[Midtown Urbanist]

Regardless of the anti-development sentiments, it is kind of funny that Burlington appears the 905 municipality as the most poised to create a dense, but vibrant urban fabric.

Besides Burlington Downtown and Burlington GO areas, Aldershot also is booming with a lot more to come. Appleby area is largely employed lands and looks set to lag behind the other mobility hubs however.

 

[salsa]

Sept 28

 

[Jasonzed]

 

[innsertnamehere]

I’ll note that while the brown cladding looks like EIFs, it’s actually hand-laid brick. There is stone finishing along the base of this as well. Surprisingly High quality finishings here actually, especially for a failed Mady project.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

Burlington's downtown is looking impressive in those photos. I wonder how much more development we will see in the area in the coming years.

 

[innsertnamehere]

Burlington's downtown is looking impressive in those photos. I wonder how much more development we will see in the area in the coming years.

There is quite a bit in the pipeline.. there are 4 buildings under construction right now and more coming. It isn’t Mississauga City Centre or VMC, but It seems to be the only major “historic” downtown in the 905 that is actually intensifying in major ways. It’ll be interesting to watch.

 

[Edward Skira]

 

[Edward Skira]

 

[AlbertC]

The brick and stone is pretty decent quality. However, the proportion of spandrel among the window wall definitely pegs this down several marks in my books.

 

[Dustin William]

Shot by me this past May 24 weekend.

 

[innsertnamehere]

Some more. The plaza in the centre is quite nice with retail lining it. High quality real stone on the lower levels for the facade.

there is an odd public passageway to the plaza on the second floor along the west side of the building that I can’t quite figure out:

 

[DavidCapizzano]

This turned out really nicely! I know folks in the area were opposed to the height here but I think the result is pretty great for Burlington and could be a game changer for their waterfront / downtown. Anxious to see what kind of retail ends up here... I look forward to checking this one out irl

 

[innsertnamehere]

There is a Canada Post office open already in one of the retail units, and signage is up in one of the windows along Lakeshore for Bread Bar, a popular restaurant out of Hamilton. So retail tenants so far seem good. It'll be interesting to see what takes the interior retail units along the plaza, they aren't exactly prime. Perhaps they are connected to the lakeshore facing units, who knows.

 

[Branden Simon]

The construction is complete for Bridgewater condos

 

[Northern Light]

The building isn't bad, but its siting is unfortunate.

This photo by @Dustin William just makes me sad.

What you see is a profound hardening of the shoreline to prevent erosion.

A natural shoreline here would mix different types of beach (sand/stone etc.) with marsh and coastal forest.

I'm aware this is an urban area, but notice there isn't one iota of any of the above; and the hardening of the shoreline really serves to protect buildings that would be borderline non-viable without it.

This would be due to both erosion, flooding and wave action all of which would impact on a building built so close to shore on a major body of water, but for the intervention.

Just as we protect ravines, the rules should be to keep buildings back from the water's edge of any Lake to at least 10M beyond the 100-year flood/wave line.

Which is most cases would be would be well in land.

I'm not suggesting we remove what was built foolishly close to the water in the past, but compounding the mistake should not be acceptable.

At any rate, this space should be have been zoned park space 40 years ago; and then legal-nonconforming.

When whatever was there came due for demolition, it should have sold to the City for parkland, the end.

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I'll add, that very similar to Humber Bay Shores, the park space here is already quite crowded in good weather, and it will soon be overwhelmed by additional development.