The way this unit/these units may perpetually be in shade- would drive me nuts.

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It really is a unique urban landscape within the city and probably the country. I'm hoping the neighborhood can develop a good mix of retail / restaurants. It has been a struggle to keep some businesses since 2014, but there is a pretty significant population here now and this project will add another 1-2 thousand residents as it leases up.
 
unrealestate said:
It really is a unique urban landscape within the city and probably the country. I'm hoping the neighborhood can develop a good mix of retail / restaurants. It has been a struggle to keep some businesses since 2014, but there is a pretty significant population here now and this project will add another 1-2 thousand residents as it leases up.
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Yeah, and the neighbourhood seems to keep losing them. Aviary Brewery, which I understand was one of the first ever Canary District tenants, recently closed down
 
everydayhim said:
Yeah, and the neighbourhood seems to keep losing them. Aviary Brewery, which I understand was one of the first ever Canary District tenants, recently closed down
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I feel like something you need to consider with Aviary, is the impact the Ford Govt had with small brewers across the province when they put beer in corner stores. Had a friend in that business and he started to the exits as soon as Dougie made the move.
 
everydayhim said:
Yeah, and the neighbourhood seems to keep losing them. Aviary Brewery, which I understand was one of the first ever Canary District tenants, recently closed down
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I work in Canary and can say that the businesses are mostly thriving and there are few vacancies. Aviary is regrettable but they had a very difficult birth and will no doubt be replaced by something soon althought i can see the space being divided into two units.
 
rdaner said:
I work in Canary and can say that the businesses are mostly thriving and there are few vacancies. Aviary is regrettable but they had a very difficult birth and will no doubt be replaced by something soon althought i can see the space being divided into two units.
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I’ve lived here for years now and disagree. The space that used to be BFT has been empty for a year now. The space that used to be Copper Branch has also remained empty for years now. The former SukhoThai space has been vacant for over a year. The Italian restaurant that was where SukhoThai is now lasted maybe a year. Add Aviary and there’s a lot of vacancies that don’t seem to be attracting any new tenants.

The retail has definitely not been doing well.
 
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UrbanAffair said:
Imagine if more of our streets looked like that with dedicated streetcar right of way and perhaps one way traffic for the remaining lanes? Some might say I'm a dreamer. This view could pass for a picturesque European city centre.
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That's what you can do when you have a metropolitan public right of way for streets versus the standard right of way that allows for 4 traffic lanes and relatively small sidewalks on major streets. Those proportions for the public rights of way were chosen when Toronto was essentially a small town.

The problem with urban planning since the 1950s is that a metropolitan public right of way usually means six or eight lanes plus narrow sidewalks in North America. We were lucky to get a pedestrian-oriented right of way here. Kudos to good planning!

I wish we could take streets like Dufferin north of Bloor and south of Eglinton, which are lined with mostly boring and shabby Edwardian houses that no one really wants to own, knock them down, widen the right of way to allow for a dedicated transit lane, one or two through lanes in each direction for private vehicles, bike lanes, lush irrigated street trees and landscaping, and wide sidewalks. Then, for at least two blocks in each direction to the east and west of Dufferin, build midrises and lower high-rises with ground-floor retail.
 
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