RiverCity1
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Just a reminder about the public meeting held tomorrow on the Lower Yonge Precinct planning. Details above and at Waterfront Toronto's website.
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jiec
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Also notice the flat tops on the Ice towers.
AlvinofDiaspar
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Looking at the floor plans (and they are VERY interesting to look at), there are 6 really small movie theatres on the south block at level 2 that I can't quite figure out. And it's quite nice to see below ground PATH south of the tracks being the plan in this proposal:
http://www.toronto.ca/planning/loweryongeprecinct/pdf/1-7_yonge_path.pdf
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http://www.toronto.ca/planning/loweryongeprecinct/pdf/1-7_yonge_path.pdf
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Lansdude
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Nice rendering, gives a great sense of this area could pretty much become an extension of downtown. Wish they could have done another version with 55 and 65 Harbour Square and Westin Harbour Castle razed with a park in their places.
innsertnamehere
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my one major concern is that they seem to have no interest with reconnecting harbor street with lakeshore east again. it just sort of... ends.
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MafaldaBoy
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Another skyline visualization, with appearances from Mirvish, 156 & 151 Front and the Entertainment District, among others (no Oxford though):
That would take place where the Loblaws parking lot is now. Since the Loblaws lands are not in play at the moment, there's nothing speculated for that site in the document. Only properties where redevelopment is actively being explored have possible new buildings pictured on them.
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Jaye101
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So we're creating a jog in Lake Shore? I'm not sure if I understand this Harbor Street extension. Harbor Street is not really a street, more like a name for a 400m portion of Lake Shore Blvd. I find it odd that we'd extend it and remove the existing connection to Lake Shore, and confusing that the name Harbor St exists for such a small portion of Lake Shore at all. If we wanna create a new street, I'm all for it, but rerouting Eastbound traffic on Lake shore through this new portion doesn't make any sense.. Especially if it's a one way with heavy traffic.
Why not keep the existing connection with Lake Shore and create a new pedestrian friendly street built with stone a la West Don Lands.
Why not keep the existing connection with Lake Shore and create a new pedestrian friendly street built with stone a la West Don Lands.
kris
Senior Member
Thanks for sharing those, there's definitely some new renderings in there. This image showing the massing density structures in the area with development potential of LCBO site is especially striking.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/roxxstarr/8769014403/
dayyyyyum dat density!
mrxbombastic
Active Member
Super fancy! looking good HP
Xray_Crystal_Junkie
Senior Member
From personally looking up at its now full height and the impact it has on the skyline from a distance, I can't believe how dwarfed L tower looks in that render.
Lansdude
Active Member
You mean the heavy traffic from the off-ramp on to Harbour Street? The city is moving that off-ramp back. Too lazy to look at the plans now and I can't remember where the traffic will merge (probably still at Harbour), but it will be before York Street, and there will be a light there. As is the cars come barreling down from the Gardiner like a waterslide and keep speeding through Yonge til they get to Lakeshore. The ramp demolition will change that. Harbour street will be more for local access than the artery it is now with the merging of Harbour and Lakeshore east of Yonge severed and an additional light at York for cars coming off the Gardiner.
Jaye is talking about the eastward extension of Harbour past Yonge.
I'm looking forward to it. I'm not worried that Eastbound traffic will be separated from westbound Lake Shore for longer. I don't see what the big deal is. It may confuse some people at first, but people adapt.
Jaye, the new Harbour extension will merge back into old eastbound Lake Shore somewhere around where Loblaw's parking deck is now.
Lansdude, in regard to the new Gardiner offramp, I don't think they can get going on that soon enough. No idea when it's budgeted yet, but they should be starting to build the new Simcoe ramp as soon as they've got the engineering done as far as I'm concerned. That circular ramp needs to come down to create a usable central park for when WPP III and 10 York are completed. We have a new serious district emerging here, but it won't feel like one until it has that ramp and park reworked.
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I'm looking forward to it. I'm not worried that Eastbound traffic will be separated from westbound Lake Shore for longer. I don't see what the big deal is. It may confuse some people at first, but people adapt.
Jaye, the new Harbour extension will merge back into old eastbound Lake Shore somewhere around where Loblaw's parking deck is now.
Lansdude, in regard to the new Gardiner offramp, I don't think they can get going on that soon enough. No idea when it's budgeted yet, but they should be starting to build the new Simcoe ramp as soon as they've got the engineering done as far as I'm concerned. That circular ramp needs to come down to create a usable central park for when WPP III and 10 York are completed. We have a new serious district emerging here, but it won't feel like one until it has that ramp and park reworked.
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AHK
Senior Member
At last night's Waterfront Toronto public meeting on the South Yonge precinct plan, several of the questions related to plans for the Gardiner ramps, both the off ramp at Simcoe, and the on ramp to eastbound Gardiner ramp at Bay. From what I recall, some of the Section 37 funds being generated in the area are to be used to help fund the off ramp reconstruction - specific timeframe for construction was not identified. Regarding the on ramp at Bay street - the big impact is on pedestrians on the east side of Bay. According to the person who responded, there have been for a while plans for the on ramp to be restricted to use by buses only. The planning for the area is to address the overall pedestrian issues, including those of getting between south of Lakeshore Boulevard and the rest of downtown north of the railway tracks.
SixPoints
Active Member
I found this wallpaper online (a future rendering of the skyline) a few weeks ago before renders of this development were released. I'm wondering how much of an impact this will have on the skyline from this POV. This should fill in the gap quite well.
