You just repeated what was already said?

From Sheppard and Leslie it would take around 30 minutes to drive to the waterfront even with regular traffic (and 20 minutes without), whereas it would take nearly an hour to take the TTC there.

'Permit Issued' seems to be the final status, are you sure none of the buildings had that?

Your dad was probably in the top 0.1% relative to the overall world population in the mid 1970s. In 2022 terms the pool of top 0.1% would be something like a medium sized city mayor in India or deputy-mayor in China. Or upper-middle management at one of the big tech companies. I'm sure it's...

Safdie’s design had absurdly massive skybridges so it makes sense the developers cut those. But the increased density seems almost pointless. It just makes the units stuck in permanent shade worth a lot less. Not to mention the greatly increased mass complicating building so many support column...

It would be within walking distance of the new Sheppard & Mccowan subway station, though would the city approve upzoning that much? Even if only 100 acres out of 148 is converted, that’s still 300 acres of residential floorspace…

FSI of 3 for industrial buildings? I’ve never seen a 5 story factory/warehouse before. Also, it seems like if CP got rid of the northern tracks it would open up an area roughly 1500m x 400m, which is roughly 148 acres, so this may be the biggest land sale ever.

This does seem to be the only big plot of bare land left for industrial development in Toronto, I wonder how much it would have to sell for to make it worthwhile for CP to rearrange the tracks. $5 million an acre?

Thanks for the photo. This neighborhood makes more sense since it likely predates the decision to build the yard. Considering industrial property values have skyrocketed recently maybe it will be converted to industrial land in the future? I wonder if that has ever happened before…

’Open’ would be less ambiguous.

The current building seems to be a pretty decent 11 floor office. I wonder what the opportunity cost is of a few years of missed tenancy.

Why not set it according to whatever the city says? It could even be automated to save effort.

I'm surprised there's a setback on the side facing the road, but almost no setback on the side facing the existing row of townhouses. Especially when the only major building on the other side of the road has a completely windowless wall and is much shorter than the building opposite of the...

Thanks for the info. That is kinda weird, since it's marked as 'completed' in the UT database. Did someone mark it in error?

Hmm that's interesting, I had always thought commercial fit out fell under the permits already obtained by the developer. What counts as fully completed then, when the city inspectors give the final approval, when the title transfers to purchasers, something else?

Does this mean it's still incomplete until they finish the alterations?

Thanks for the historic photo. Neat to see it was all farmland surrounding the yard. But it's curious, why would the developer have specifically have wanted land right next to the yard when there was more space between McNicoll and Steeles? Clearly that area was also farmland at the time so it...

Namely, the below circled neighborhoods seem incredibly close to such a large railway yard. Wouldn’t industrial/commercial land there have been much more valuable and also much more sensible? And its not like there was a shortage of demand for such spaces since even areas quite far away from...

Is it me or is the quality of glazing, or the exterior film, way higher than the average condo?

5 visitor parking spots though... seems ridiculously small for 614 units. Wasn't too long ago that visitor parking spots were around 10% of the total unit count.