These poor guys working on the interlocking. They did a stellar job only to have someone come along, pull up some of the bricks, and add street signage. That must be frustrating.

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xmyth_ said:
I thought it was a lock that corner was a Shoppers.
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Other than one of the team leads on the construction team telling me it was a shoppers, I'll wait for sinage.

This would be the best spot for it, from a marketing perspective.
 
What are the odds the remaining car dealers and parking lots close to this are turned into housing soon?
 
mcbg1 said:
What are the odds the remaining car dealers and parking lots close to this are turned into housing soon?
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One of the car dealerships just RETURNED to 322 Front Street after seeing a big drop-off in business when they crossed the DVP.

The convenience of being accessible from the Southbound exit from the DVP was a huge driver of their Services business, etc.

Check out this video, "downtown chrysler moving" -
https://share.google/ITkOTcOT5Ho0qsQRG
 
HousingNowTO said:
One of the car dealerships just RETURNED to 322 Front Street after seeing a big drop-off in business when they crossed the DVP.

The convenience of being accessible from the Southbound exit from the DVP was a huge driver of their Services business, etc.

Check out this video, "downtown chrysler moving" -
https://share.google/ITkOTcOT5Ho0qsQRG
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gross
 
HousingNowTO said:
One of the car dealerships just RETURNED to 322 Front Street after seeing a big drop-off in business when they crossed the DVP.

The convenience of being accessible from the Southbound exit from the DVP was a huge driver of their Services business, etc.

Check out this video, "downtown chrysler moving" -
https://share.google/ITkOTcOT5Ho0qsQRG
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There are multiple dealerships around Cherry House. That said, I don't think they would necessarily need to close (permanently) to increase density in the area.

Isn't there a Hyundai dealership built into a condo just over the DVP? I wouldn't see an issue with doing something like that on these lots as well.
 
GameOnBrad said:
There are multiple dealerships around Cherry House. That said, I don't think they would necessarily need to close (permanently) to increase density in the area.

Isn't there a Hyundai dealership built into a condo just over the DVP? I wouldn't see an issue with doing something like that on these lots as well.
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Yea thats where the Chrysler dealer went and then moved back from
 
mcbg1 said:
What are the odds the remaining car dealers and parking lots close to this are turned into housing soon?
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The condo market's dead. Nothing's happening anywhere any time soon. Even PBR buildings are doubtful since rents are dropping.
 
Nothing like paying downtown prices to be in the thick of it all… if “all” meant sandwiched in between car lots and dealerships. Might as well give us an Arby’s already if we’ve gotta live with this blight.
 
xmyth_ said:
Nothing like paying downtown prices to be in the thick of it all… if “all” meant sandwiched in between car lots and dealerships. Might as well give us an Arby’s already if we’ve gotta live with this blight.
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Yeah, just ignore the beautiful distillery district, the vibrant St. Lawrence neighbourhood immediately to the west, an ever evolving East Bayfront to the south, a historic Corktown to the North, and two of the best parks in the city in Corktown Common and Okwemin Minising.

You’re right, what a dreadful place to live.
 
chrishurley15 said:
Yeah, just ignore the beautiful distillery district, the vibrant St. Lawrence neighbourhood immediately to the west, an ever evolving East Bayfront to the south, a historic Corktown to the North, and two of the best parks in the city in Corktown Common and Okwemin Minising.

You’re right, what a dreadful place to live.
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How about why do we have such a great neighbourhood where this crap is allowed. Is this such a crucial part to urban planning? We’ve had folks demanding 40-67 storey towers for years, demanding super density around soooo much transit. So where’s the vehemence that we’re utterly wasting all this space with dealerships?

At a minimum I should be allowed to be pissed we keep doing this.

Data centres been built for almost a decade - the old green P beside it was supposed to be a park. Nah, we get a decade of parked cars. And it’s not even parking that people can use. First structure built in the Port Lands? Porsche dealership.

If we can MZO the foundry and break height restrictions on the triangle lands, we should be able to get the dealerships out and make better use of the land.
 
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