[PWM]

Here is a zoom-in from the Canary District webcam (view 3).

What you can't see from this image is that they have started demolishing the north side of the giant pre-cast warehouse in the foreground.
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Thank you!!

 

[skycandy]

Some demolition photos. Two buildings biting the dust....

Good bye ugly Tippet-Richardson storage bunker...

 

[LUVIT!]

Aww I kinda liked the old brick warehouse

 

[Lenser]

Me too. But that hulking grey storage barn? Buh-bye.

 

[skycandy]

The red brick building was fine (not sure what it was...perhaps it was a Tippet-Richardson building)). That grey concrete monolith was a Tippet-Richardson storage facility: good riddance!.

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

"The red brick building was fine (not sure what it was...perhaps . . . "

http://torontorha.blogspot.ca/2009/07/sunday-july-12th.html


Regards,
J T

 

[Lenser]

"The red brick building was fine (not sure what it was...perhaps . . . "

http://torontorha.blogspot.ca/2009/07/sunday-july-12th.html


Regards,
J T

Cool link, thanks for that.

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

You ain't seen nothin' yet!

http://www.coachbuilt.com/
Also, check Smith Brothers, Parliament & Adelaide.


Regards,
J T

 

[44 North]

Aww I kinda liked the old brick warehouse

Agreed. That's a nice Edwardian warehouse building, similar to the stretch along Davies a block north. At least we could've replaced the bricks and protected its facade. Did anyone put up a fight to keep it?

 

[J T CUNNINGHAM]

Actually, the original building was altered many years after the fire and had numerous feet chopped-off the west end;
the windows and cornice being changed, as well as the decorative brickwork immediately below the latter.
BTW, the railway Right of Way began by crossing Eastern Avenue, into the steel company's, United Drug Company's and the lumber company's property; it servicing all of those named and maybe too, The Coca-Cola Company.

Regards,
J T

 

[Tuscani01]

Actually, the original building was altered many years after the fire and had numerous feet chopped-off the west end;

Regards,
J T

That makes the story a little more sad. It survived fire, yet is being torn down anyway.

 

[skycandy]

All gone, bubbye, red brick building. Work seems to be accelerating on the T-R cement bunker.

 

[slicecom]

Apparently there's going to be a massive autoplex with 7 dealerships and 80 service bays as part of this project?? http://www.torontosun.com/2016/03/13/mega-auto-mall-drives-controversy-in-east-end

 

[innsertnamehere]

Good god i've managed to avoid Sue ann levy articles for a couple years.. she is as bad as I remembered. Pointless rabble on a subject she sorely misunderstands and completely misrepresents.

 

[achender]

Apparently there's going to be a massive autoplex with 7 dealerships and 80 service bays as part of this project?? http://www.torontosun.com/2016/03/13/mega-auto-mall-drives-controversy-in-east-end

Yup. Looks like 13,741 Square metres of above ground dealership show rooms and 24,187 square metres of underground repair shops and inventory storage.

Here is a picture of the autoplex building from the first page of the architectural drawings submitted to the city, posted on the projects City Planning development application portal.