44 North
Senior Member
Why is this a bullshit lawsuit? The Hybrid option basically fucks over the plan for their property by taking 2 acres from them and compromising another 2 acres (out of a total of 14 acres). They've been working with Waterfront Toronto and The City for years to develop this property, so they put effort into that, and then all of a sudden First Gulf invents the Hybrid, gets Tory onboard, and 3C could very well lose their property.
I'd say that their anger is valid. Would you be happy if that happened to you? I doubt it.
Have they worked with WaterfronToronto? Didn't they side with Doug Ford / BuildTO / TPLC to overthrow WaterfrontTO (i.e - the 5star hotel, ferris wheel, monorail plan)?
I recall writing this a few months back, but I do believe the City's snubbing of the 3C property and essentially leapfrogging over to the Unilever site is some kind of retribution for their siding with the Fords. When looking at the order of waterfront development, it'd make sense that 3C would be next for development. But we've heard almost nothing about the site in years. Whereas Unilever, which isn't even on the water, requires an (unfunded) $Billion for river naturalization in order to be rezoned for development, and basically came out of the blue - has become the focus of attention. And now the City wants to put a on/offramp on the 3C property? Something doesn't seem right.