Hi, all. It's my first post here - I hope I'm playing by the rules!
Found this thread by doing a search for the new "IQ" condos. I live in a house two blocks from the site, and saw the billboard pictured above this weekend. I was being nosy and toured a few open houses in the Loggia condos (also pictured above), this weekend. (Tiny!!!)
In addition to the new IQ buildings, it is my understanding that the Kipling/Queensway mall is being torn in the next few years and will be redeveloped with even more condos. That is a HUGE parcel of land.
Our area is already reeling from the addition of many different condo and townhouse developments in the last five years or so (not to mention the giant Cineplex and the three restaurants out front, as well as Costco and Ikea). The schools are becoming overcrowded; traffic is crazy; vandalism and graffiti are becoming very common, all in what used to be a very quiet neighbourhood.
I suppose that the only thing politicians see is potential tax dollars from each unit that they manage to cram in. They don't seem to think about infrastructure, schools, grocery stores, traffic, etc.
I know what has happened in the area in the past five years, and I'm scared to see what will happen in the next five with these further additions.
Thanks for letting me get that out.