To throw my 2 cents in regarding McMaster, the brutalism is actually quite nice close up. I think the mechanical floors on the top that are just clad in metal really bring the whole thing down and it would be nice to see those replaced with something slighly more attractive in the future.

Amazing what a touch of nice material can do

I'm extremely familiar with the design! (wink wink) Yeah the scope was never for a redesign of the road, just tweaks to the existing one. I wish there was budget for more as Upper Wentworth is a very odd design with left turn channels everywhere. Even maintaining current levels of car traffic...

You can sorta see in the option plans there that they are building a new pedestrian path from the terminal to the mall (entrance by the starbucks I assume). I'm not privy to the design there (the terminal is being done by Arcadis, unsure what their scope is), so I'm not sure if there is any...

I think the eventual goal is to build the mall out into the parking lots.

Yeah this is horrendous, what the heck is all the parking for?? Playground sandwiched in the corner next to the parking garage. Landscape Architect drinking while drawing the path to the rail trail. Internal road (and parking garage) are two way for no particular reason making them way wider...

Unfortunately the way the site is laid out doesn't work well with that. You'd have to realign the mall road which I don't think they plan on doing.

Note these siteplans feature the upcoming MUP on Wentworth that goes from the North side of the Linc to Kingfisher

Until the LRT gets extended towards University Plaza (lol), I don't see that part of Main being much but a car sewer. You can put lipstick on a pig and improve the pedestrian realm, but it'll still be adjacent to a busy 5 lane stroad and there isn't any alternative routes. I think the comming...

As mentioned refering to this "block" Particularly as Sanders Blvd leads to the pedestrian crossing into the University. I suspect many of these houses are already student rentals due to demand, so why not develop the area to reflect the actual use. Sanders would probably made a nice car-lite...

The political decision would be ignoring and then building on a flood zone, and would be incredibly short sighted in this day and age. What I would love to see is that little pocket of detached housing on the north west corner of cootes/main get redeveloped into a little university town. Kills...

I'd be surprised if this goes anywhere given that remediation for a gas station and an autoshop will probably take time and money.

Three cranes, it should go pretty quickly.

CLT panels? Nice! If that is the case it should get built out very quicky as it's likely all pre manufactured and they're just assembling.

Yeah the podium is bad, I echo Chris' statements. More commercial and a smaller lobby, increase bike parking to 1:1 and reduce the car parking, hopefully the podium options were better looking.

The reference design will be used for contractors to make estimates and schedules, and then they'll use them to develop detailed design packages for specific packages. Seems like metrolinx is doing high level design, and then leaving the detailed construction design to the proponents. The...

Wonder if they hit shale, you think they would know about that though if they'd done boreholes. Edit: for anyone curious, go take a gander at the storm water pond behind the Walmart, or even just the Hwy6 hill, don't have to go very deep there before finding shale.

Somewhat worried that means the RFP won't go out until then.

Excellent, hopefully we get some updated renders with materials soon.

my god the parking, I get its the meadowlands but oof. If you could knock it down to 1 per unit you could probably manage to give people small gardens.