It doesn't really indicate anything other than the seller (Zinc) hired an architect with whom it had worked previously to prepare basic elevations and plans to support an upzoning that the seller felt was required to extract maximum value for the site given the new PMTSA framework and recent...

To boot — this somewhat odd exchange has reminded me that I took a leasing tour of the market units in May of last year. Pics of those units below. I toured 5 or 6 different units, both with and without exposed ceilings. Finishes look to be broadly the same as in the affordable units...

I would also add to this that the City has demonstrated less than no interest in regulating unit layouts. I have tried on numerous occasions to get Staff to care about unit layouts as a way to understand some of our “asks” related to the form of the building (sculpting, setbacks, stepbacks...

I dunno, looks both pretty good to me and also more or less identical to some of the market units I've toured there.

The public part of the sidewalk has been functionally complete for months now, but they won’t finish the pavement between the public ROW and the front doors. Do they not have Letters of Credit they want released?

I don't think the City is doing anyone any favours with how they're handling the question of changes that fall somewhere between what the Committee has typically dealt with and a full new re-zoning (though I acknowledge that certain councillors have put Planning Staff in a bind with how they've...

Retail in buildings of this scale in locations like this are almost always a drag on the pro forma, and at this scale, every unit matters. Can't do everything on every site.

This one was done with relatively little

Though I am sympathetic to the "we should do more retrofits because of the embodied carbon implications" argument, this seems to me to be a pretty obvious instance where a teardown and rebuild would make more sense. If it's currently envisioned as a 3-year project, you basically have to assume...

It moved about four blocks west!

We're calling this "midtown" now?