[raadthedeveloper]

Thank god they're keeping the parking deck, so many memories as a kid there...

 

[Edward Skira]

The parking deck is worst thing about the entire area. Turns it back to the street. As anti-urban as it gets around here.

 

[sixrings]

The parking deck is worst thing about the entire area. Turns it back to the street. As anti-urban as it gets around here.

It is the worst part but I’m assuming that the person has wholesome kosher parking structure car memories they need to preserve.

 

[flonicky]

I have great memories of the giant grocery store parking lot that used to be at Yonge & Northtown Way, but I'm still glad it's gone!

Oh, there I go again, getting all misty-eyed over a parking lot.

 

[Strange Advance]

I have great memories of the giant grocery store parking lot that used to be at Yonge & Northtown Way, but I'm still glad it's gone!

Oh, there I go again, getting all misty-eyed over a parking lot.

The Dominion? I used to go there with my mom in the '80s to rent a carpet cleaner. But for several years we bought groceries at the No Frills that was on the west side a couple blocks north (as the store was on an incline, it had ramps to the parking lot). And for several years there was a Future Shop directly north of the No Frills.
Strange how humdrum childhood experiences become fond memories.

 

[flonicky]

Yeah, remember how the Dominion Store seemed to sit so far off in the distance? I went to that No Frills many times! I lived in that area on and off for several years. My experiences weren't during my childhood and they more humma humma than humdrumma.

 

[Strange Advance]

Ah, so a car rocking and steamed windows.

 

[Edward Skira]

But for several years we bought groceries at the No Frills that was on the west side a couple blocks north

And to go even further back before the No Frills there was a Canadian Tire on that site. It moved to Town and Country Mall (now Centrepoint Mall) in the early to mid 1970's. I'm getting old!

 

[Strange Advance]

And to go even further back before the No Frills there was a Canadian Tire on that site. It moved to Town and Country Mall (now Centrepoint Mall) in the early to mid 1970's. I'm getting old!

That's long before the time of my earliest awareness, and I just turned half-a-century. Once in a while, I go to that Centrepoint Canadian Tire, if I'm in the area. It isn't one of the better ones. The one at Leslie-Sheppard is far superior. However, Carlo's No Frills at Centrepoint is excellent. I live just north of 401-Avenue, and I travel all the way up there for groceries.

 

[Paclo]

Application Details

www.toronto.ca

Phase 1 plans resubmitted with the retention of the TTC parking deck and existing bus lane configuration, reducing the scope of development to the southern portion of the Phase 1 lands. Stat changes in table below (~17 affordable units are included)

Updated renderings:

Updated Phase 1 Site Plan:

 

[innsertnamehere]

"lets hire HPA but get them to design an attractive, basic-rental building exactly like BDPQ would"

Huh?

I mean it's not ugly (It is HPA), but, like, why bother with HPA then?

 

[TossYourJacket]

I get that Sheppard isn't the most pedestrian friendly road rn but seriously? Barely any interface with a major street? This is trash. Stuff like this dooms Sheppard to never be a remotely functional street any time in the future.

 

[neuhaus]

A 60% reduction in area and only one tower, down from three, and we get this?
It’s not a bad building, but very vanilla. Considering Fairview Mall doesn’t really have a visual identity, and having this building go up right in front of it on a prominent street, it deserves a more interesting and attractive design.
I hope the other proposed buildings around the mall will be more sympathetic.

 

[denfromoakvillemilton]

If the OL gets up here in 10 years, it will survive. Otherwise, we've got serious retail issues in Toronto.

 

[Northern Light]

LOL............

I told them what to do here (nicely)...........people who listen properly make more money.

This is not an example of that. This i is how to flush money down the toilet because we don't know what we're doing.....