not put eye-catching and revenue-generating digital boards/ ads on all that blank wall?
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As if we aren't forced to look at ads enough every single day. Why not cover literally every imaginable surface with them!

I also don't think the people living on the lower floors of 1 Bloor East/West (or hotel guests in the case of 1 Bloor west) are going to love having bright lights blasted into their units from directly across the street 24/7. (Say what you will about Yonge and Dundas, but it doesn't have residential fronting directly onto it at podium level like Bloor-Yonge does, so the constant ad screens make more sense there).
 
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If they could just find decent tenants for the ground level retail, and add some LED walls to animate the giant bunker on top, that would add life to the area.
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DarwinP said:
If they could just find decent tenants for the ground level retail, and add some LED walls to animate the giant bunker on top, that would add life to the area.
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...it certainly would make it feel less oppressive than what they are proposing here.
 
Would be pretty awesome and likely cheaper to just fill the 300K space with a bunch of ping pong tables, gym equipment, futsal cage, climbing walls ,running track, and various cacophany of sports, call it an indoor sports complex and charge membership fee.
 
TossYourJacket said:
As if we aren't forced to look at ads enough every single day. Why not cover literally every imaginable surface with them!

I also don't think the people living on the lower floors of 1 Bloor East/West (or hotel guests in the case of 1 Bloor west) are going to love having bright lights blasted into their units from directly across the street 24/7. (Say what you will about Yonge and Dundas, but it doesn't have residential fronting directly onto it at podium level like Bloor-Yonge does, so the constant ad screens make more sense there).
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Yeah, it’s not ideal, but it’s better than staring at that concrete bunker for at least the next 15 years. Of course there’s an alternative: Brookfield could hide the bunker behind some innovative cladding, like Selfridge in Birmingham (see pic), but that would be expensive - there’s no way they’re going to do that to beautify a temporary self-storage facility. Even a cladding like the one at the data centre near King & Parliament would probably be too much for them. They probably think Torontonians have lived with it for 50 years, what’s another 15-20?

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If only Miniatur Wunderland wanted to take over the space and open their second location to compete with Little Canada some blocks to the south. Or, if that idea chafes too much, Little Canada itself is going to run out of expansion space in the next few years, so they could start up a Little Rest of the World location to keep those pesky Hamburgers outta town.

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junctionist said:
Why not make it into a mega-club? '90s culture is making a comeback.
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I've seen this a lot on Bluesky.

There are good clubs and bad clubs, but mega clubs almost always fall into the latter category. Putting it at the end of the "the Mink Mile" is inviting this even more. If the goal is to bring more car traffic, entitled brats blowing their credit cards on bottle service and flooding the area with drunkards and stoners from the 905, that's a good way to do it.

There's a reason why the really big clubs always did well out in low-density areas, the negative aspects are more easily mitigated. Sticking it right in the middle of a high-density area is asking for local revolt.

Aside from that, club culture has actually been on the decline here. Same with the UK and Germany.
 
^Nothing could ever held a candle light to the warehouse party scene back in the day. Where politicians and police try to shut it down...you know it was a good thing. Mega clubs try to capitalize on said scene...but where always the soulless version fueled by rum, thuggery and the lash...and I never felt comfortable in those. I guess e-music needed to survive after places to hold it became too much of a liability at the time. But I think things are coming around again, and the confines and rigidity of licensed venues are slowly giving way to more flexible options...

...anyways...what where we talking about again? Oh right...the former HB bunker on Bloor and Yonge converting to self-storage. >.<
 
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