The PanAm village is not a throughway. The PanAm village is also incredibly cold and sterile with an incredible distance between buildings. It was poorly conceived and not something to emulate.

Dedicated turn lanes, on-street parking right next to a cycle lane, and crazy wide lanes and ROWs. This design belongs in suburbia, not a city. It is completely un-urban. These roads are designed to be sped on. The city just doesn't get vision zero.

Some photos from yesterday. This project is moving real slow. Brick looks pretty nice though.

Probably $1100 to $1500 per sq ft depending on the unit would be my guess.

High quality vinyl looks better than laminate in my opinion. Significantly so.

Those trees are in terrible shape.

The first cladding appears. It doesn't look great. So very gray.

Or opening the development console and pausing script execution and then reloading the page. Easiest one to do.

I am actually doing a study right now that does this. I do a timelapse over one week taking a photo very 5 minutes. That gets combined into a composite like this: Which I can then analyze to see which units are not in use. I am currently in a washout period to give people time to return from...

New renders and floor plans. Very large units and they appear to be laid out quite well. Easier to do when they are that large though. http://assets.tridel.com/media-download/aqualuna/index.php

Metal slides are better. They slide better and last longer. The trees' shade will take care of the "problem" in due time.

The Arbour next door is also great. Will completely overshadow this office park building.

Earlier today

The space will never feel intimate. You can add tons of people and it will still feel cold. They even have street parking! It would have been so easy to make the ROWs narrower. Love the park though, completely the opposite with lots of small spaces.

My biggest disappointment with these plans is the incredibly width of the ROWs. Fees incredibly suburban. Why are there turn lanes here? Seems like it will create another cold and inhospitable public realm similar to the Wes Don lands.

Here is the presentation that Choice made at the last meeting: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3isd9515zn07tji/2280%20Dundas%20Combined%20Presentation%20-%20April%2018th%20revised.pdf?dl=0 I quite like the plans for the inside of the Rail Bank.

Interesting you should say that because there are currently 0 units for resale on MLS, but there is 27 units for rent. There has also been another 150 units rented in the past, with 0 resales. Seems like a tower of mostly renters.

There were some that objected, and some that were pro. Kind of a 50/50 split. The developer showed what they called the tent height which is a 45deg angle projected out from the surrounding homes and in general all the buildings fell within that. Apparently this is a city policy that is used...

The same people that designed Honest Eds is designing this. Looks like the same quality to me. They had a ton more renders at the presentation and have clearly given it a lot of thought. The community at the meeting was overall very much in favour of the design, a first for me.

New article with some of last night’s renders: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/04/19/developer-unveils-plans-for-massive-highrise-complex-at-bloor-and-dundas.html