2888 Bloor Street West: a proposed 2-storey mixed-use building containing a pilates studio on the ground floor and one residential apartment on the second floor, designed by Jardin Design Group for The Remington Group on the northwest corner of Bloor Street West and Prince Edward Drive North in The Kingsway area of Toronto.
1764710421694.png

1764710432833.png
 
Tuscani01 said:
Interesting... never noticed that Royal York doesn't have a PMTSA delineation. That would have likely lead to refusal of this since it wouldn't meet minimum density requirements.
Click to expand...
One really wonders how a neighbourhood surrounding an almost 60 year old subway station mysteriously managed to escape such a designation while the adjacent ones didn't...

Rhetorical question, of course.
 
Is this going to be built with Expo-quality materials where they only expect the building to last one season? …because surely this is not the end goal for this site. Wait a little longer for an MTSA/PMTSA to be enacted here, and then make a serious proposal.

42
 
...I'm not sure I would want to rent a unit in a McMansion. >.<
 
It kind of feels like a golden era for the city is over when self-storage gets proposed at Yonge and Bloor and a ridiculous suburban-style plaza like this one is proposed further west along the Bloor line. It looks like the kind of junk that gets built in Vaughan.
 
junctionist said:
It kind of feels like a golden era for the city is over when self-storage gets proposed at Yonge and Bloor and a ridiculous suburban-style plaza like this one is proposed further west along the Bloor line. It looks like the kind of junk that gets built in Vaughan.
Click to expand...
This seems like it’s a temporary (a decade or two?) structure to be built until they transform it into a condo building. Feels to me that the owner wants to hold off until they can buy the property on that block and build one tall building to maximize profit. This doesn’t scream to me like a long term building
 
dtaleb said:
This seems like it’s a temporary (a decade or two?) structure to be built until they transform it into a condo building. Feels to me that the owner wants to hold off until they can buy the property on that block and build one tall building to maximize profit. This doesn’t scream to me like a long term building
Click to expand...

10-20 years isn’t a short time in people years, even if it’s a very short lifespan for a building. A legitimate fear, though, is that if the sprawl plaza makes decent to good money for the owner, then the owner won’t be in a rush to redevelop it. Then, we could be stuck with it for generations.

That’s what seems to have happened all around the old city of Toronto in the 1950s and 1960s. Developers bought up old industrial sites and other pieces of land, razed the buildings, and replaced them with “temporary” uses like strip plazas, paid parking lots, and suburban-style grocery stores pending redevelopment. The market sagged, and we were stuck with the temporary car-oriented uses for decades. They tend to degrade the attractiveness of an area for walkable higher-density mixed-use redevelopment projects, further delaying progress in this regard.

That’s partly why there was that backlash against the proposed Home Depot on Queens Quay in the 1990s. People wanted a better waterfront. They sensed that the temporary Home Depot would probably not leave for a long time and that it would degrade the quality of any waterfront revitalization efforts.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to post here.

Back
Top