Spending money to accomplish things in the short term that later becomes a waste because there is no funding for the actual long term plan is a chronic problem for the city. It's unfortunate, but our politicians don't want to approve things with large dollar budget numbers, so spending less...

IIRC that is the plan. Every escalator (outside of the ones inside stores like H&M) will be modernised. Not sure but maybe the staircase they added earlier in this renovation program was meant to solve for evacuation capacity during renovations.

It looks great. City Planning will absolutely demand it get replaced with tower-on-podium structures that look infinitely worse.

I just hope this is the only car dealership in the Portlands. If we rebuild this whole part of the city and it has minimal purpose beyond selling cars to rich people? not great!

I highly doubt Ford has looked at a map of how deep the lake is wherever he's proposing this island. Also, this could be a preemptive backup plan for if/when the Therme spa fails. Just build a convention centre instead!

The lift bridge being a mess (due to repairs/maintenance) for years certainly has not helped in terms of anyone wanting to go anywhere near Cherry Beach or Unwin Ave. (I say this as someone who goes down there every weekend in the summer to play sports. It sucks.)

Honestly not surprised. Was in there the other day and it was pretty busy. I can totally see them justifying a bigger store.

Personally I like the idea of the OL servicing the lower part of Dufferin, but I don't think it makes sense to keep it on Dufferin anywhere north of Dupont. Ideally I'd have it move over to Jane and St Clair and run up Jane from there. I feel like because of our subway lines being named for...

I don't think we should use renders as proof of timeline for double tracking/not double tracking. To my understanding, MX treats station projects as separate work packages from trackwork projects (which is why adding a second track isn't part of the station build). So for the new station, they...

Also a resistance to ever doing anything differently because "we've always done it this way"

Maybe the "Shock and Awe" is that it'll be combined with the Therme spa. World's first convention centre to hold every exhibition in a pool!

While I couldn't care less about the car dealership part, as someone who plays sports at Cherry Beach Sports Fields in the summer, I'm kinda curious about the cafe.

Yeah exactly. I feel like a lot of our architecture firms are obsessed with "breaking up the massing" but like, the massing is what it is, and changing materials on half the building just leads to that weird look of buildings being glued together, and doesn't make the building look any smaller...

People voted for 10+ years of austerity, this is what they get as a result. There is a major difference between a government that was nearly driven into bankruptcy by the previous mayor and a building built by major investors including the Quebec provincial pension fund, with a major bank as...

I love the contrast between the beautiful headhouse building and the ugly mess that is the trainshed. Like we're so close to a truly beautiful train station but nope.