[AlbertC]

http://www.leslievillelofts.com/flash.php

Now in pre-registration. No info yet on the building or location.

 

[bar1967]

Isn't this the one going at the corner of Dundas and Carlaw?

 

[billonlogan]

I hope its the lot with the abandoned sales centre at Carlaw and Colgate just north of Queen. This site has been a real eyesore for a long time. There is another residential project on Colgate called AdobeLofts. John Bentley Mays wrote a piece on it earlier this summer.
http://www.myabodelofts.com/pdf/Globe&Mail,July27-07(Abode).pdf

 

[Urban Shocker]

The new shantytown of flimsily built, fake Victorian houses near there is ghastly. I far preferred the old factory that stood there - especially at night when it was functional, belching smoke and eerily lit - back in the mid-1970's

 

[junctionist]

Even in the early nineties, Toronto had so many interesting factories. And about the faux-Victorians, do they have any exterior walls covered with siding? It's an ugly yet common cost saving technique.

 

[Urban Shocker]

I wouldn't be surprised - there's no depth to which those sorts of people won't sink.

 

[adma]

In the 80s, I guess such sided walls would have been paradoxically excused as "post-modern honesty" (i.e. honest about the brick fronts being false fronts)

 

[AlbertC]

 

[Hipster Duck]

Not bad, but that wraparound brick balcony on the second level (just above the ground floor) makes it feel squat. If they simply cut that out, and had an unbroken glass curtain (plus balconies) for five floors, it would look pretty stunning.

 

[Urban Shocker]

There's a big sign for it on the empty lot on the west side of Broadview just north of Queen.

 

[urbandreamer]

It's a pity Streetcar didn't get the Cityplace contract.

 

[maestro]

Is this streetcar?


I don't know ... streetcar loves stucco and alunimum siding

 

[Hydrogen]

Brad Lamb is a sales agent and not a developer. His organization is selling the project.

 

[urbandreamer]

Maybe someone will buy jilly's and turn it into a hipster strip bar? That would be interesting.

But Broadview isn't in Leslieville--so the project name is misleading. It will sell of course--the area is slowly changing and has some tasty restaurants.

 

[maestro]

Lamb has his own development company called Lamb Development Corp.

AFAIK, Work Lofts is the first sole project by this firm which so far has been partnering with other developers including Leslieville in more of a financial than a developmental role.