[robmausser]

I didn't read it that way.....I just got the sense that he knows his customer base and he does not expect that they will change the way they get to his establishment.

Yeah, but he's wrong, thats the best part, and he is complaining about something that will inevitably give him and others tons of business.

Some people can be complete idiots and still manage to succeed in this world, thats how good we have it here.

 

[Uncle Teddy]

Last stage of tunnelling to Allen as the TBM passes Dufferin!

 

[TOareaFan]

Not to beat a dead horse, but the BD extension to Scarborough hasn't been built yet. It hasn't even been designed. If someone gives the TTC the go ahead to fast-track the EA right after the fall election they might have it built in ten or fifteen years. However I suspect the TTC will give priority to the Downtown Relief line so the BD extension is twenty or twenty-five years out realistically (2040-2045). Seeing that the Crosstown would have provided a connection by 2020 "switching to subway" is essentially the same as cancelling the project (notwithstanding the fact they are collecting our tax money to build it).

So, if I understand what you are saying......a project that has been approved with identified funding will not happen for up to 30 years because it is usurped by a project that is being proposed, debated, has mixed support, no identified funding and no definitive route?

 

[TOareaFan]

Yeah, but he's wrong, thats the best part, and he is complaining about something that will inevitably give him and others tons of business.

Some people can be complete idiots and still manage to succeed in this world, thats how good we have it here.

I did not even get the impression he was complaining....sounded to me like he was saying "yep, there is construction, but we are carrying on business as usual and we don't expect the new transit will have any impact on our business"....and that was in answer to a reporter's query....its not like the guy sought out the paper/reporter to raise a stink.....but, I guess, we see articles/comments through our own eyes.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Tend to agree with that read - I don't think he is complaining, though I do think he is a bit short-sighted and didn't see transit bringing in potential customers who might otherwise not be there. Though of course it's not exactly unlikely that he will have to move due to redevelopment pressures - but that's a constant in a growing city.

AoD

 

[TheTigerMaster]

There was a nice article recently from the National Post talking about the many condo developments that are coming on Eglinton, thanks to the crosstown.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/0...-mass-transit-sparks-gold-rush-of-developers/

I'm incredibly excited about these developments. I view them as one of the first steps towards the urbanization of our suburbs. I especially look forward to see what developers have planned for Eglinton Avenue East in Scarborough. It's about time we bulldozed the strip malls and business parks and replace them with midrise mixes used commercial and residential developments.

 

[ehlow]

I'm incredibly excited about these developments. I view them as one of the first steps towards the urbanization of our suburbs. I especially look forward to see what developers have planned for Eglinton Avenue East in Scarborough. It's about time we bulldozed the strip malls and business parks and replace them with midrise mixes used commercial and residential developments.

Leaside east of Laird, south of Eglinton is also a place where major change could happen.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

Eglinton and Don Mills as well.

Though it looks like we are settling for your standard condo high rises on the Celestica site. As much of an improvement it is over the dead-space the site currently is, I wish for more.

 

[sixrings]

Dufferin and eglinton behind the shoppers and dollarama parking lot. Behind the strip club. Rip down the circle healing church. The rexhall and the mistsubishi dealership.

 

[dowlingm]

Leaside east of Laird, south of Eglinton is also a place where major change could happen.

Leaside west of Laird will have plenty to say about that!

 

[TheTigerMaster]

Eglinton and Don Mills as well.

Though it looks like we are settling for your standard condo high rises on the Celestica site. As much of an improvement it is over the dead-space the site currently is, I wish for more.

The proposal looks to be 3/4 mixed residential and commercial with the remaining land being commercial only. Sounds like a good thing to me. I like these mixed use developments.

 

[TheTigerMaster]

Dufferin and eglinton behind the shoppers and dollarama parking lot. Behind the strip club. Rip down the circle healing church. The rexhall and the mistsubishi dealership.

I would suggest ripping down th dealership at Leslie, but that would kill half the station's ridership

Leaside west of Laird will have plenty to say about that!

Why?

 

[Jaye101]

Yeah, but he's wrong, thats the best part, and he is complaining about something that will inevitably give him and others tons of business.

Some people can be complete idiots and still manage to succeed in this world, thats how good we have it here.

Have you ever noticed that most businesses close earlier in the city than the suburbs?

 

[ehlow]

Leaside west of Laird will have plenty to say about that!

I would suggest ripping down th dealership at Leslie, but that would kill half the station's ridership


Why?

Nooo.. that's my dealership . And yes, I do take transit from Leslie when my car is in service for a long time. There's an abandoned hotel tower there too.

Re: opposition/nimbyism: There is always opposition to development, but it happens anyways.

Check out this article from 2011:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/1...er-condo-clash-brewing-at-yonge-and-eglinton/

“I don’t intend to allow developers to get their way,” says Josh Matlow, the loquacious, feisty rookie councillor for Ward 22, St. Paul’s, nursing a mocha at Starbucks, just east of the corner on Tuesday. “This will not end up being taller than Minto. If the developers insist on going as far as they have proposed, they are going to have a fight on their hands.”

3 years later: it's under construction and taller than Minto.

Eglinton Connects specifically calls for redevelopment of many areas where the LRT is, so from a city planning perspective, there's no doubt development will happen. Any developer can point to the LRT and Eglinton Connects.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

The proposal looks to be 3/4 mixed residential and commercial with the remaining land being commercial only. Sounds like a good thing to me. I like these mixed use developments.

If this was Vaughan or Markham I'd applaud it too.

For something more in the city, I would prefer something that didn't have so much dead space. I don't know, perhaps it is just the European in me speaking out, I should just face it that we will never build livable cities in North America. Just more and more of the same appeasement to the car, even in an area that will likely be the future interchange station of two transit lines.