canarob
Senior Member
This I agree with....plus when you add in that GO is very Union centred you would be asking/requiring people to take their GO trains from wherever they are to Union to transfer onto a train that takes them to Markham. Pretty sure most people would, either, drive or skip the event.
This I can't agree with as much. It would be more likely that someone else who owned land near VCC comes up with a competing plan. Developers like this propose projects like this to maximize the value of their land....sure they hope to bring some community benefit but they are, afterall, people in the land/property business. Saying "this does not make sense here so I will sell this land and buy land where it makes sense" is like saying "I will sell low and buy high"....not how they got rich in the first place.
Yeah, that's exactly what Remington is doing here. They are probably losing money on the arena (that parcel of land is worth a fortune!), but the marketability of the adjacent lands for office use would immediately increase (especially if an NHL team was announced), and it certainly couldn't hurt the prices of the townhomes and condos they're selling, which are already fetching decent prices for the area.