Oh say more!

I may have shared this previously on this or another thread, but to @Northern Light's point about the viability of patio seating, I got an interesting anecdote from a U of T bigwig a little while ago: before the Landmark project, they ran a little test case on patio seating because they wanted...

when you spy a @kotsy pic in the wild (uncredited, no less...):

Not for nothing, but I also get a chuckle out of the notion of the city that has "ball hockey playing not permitted" signs on its streets and "no tobogganing" signs in its parks being cool with a tree walk.

Take the entire tree walk budget and put it to plantings, pavers, and seating.

If they're not done by May 28, 2028, Allied are royally hooped...

AKA gardening leave.

That's a very solid effective land price, even in today's market, if they get anything close to their density ask (which they will).

That's an insult to printers tbqh.

The real race: this project breaking ground vs. the Ontario Science Centre roof collapsing...

...that, and presumably it also means the City's de facto endorsement of having these dealers queue cars and car trailers in the f***ing bike lane all the time will be rendered moot. Also, ban Arcadis.

The lobby looks open and there is an A-frame standing outside, so I'm assuming they've started PDIs.

This might be the most self-aware thing a sports billionaire has ever done.

To me it's less a question of height and more one of massing/bulk; I just don't think that west side is very well resolved, and that's the one that really has (or Ideally should have) a dialogue with Convocation Hall and the little north-south road down to College. And maybe I'd feel a bit...

Not so sure about the scale of this here.

Also does this imply that they would be fine with legal deer hunting?

The 5-7-storey cladding lag thing is a pretty common trope that I hear a lot from old school construction folks, or from folks who’ve picked that up from old school construction folks. It takes one look around almost any site in the city to see that this fairly rarely occurs. There are also...

It doesn't really indicate anything other than the seller (Zinc) hired an architect with whom it had worked previously to prepare basic elevations and plans to support an upzoning that the seller felt was required to extract maximum value for the site given the new PMTSA framework and recent...

To boot — this somewhat odd exchange has reminded me that I took a leasing tour of the market units in May of last year. Pics of those units below. I toured 5 or 6 different units, both with and without exposed ceilings. Finishes look to be broadly the same as in the affordable units...

I would also add to this that the City has demonstrated less than no interest in regulating unit layouts. I have tried on numerous occasions to get Staff to care about unit layouts as a way to understand some of our “asks” related to the form of the building (sculpting, setbacks, stepbacks...