Pusateri’s Little Italy location apparently no longer opening, and the Bayview village store unexpectedly closed this week

Sam Mizrahi replaced as construction manager of troubled condo project The One Sam is out

Found I think the first rendering from here

The cost structure for finishing the last X amount of floors on the building versus putting shovels in the ground on a new development isn’t comparable, considering the up-front costs that have been paid, foundation already built, materials ordered, etc. We’re not dealing with r/wallstreetbets...

Might as well just reallocate the Eglinton East funds to the waterfront LRT, would be a better use of everyone’s time and money at this point

Wonder what are the odds they return to 88 Queens Quay as well

The outside could use a power wash

Not sure if I missed some news at some point, but is there any update on the old Honest Ed’s sign? Haven’t seen anything on it in some time, beyond the initial plan of restoring and installing it at the Mirvish theatre.

Does anyone have an idea if there’s been any movement at all on the tenant front here, or are we most likely to see this vacant for the next X amount of years

If we’re going for unlikely ideas, I think it’d be cool to see a Costco in that spot

Collecting data is one thing, making good use of it is another. Depending on the forces at play, you can shift and manipulate data to construe or support any particular narrative. I wouldn’t assume that they’re making particularly good use of it.

How’s it compare to the QQW location?

Not to revive a thread for nothing but I found the shoutout to Urban Toronto amusing

I believe there are quite a few urban Costcos around the world, including in NYC and Japan. I think actually if they opened one downtown in Toronto, it’d be heavily trafficked, considering that at least anecdotally, one of the primary reasons people eschew Costco memberships downtown is due to a...

You’re right, visible increases in services can be a very powerful political tool. Sadly I feel that services tend to be very cyclical in popularity, especially in a municipal setting, where the idea of cutting waste (not to say that our municipal government is allocating resources particularly...