ADRM
Senior Member
The lobby looks open and there is an A-frame standing outside, so I'm assuming they've started PDIs.
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The lobby looks open and there is an A-frame standing outside, so I'm assuming they've started PDIs.
AlbertC
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Yes this is complete now, I saw residents going in and out
ProjectEnd
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Ish. It's a significantly staggered occupancy. A friend has a penthouse here and his possession date is in July.
Northern Light
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The planters here really look awful.
I would prefer to see trees/landscape more or less at-grade w/the sidewalk; but if you can't do that due to utility conflicts, fine, but let's not do poured concrete please. This is where you invest in granite, if not solid, then as capping (both tops and sides). Ugh.
So far, the only retail tenants I see are a medical clinic, a dental clinic and a pharmacy.
I would prefer to see trees/landscape more or less at-grade w/the sidewalk; but if you can't do that due to utility conflicts, fine, but let's not do poured concrete please. This is where you invest in granite, if not solid, then as capping (both tops and sides). Ugh.
So far, the only retail tenants I see are a medical clinic, a dental clinic and a pharmacy.
Toronto1834
Active Member
Did they seriously create a brand new mid-block driveway on Dupont Street when they could have just had a driveway out to Shaw Street? Dupont is enough of a pedestrian hazard zone and traffic mess. This will not help.
CharmAlarm
Active Member
It looks like there is a driveway on Shaw St. as well for parking (from the renders at least). Dupont entrance likely serves as a pickup/drop-off driveway but might also be a parking entrance, hard to tell from the pics.
ProjectEnd
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bigcityboy
New Member
Although they're not the most exciting retail tenants, all of those things are needed in the area. Especially the pharmacy. Hopefully it isn't just a small one attached to the medical clinic.
And yeah, the planters look terrible. Already blackened from winter dirt.
Toronto1834
Active Member
Thanks. That is honestly so stupid. Where side street access exists, we should not be creating new pedestrian hazards on major arterials. I can already picture drivers sitting in the middle of the sidewalk waiting for a gap in the traffic.
ProjectEnd
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That is already standard policy for City of Toronto. This would have been a very special permission on a case-by-case basis. The City almost never lets you do new curb cuts on primary streets (and rightly so) if there is a secondary that can accommodate it.
Towered
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And why are the planters so close to the street? Anyone parking there won't be able to open any passenger side doors...
Northern Light
Superstar
Multiple part answer to that:
1) The sidewalks need to have a 2.1M pedestrian clearway (enough space for two people to pass each other with one on a mobility aid.
2) Parking isn't supposed to be next to the sidewalk, that's supposed to be a cycle track......before a certain premier passed a law against that, it was due to happen last year.
There still would have been parking, but only on one side.
max
Active Member
It probably isn't a new access, cars could enter the gas station and Sobeys parking from Dupont.