DonValleyRainbow
Senior Member
I think keeping the bents provides more potential opportunities than it squanders.
From the looks of the last photos, at least 2 piers are going to remain as well a few others for the York Ramp.
While there is nothing about Harbour Street that gives me the warm fuzzies, I wonder if anyone here has seen downtown Dallas or Atlanta. That is soul-sucking. Street level parking garages. Liquor stores with bars attended by guys with guns. Cars roaring by at 60 miles an hour and windowless high-rise convention centres. And not a soul to see if you are shot, raped or run over should any of those eventualities come to pass.?..but it definitely won't be soul-sucking as it was before.
p.s. My apologies for the huge photo dumps
While there is nothing about Harbour Street that gives me the warm fuzzies, I wonder if anyone here has seen downtown Dallas or Atlanta.
Yep. That about sums it up.Been to downtown Atlanta.
Absolutely terrible city.
Been to downtown Atlanta, which I wrote about a while ago: http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/thread...ed-to-other-cities.20287/page-22#post-1028632
Absolutely terrible city.
At a first glance I thought that Westin was our Westin hotel. Hope ours gets redone soon.
Is anyone amazed at the pace of this demolition?![]()
Though I agree the Conference Centre building is ripe for redevelopment I gather that having an attached conference centre is essential to the occupancy rates for the hotel. If the current low-rise is torn down I bet any replacement will have a similar centre as part of it.It might. The group that bought it in 2013 listed it for sale in 2016 (probably sold by now; don't know). The hotel has good occupancy rates, so I doubt they'll tear down any of the main structure but underused conference center structure to the north is ripe for redevelopment.
Though I agree the Conference Centre building is ripe for redevelopment I gather that having an attached conference centre is essential to the occupancy rates for the hotel. If the current low-rise is torn down I bet any replacement will have a similar centre as part of it.
Though I agree the Conference Centre building is ripe for redevelopment I gather that having an attached conference centre is essential to the occupancy rates for the hotel. If the current low-rise is torn down I bet any replacement will have a similar centre as part of it.