Don't forget telling the forum how it should be run!

I'm kinda conflicted by that beige/grey stone too, looks bland to me. I'll have to have a wander and see for myself sometime.

A few shots of Forma (and one of it caught in reflection) from earlier this afternoon.

Man, that sucks. Sometimes I really have to wonder about the erosion of civic mindedness in this town.

I How does it create bad urbanism? Yeah, sound stages take up space, certainly - so do the necessary production offices. But those in turn generates lots of jobs, both for the people working in those facilities and all of the suppliers - caterers, film equipment rentals, sets and props rentals...

There are people who want the Portlands to be done over in the same way - build new commercial attractions and lots of shiny new residential. That ignores the venerable industrial base which is still very much operating down there - and the film production facilities too, for that matter, even...

This amounts to a rude imposition on the neighborhood, full stop. I have no objection to the height per se, it's the design that rankles. It's horrific.

We "need" it? It wouldn't be a super tall if it were below 300m.. just sayin'.

That design will never see the light of day, so you needn't worry yourself. Whatever comes along next will, rest assured, be different, with different players and different money.

That's a sweet render, at any rate.

It certainly would make for a nice flagship store.

Yup! I'm all too familiar with that kind of comment. Or the general tenor of it, at least. Though most people have at least a shred of civility and hold their tongue, their body language tends to signal their skepticism and cynicism.

Still very close, compared to several other under-serviced areas in the GTA... hence the plans for all that dense mid-rise. The Ontario Line is a huge draw and let's face it - car traffic is never going to do anything but get more congested.

I beg to differ - It's very close to Riverside and Leslieville.

Can't wait to see what comes next. Getting tired of seeing this largely neglected patch of land.