[DavidCapizzano]

 

[Redroom Studios]

they need to keep the red highlights on the balconies when they are finished! the red seems to tie the whole project together with the heritage brick buildings!

 

[Banana78]

 

[Amare]

they need to keep the red highlights on the balconies when they are finished! the red seems to tie the whole project together with the heritage brick buildings!

Umm...ok?

 

[isaidso]

Such an improvement. I bought a fair amount of stuff at Honest Ed's over the years, when you only cared about price and not quality, but there are plenty of places you can do that, and they shouldn't occupying a huge block at a prominent corner, half a block from a subway station.

It is an improvement but your scratch test for whether something has value would render most things in prominent locations an inefficient use of space. Things have value beyond the utilitarian. If they didn't, we'd tear every such building down and re-locate them inside a modern high-rise.

 

[evandyk]

It is an improvement but your scratch test for whether something has value would render most things in prominent locations an inefficient use of space. Things have value beyond the utilitarian. If they didn't, we'd tear every such building down and re-locate them inside a modern high-rise.

That's true if you extend the principle to everything, but if you're talking about low-hanging fruit, Honest Ed's was it.

Has anyone heard from them about potential rentals? I put my name on the list quite a while ago.

 

[ADRM]

Pavers in along the south edge.

First real miss of the project (which is a pretty good sign) is this glazing on the daycare:

 

[Northern Light]

@ADRM was out teasing us all earlier in the week with his interlocking brick reveal.............so it drew me out to have a closer look.

Photos taken January 15th, 2023:

The first pair are from Lennox, north side of Central Tech, looking west:

Now up close: (all along the south elevation)

That interlock noted by ADRM extends along pretty much the entire southern flank of the site:

It goes a bit further too....(looking up Bathurst:

One more post, as I always run out of space on this site!

 

[Northern Light]

Continuing from the above:

The brick almost extends to Bloor, but not quite:

The balance of the elevation from Bloor:

 

[Victor1]

If that lime green insulation (?) was the final cladding this would have been so cool! It looks really good to me.

 

[bgobgo]

If that lime green insulation (?) was the final cladding this would have been so cool! It looks really good to me.

I agree we need more colour in the city but a random section of green on a project with white/black/grey would look out of place in my opinion.

 

[greenleaf]

Applications for affordable housing units here open up today.

 

[HousingNowTO]

Applications for affordable housing units here open up today.

New Affordable Rental Homes at 500 Bloor Street West​

In Spring 2023, 85 new affordable rental homes are opening at 500 Bloor Street West (Mirvish Village).

Westbank has released an Expression of Interest (EOI) for 37 new affordable rental homes. These studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom homes are located in a new master-planned community (Mirvish Village) with rents set at $1,004, $1,185, $1,396 and $1,608 per month.

An additional 48 homes will be filled through community not-for-profit housing partners.

For more information about the EOI and the selection process, please visit the Mirvish Village website.

The deadline for responses is March 6, 2023 at 5 p.m. EST.

LINK - https://mirvish-village.com/affordable-rental-portal

 

[abovegrade]

There seems to be a new website design for mirvish-village.com, it's kinda cool.

 

[vatche]

All the sidewalks are grey. They should use pink pavers.