[christiesplits]

 

[rdaner]

Taken 27 February.

 

[flonicky]

I swear, this portion looked exactly the same a year ago:

 

[rdaner]

Taken 20 March. Can’t wait for the trees to go in on Markham St. And a new/rebranded coffee shop.

 

[vatche]

Will they be Cleaning up those 2 buildings in the last pic where the coffee shop,is?

 

[ProjectEnd]

Will they be Cleaning up those 2 buildings in the last pic where the coffee shop,is?

They're holdouts, not owned by Westbank / Peterson. Cleaning / maintenance is entirely dependent on their own owners' interest.

 

[rdaner]

Apparently the park in the centre of this development is opening in a few months so I guess access on Markham will as well.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

Will they be Cleaning up those 2 buildings in the last pic where the coffee shop,is?

FYI, also see...

Holdout (real estate) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Natika33]

Will they be Cleaning up those 2 buildings in the last pic where the coffee shop,is?

I have just fallen in love with these two quaint li'l holdouts. It I could, I would buy them and protect them just the way they are, grime & old paint & all! (Well, except for finding a new tenant for the one)

 

[officedweller]

There really shouldn't be windows on the Mirvish Project building facing over those 2 holdout lots.

 

[T3G]

Apologies if this has been discussed on here somewhere, but is there an ETA on when Markham Street will reopen to the public?

I care little for the new building, but I would be very interested to see the heritage houses that survived, and compare against the photos I took in this place in March 2017.

 

[Natika33]

There really shouldn't be windows on the Mirvish Project building facing over those 2 holdout lots.

Why not?

 

[rdaner]

^To allow for future redevelopment.

 

[T3G]

^To allow for future redevelopment.

There are literally tens of thousands of incredibly hideous buildings in this city that we could knock down, is going after these 2 holdout lots really a productive or constructive thought?

Besides, whoever would seek to "redevelop" them would be highly constrained by space, hard to imagine it wouldn't be more financially rewarding to level a strip plaza somewhere out in the burbs.

 

[Natika33]

There are literally tens of thousands of incredibly hideous buildings in this city that we could knock down, is going after these 2 holdout lots really a productive or constructive thought?

Besides, whoever would seek to "redevelop" them would be highly constrained by space, hard to imagine it wouldn't be more financially rewarding to level a strip plaza somewhere out in the burbs.

Yeah, I'm not against big development (obviously, as I'm in this group), but the odd little bits that don't get all sparkled up add a little spice & sense of history.