[ttk77]

Our picture taking friend in the tower crane is there no longer - http://torontoist.com/2015/06/skyjacked-signs-off/

Too bad. Going to miss those shots.

 

[Tewder]

They should light it up. It's a fine building and vista when looking east on Front Street at Union Station.

One of the most impressive colonnades in North America I would say?

 

[agoraflaneur]

From College the L Tower looks very nice.

 

[rdaner]

The little retail space(s) along Yonge look about ready. And I live in hopes that the original 'boot toe' will one day see the light of day. Imagine it as a contemporary art museum space! Pix taken 12 June 2015.

 

[DSC]

The little retail space(s) along Yonge look about ready. And I live in hopes that the original 'boot toe' will one day see the light of day. Imagine it as a contemporary art museum space! Pix taken 12 June 2015.

Is that really retail? I thought it was the entrance to lower levels of Sony. Doubt retail will be too successful there - Sony store on Front certainly wasn't - and your dreams of the boot are fantasy.

 

[khris]

The little retail space(s) along Yonge look about ready. And I live in hopes that the original 'boot toe' will one day see the light of day. Imagine it as a contemporary art museum space! Pix taken 12 June 2015.

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There's retail space in L Tower?

 

[Jaguar4u]

The Boot got the boot from the City way back when they decided to not invest in the Arts Lab. They gave the developer a year to come up with private funding. When that didn't happen they had to redesign the podium and add a lower condo section, now up to 11th floor. I actually love the new design. The boot was very controversial as well if you'll remember. Either you hated it or loved it, there was no in between.

 

[salsa]

Does anyone have a picture of what the boot would have looked like? I wasn't on the forums at the time.

 

[Marcanadian]

Does anyone have a picture of what the boot would have looked like? I wasn't on the forums at the time.

 

[Armour]

This tower would look bad up close with the boot or without it given its cheap quality cladding (some of the worst I've seen on a Toronto condo). With high quality curtain wall on all sides, and the boot design in tact, this could have been a real stunner.

 

[Miscreant]

The way this building meets Yonge St. is atrocious. I strongly feel the boot would have been better, as what we've gotten looks like an ad hoc, half baked quarter-attempt.

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

It still could have been achieved as a retail area of some size and condos above, the developer chose not to. With so many Dickinson buildings gone (or madly altered), I always thought the boot stomping on top of the Sony Centre was not-so-attractive, and certainly disrespectful.

 

[Red October]

That corner of Front and Yonge is a dead zone. If anything the boot would have improved it.

 

[junctionist]

The intersection still sees a lot of pedestrian traffic, but everyone is going somewhere else.

 

[urbandreamer]

Maybe a little taco shack/coffee bar would work?