Oh yes, clearly those developers and the city just love themselves some shady backroom deals, the past 15 pages of this thread discussing the development of this project and it's history, dating all the way back to 2006, notwithstanding. :rolleyes:

My source at Bazis also tells me that for their public art contribution, they want to implement a proposal similar to James Murphy's for New York's subway turnstiles (if you're not familiar...

Not at all true. And +1000 for Maestro's post.

You know precisely what I was referring to, and to say otherwise is disingenuous at best. I've no wish to sound as though I'm being unduly antagonistic, but adma raised a very legitimate concern to bmiller's ridiculously hyperbolic statement, and, rather than address it, he instead essentially...

Just a brilliant post. Didn't contribute anything at all to the conversation. Didn't address adma's observation about how, despite your uninformed hyperbole, there are indeed many people who fall into the "let's not be hasty camp", if not outright "anti." But nonetheless, just a great...

One of the most grotesquely incorrect statements to ever be posted here. When was the last time any of you critics actually walked down Yonge street? There are plenty of great retailers along Yonge now, from the like Banh Mi Boys, to Bar Volo, and the the Red Bench, with more opening up all...

Except for the fact that the lottery system essentially means that income or wealth has hardly anything to do with whether you can buy a home on the island.

From Kingston and Woodbine, October 24th, 2013:

October 24th, 2013:

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^Which doesn't make him wrong. It's Canderel and G+C after all.

Not sure where that figure came from, but to avoid any confusion, the RFQ clearly stated: "Development potential for 350,000 square feet of state-of-the-art facilities"

+1. And, if I may, I would suggest that we should instead never underestimate certain UT member's irrational fear of well founded concerns over shadowing, view corridors, and heritage, or their irrational feelings of persecution whenever the architectural merits of certain tall buildings or...

And there aren't quite the same heritage issues here as with the Gehry proposal, nor will the towers here be as tightly packed as they are proposed at 1 Yonge.

Some very quick highlights: 180 Sackville (rental building) has a targeted occupancy of 2015, with 75 RGI replacement units and 40 new affordable rent ones. To ease the transition from Cabbagetown, building heights along Gerrard have been reduced, including reducing the number of storeys...

Got to love the massively hyperbolic, ignorant and misplaced anger that occasionally creeps up at UT . The folks at City Hall would've loved the podium, which Castlepoint had secured approval for (whether through the OMB or the City, I admittedly don't recall), especially because of the arts...

Hardly the case, with G+C as the architect, never mind Canderel as the developer, Aura was perceived by many as doomed from the start, or with a cautious level of optimism at best. Great Gulf and HP, by contrast, have a much better track record of delivering higher quality buildings, and, even...

Not really part of the Village, but wasn't sure where else to put this. They've been putting up some murals around the entrance of the TCHC building at 389 Church St: Compared to how it used to look, from Google maps.

Not much new info, but things are moving forward: Abandoned George Street homes to become part of Seaton House