when i see how inefficient it appears to be to build around and on top of the existing parking garage and i look at the metropolis floorplans and see how hard it is going to be to lease out the units on the lowest two levels, i find it hard to believe that an arrangement couldn't have been made to bulldoze the parking garage when the rest of the site was demolished, dig down 3 stories over the entire site and make the lowest two levels into parking.
victoria and gould could have been given an entrance to metropolis providing the campus with direct subway access.
i doubt anyone with ryerson foresaw the 30 year delay getting this thing started, the bookstore could have been relocated temporarily.