I recently worked* in this area for two years, and it has a lot of potential. If enough of the old stock office buildings are retained, whether as office or as residential conversions, and the parking lots and low rise buildings infilled, it will have a nice diversity of architectural eras and...

I agree, although I might add Dupont Station (i.e. Dupont at Spadina). Despite being close to Summerhill, it would even out the transfer load and provide connectivity to the northern part of the west leg of Line 1.

Last Friday, October 4:

I've been too busy for the last month or so to keep up with UT as much as I like. Coming back to this thread after a break, it strikes me that we're now very close to The One surpassing 1BE in height. At the rate it's been going, I'd expect to hit that milestone by November.

To stay on the right side of history, it might be time for me to change my handle to "A Rogers Torontonian Now"

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Woah - that is a huge change for Kingston. Biggest thing since Princess Towers, which must be over 50 years ago now. BTW, Kingston is a hugely underrated city. It's downtown is far more urban and livable than its population suggests. I loved the three years I spent there.

Congrats & looking forward to those photos!

Yesterday: And my regular vantage for a couple of years over the pit of the excavation, then below ground formwork, located at the southeast corner of the site is just about to get covered over:

“Kitchener Developers, Architects Give Up, Way Up” Best one by far.

And let's remember that the KPMG building would never have been built but for the anticipated opening of the subway.

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I think a different cynical reason might be behind this, which is less deep lots, and therefore smaller lots and greater density per subdivision. But I agree that it is also architecturally more pleasing than the shoved-out-front garages.

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