Albion_Sky
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I didn't know they were planning a water feature in this building 
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karledice
Senior Member
I didn't know they were planning a water feature in this building
OMG Concord being Concord again
Poor owners, people never learn
rdaner
Senior Member
Taken 8 July.
Undead
Senior Member
They're mostly absentee landlords, they don't give a shit.
thaivic
Senior Member
Sorry to say but all builders have the same pipe issues, its more the fault of the trades then the developers. Great Gulf, Pemberton, Tridel, Concord, Menkes, and all other ones have these unfortunate issues.
Rascacielo
Senior Member
Today. This entrance has been ‘ready’ for about 2 years (maybe more), and yet it’s still blocked off. I heard the turnstile wasn’t ready. Just an example of incompetence, lack of accountability and waste of money we can almost take for granted in Toronto! I don’t know who paid for this - the TTC, Concord or the original developer that went under, but what’s the point of having another entrance to Wellesley subway station when there’s already one ACROSS THE STREET at Totem condos? And it’s a quiet side street too, when 9 times out of 10 you don’t have to wait for traffic to cross. It must have cost at least a couple of million bucks to build a tunnel under Dundonald so that residents of this building wouldn’t have to be outside for like 20 seconds (the time it would take to cross the street). And to add insult to injury, it’s now been left in this state!
Rascacielo
Senior Member
I have an insider’s info on the unopened subway entrance. Apparently the entrance / exit not only leads to the street, but has a direct access to the building. Due to the sketchiness of the area, residents have decided to NEVER open the entrance. So they spent millions building this entrance, including tunneling under Dundonald, and now it’s permanently mothballed. I just hope that not a single cent of taxpayer’s money went into this fiasco.
goodcitywhenfinished
Active Member
That's silly. Are the owners aware their building has direct access to the street as well?
Rascacielo
Senior Member
Of course. That’s why they voted not to open the entrance. To be fair, I have seen people openly smoking crack in the park next to the entrance. I guess they’re worried that these folks would be able to access their building through the subway entrance. But it’s not like unsavoury characters didn’t exist around the area when Crestford (the original developer) proposed (and hopefully financed) the subway access with direct link to the building. As for the inconvenience of not having direct access to the subway, I guess they decided that’s something they could live with since there’s another entrance about 25 m away across the narrow street. But now we’re stuck with the eyesore of an entrance barred with some plywood (see my pic from a few weeks ago).
Tuscani01
Senior Member
Given how these agreements are structured, I don't think the residents have the ability to keep this access closed. It's technically not theirs to decide on. TTC is responsible for the entrance. The only door the building would have control of is the one that leads from the building to that entrance.
Same with the one across the street. While it was built by the developer, the physical space was handed over to the TTC. The building doesn't operate it.
Rascacielo
Senior Member
I also thought the residents or Condo Corp could just block the access to their building without blocking access from the street to the subway station, although it would be kind of pointless given there's an existing access nearby - coming from the street, you wouldn't really save any time using this access vs the one at Totem Condos (and vice versa if you're coming from the station and heading to the condo). Anyway that's what I heard from someone whose husband used to manage the condo building.