HousingNowTO
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Some of our volunteers attended - but there wasn't much NEWS to report if you attended the last pre-City meeting with Oxford a few months ago.
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HousingNowTO
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Northern Light
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Of course you can! One can always count on the awesome @HousingNowTO to endure every public meeting possible! LOL While amusing, the gratitude is sincere!
HousingNowTO
Senior Member
I am busy dealing with CUMMER modular & mayoral by-election stuff tonight... will post something later tonight.
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
...and my apologies for my cheekiness there. There was no intention to offend. /bows
HousingNowTO
Senior Member
...for my sins...
Sooooo much yelllow.... :-(
Searches for the words "Affordable Housing" in the City's MIDTOWN VISION slide..?
HousingNowTO
Senior Member
Cont'd...
Community "Working Groups" get a lot of attention in midtown -vs- the unwashed masses...
Community "Working Groups" get a lot of attention in midtown -vs- the unwashed masses...
HousingNowTO
Senior Member
Developer slides (highlights)
...searches for words = "Affordable Housing"...
This "Larger Public Park" render really needs a few more TENTS in it...
noted : "Similar scale to Dundas Square"
...searches for words = "Affordable Housing"...
This "Larger Public Park" render really needs a few more TENTS in it...
noted : "Similar scale to Dundas Square"
HousingNowTO
Senior Member
Buildings as "stairs" --- because ... Toronto....
Almost an "ELEMENTARY SCHOOL" sized amount of "Community Use" space now... BUT needs to be a little bigger GFA w/ large amount of time-dedicated outdoor space.
Almost an "ELEMENTARY SCHOOL" sized amount of "Community Use" space now... BUT needs to be a little bigger GFA w/ large amount of time-dedicated outdoor space.
Northern Light
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First, and foremost, ty @HousingNowTO for capturing and reposting all of that. Efforts like that are always appreciated.
Second, I concur w/most of your take....I think this iteration represents significant progress..........much closer to an 'ideal'......but not quite there..
I agree the 'school' and open space is one key issue.
We also still need to see some re-thinking of this 'Canada Square idea. It's improved considerably.......but the concept still doesn't look like it will hit the mark to me.
My only point of difference w/you would be that while 'stairs' may be a bit formulaic, 5 towers of identical height is visually quite dull.
There's no real issue here, so far as I'm concerned on total height; but varying the buildings makes some sense.
Of course there are many ways to vary buildings by shape and colour, rather than just height, and those could be utilized to greater effect here.
Still, positive evolution on the whole.
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CBToronto
New Member
Anything new , progress being made on this project, hopefully a new school is getting sorted out?
UrbanAffair
Senior Member
Please don’t bump threads. It gets everyone all excited. News will come and will be posted.
drum118
Superstar
Now the Crosstown Line will see construction wrap up by the end of 2024 or hopefully sooner, this can move forward. With the land clear by then will allow the finalization of the master plan to be done with phase 1 going to market in 2025. Couldn't go to the market with an unknown start date or when owners could move in the past few years.
I have been shooting the area close to 2 decades with this site making an impact on the area to go along what has been built as well on the books that some rethinking for the site should be look at as well other places.
I haven't followed this thread for over a year due to the Crosstown work until today while fixing some photos to see the latest plan
Both phase 1 and 2 need daycare places and it should be on the ground floor with an outside play area or on the roof of the podiums which will cause issues for the residents' use. The Edge Tower has done this for T1 that open on Jan 2 this year with it taking over 3/4 of the ground level with an outside play area.
The community use in phase 2 should be on the lines of Concord Place as a 7 x 24 place.
The one thing that was noted above is school requirements that I have strongly supported for decades of having them in the base of these towers. They could be used after-school hours and on the weekends for activities. The downside for here, there is no land for kids to play on, other than the roof of the podium. The closest sports field is just 2 blocks away.
The one thing I haven't come upon is the parking requirement for these towers that I hope will be exceptionally low since you have 2 major transit lines at the front doors. You will get the Green P under some of these towers to replace the lost parking deck that has not been fully full for years.
Aug 2016
July 10/2023
Phase 1 will have to be a 2 phase until TTC new bus terminal is built as the Crosstown station is eating up a lot of Phase 1 land now. I just noticed between this photo and what I shot on Dec 31/2023, the bike path was ready for paving, yet it was dug up on the 31st
Oct 9/2023
I have been shooting the area close to 2 decades with this site making an impact on the area to go along what has been built as well on the books that some rethinking for the site should be look at as well other places.
I haven't followed this thread for over a year due to the Crosstown work until today while fixing some photos to see the latest plan
Both phase 1 and 2 need daycare places and it should be on the ground floor with an outside play area or on the roof of the podiums which will cause issues for the residents' use. The Edge Tower has done this for T1 that open on Jan 2 this year with it taking over 3/4 of the ground level with an outside play area.
The community use in phase 2 should be on the lines of Concord Place as a 7 x 24 place.
The one thing that was noted above is school requirements that I have strongly supported for decades of having them in the base of these towers. They could be used after-school hours and on the weekends for activities. The downside for here, there is no land for kids to play on, other than the roof of the podium. The closest sports field is just 2 blocks away.
The one thing I haven't come upon is the parking requirement for these towers that I hope will be exceptionally low since you have 2 major transit lines at the front doors. You will get the Green P under some of these towers to replace the lost parking deck that has not been fully full for years.
Aug 2016
July 10/2023
Phase 1 will have to be a 2 phase until TTC new bus terminal is built as the Crosstown station is eating up a lot of Phase 1 land now. I just noticed between this photo and what I shot on Dec 31/2023, the bike path was ready for paving, yet it was dug up on the 31st
Oct 9/2023
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hawc
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Strange Advance
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Damn, I was hoping this was finally on the go in some sense.