So far, so good. Bloor/Spadina areaish
Good area to set down.
Hope you mean the south side of Bloor or else you're midtown. ;)
So I came back from Korea for the holidays and went to Dundas Square. Is it just me or are there a LOT more homeless there now? I swear it wasn't like that 3 months ago when I left.
It has indeed, but it's definitely the weather causing people to go down therePeople will tell you "no it's the same as 15 years ago." but that is simply not true.
Areas has gotten more shittier in the past 10 years or so.
Iono about Ken, he's a CEO isn't he? Ryu's a poor ass hobo tho. He'd do it for a sandwich.
Hey all, I'm coming to Toronto for 2 days this coming weekend. What are the musts for someone who's never been before?
It was never meant to be08. PEST CONTROL: Fail to protect against breeding of pests - Sec. 13(1)
That's lovely.
Oh hi there. Did you miss us?
what did we do to him that he'd sic this on us?Tomorrow will be Kuro's revenge on us all with the temperature going to negative extremes
Can we just drive up to his place and leave him a truckload of snow?
Can we just drive up to his place and leave him a truckload of snow?
The biggest project of Frank Gehry's career is moving ahead in his hometown of Toronto—and reaching new heights for the architect and for the city.
Known as Mirvish + Gehry, the mixed-use complex reached a milestone in January when developers submitted a final version of the scheme for city approval. It features a pair of irregularly shaped towers that dance their way up to 1,079 and 990 feet tall.
The project was launched in 2012 by David Mirvish, a theater producer and art collector whose father, retailer Ed Mirvish (a longtime friend of Gehry's), began acquiring the downtown property half a century ago. David Mirvish's initial proposal for three towers faced vocal opposition from city planners for its density in this crowded area and because it would have meant demolishing the 2,000-seat Princess of Wales Theatre. After Mirvish reduced the project to two towers and agreed to save the theater, he won city approval in 2014. Mirvish sold the development to Great Gulf and its partners Westdale Properties and Dream corporation in 2017.
If completed, the 1.84 million-square-foot complex would be the largest and the tallest Gehry has built so far, substantially taller than his Spruce Street tower in New York, which is 890 feet high. The two buildings, 91 and 81 stories respectively, will have a dominant place in the skyline—edging out a planned Foster & Partners tower called the One, slated for completion in 2022, and the 1975 First Canada Place office tower by Edward Durell Stone—to become the tallest buildings in Toronto.
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Luxury condos will occupy the bulk of the towers, along with a 209-room hotel in the west tower. The development also includes a theater, studios, and classrooms for OCAD University's (formerly the Ontario College of Art and Design) visual-arts program, and retail space. David Nam, a partner at Gehry Partners who is overseeing the project, compares it to Rockefeller Center in its scale and variety of uses.
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91 stories isn't the big problem. The last thing the city needs is more luxury condos that will be inaccessible to most of the people who actually want to live in the city. The price tag on those condos will be.NINETY-ONE STORIES?
Bother that nonsense.
The condos will be infested with AirBnBs, and I'm going to bet the elevators will be out of service 6 months out of every year.
I was exaggerating on the 6 months, sorry. I've read stories about a certain condo complex that has both the AirBNB problem and a problem with the elevators, and my brain immediately linked this story to it. Not to mention it can take forever to get up to a tall building if even one of the elevators is out of order, and nobody needs to live on the 91st story.Why would be the elevators out every 6 months? Is that how bad the Airbnb's customers?
Seriously. Luxury condos are like shopping malls in the 50s.91 stories isn't the big problem. The last thing the city needs is more luxury condos that will be inaccessible to most of the people who actually want to live in the city. The price tag on those condos will be.
Only the super rich deserve to live downtown near the banks and across the street from Roy Thomson Hall mirite?Cool. More unaffordable condos that will undoubtedly be filled with AirBnb.
Instead of you know, apartment buildings so people who live in the city can have a place to live that is not ridiculously priced.