Honestly looked better before they painted the "brick".

Probably as the cladding is giving art-deco vibes, the crown just looks like a stump. There's no finishing cap detail, it just ends.

Yes, which goes back to my earlier point that 4 lanes for such a collector (connecter) is over designed. It's probably an older design that predates the complete streets guide for the city but the city really needs to crack down on site plans and road designs that don't comply with their own...

Some very odd choices here considering it doesn't connect to the waterdown bypass without going back to Hwy5/Dundas.

Calling it an arterial is maybe a stretch, seems like a grossly oversized collector considering the size of the subdivision there.

This thing needs a spire.

My god that roundabout is massive for a local street.

Hey now, scotia tower is a pretty sweet vaguely pomo tower

Might be cyber attack related, wonder if the city is having difficulty paying invoices and the contractor just paused work.

Yeah what I hear from the City is that the recovery will not be fun.

That two storey entrance driveway is a straight downgrade from the previous design.

Yeah this looks like very preliminary massing, not putting retail literally attached to an LRT would be lunacy. Nice to see redevelopment thoughts on it though. Edit: this also makes me realize the delta block building is PRIME for development into an iconic building.

Unclear what will become of this section of King post-LRT now. Presumably they won't keep it as fully 5 lane one way but that also depends on the MTO changing the ramps. A nice reduced width 4-lane two way with a tree lined median leading into westdale would be nice.

The RFPs were expected earlier this year but as it wasn't decided who will operate it, they may have delayed the RFP. The city finally made their reccomendation, so its again in MX's hands. The lack of ground floor retail here is baffling. Literally beside an LRT stop. The amenity space even...

honestly i'd be fine with concrete if they at least finished it with a nice sealer. I've seen some beautiful concrete countertops done this way.

Seriously why, its roughly a 1km from the LRT terminus, and less than 800m from the Nash Rd stop??? It should be more units with less parking! edit: to be fair the site plan is not great. Should be much less surface parking and less open sod areas, but that's probably not why they are blocking it.

Uh. I don't know how much watermain work you've done that's not how it works. Coliform is an indicator, and the whole system needs to get flushed and disinfected, and then retested. Doesn't 100% mean the water was bad but you don't fuck around with water quality like that, especially on a large...

Indeed, this is exactly the sort of thing public approvals and zoning should address. I'm honestly just unsure how this site plan ever got through.

Yes, but that's not really relevant. A single storey building is cheaper than a multi storey one, yet we still build them. The issue is more that surface parking on high-value land is a waste, how many more rooms or homes could have been included instead of parking? Or commercial uses, or green...

the question then is why is a hotel known for surface parking located at a future LRT stop. The downtown district should really just have a ban on future surface parking.