Demolition has recommenced:

May well be wrong but this project looks stalled out - very little progress to point to. If so, sad because it is such a prominent corner and a relatively ambitious development.

The old church is now demolished, these pics from the lane side. The

From my completely naive perspective, I have a really hard time seeing how this project works economically. 4-5 years of construction and heritage restoration, what are the margins on a project like this?

I know that the owner of one of the houses immediately to the east of the 3239 proposal was very vocal in their opposition to the application and just finished a significant renovation, so I'm not sure Gairloch owns the strip. I too wonder about the significance of the sales center and whether...

Agreed absolutely. In fact the whole point is that there has to be room for nuance, too often it gets lost on both sides of an arguments that tend to get polarized quickly.

Ok, sure, I'll bite. What I presented was very much an opinion, not at all masquerading as fact. If you read carefully what you quoted from me it is clearly an aspirational statement for a system where developers and neighbourhoods can come together. I also agree with you entirely that just...

Hey - not sure if you're referring to my comment above in yours but, if so, I just wanted to make a few clarifications. I never said 8 storeys was unfair and never referred to height as the most meaningful issue that the community brought up. You wrote: "just because you're not getting what you...

A settlement proposal by the developer has been made and is coming up for a vote at council this week. If the City votes in favour of the proposal I'm skeptical that the community will feel like they got anything out of it The settlement does not offer any meaningful movement on the community's...

It is indeed a waste. But the narrative around how the neighbourhood and the developer have interacted around this proposal has not captured the nuance of the challenges involved. From the beginning, I think, most neighbours of this proposal (disclosure, I am one of them) have accepted this...