[tripwire]

Oh I'm very much excited! Just tempered significantly with reality. I mean, you just have to look at Sugar Wharf, Daniel's, and Lakeside. Monde is great, but all the others range from bland to just butt-ugly. The Quayside renders are just so fantastical in comparison that I don't have the confidence to treat it as anything but fantasy. I am excited though!

 

[TheSix]

Oh I'm very much excited! Just tempered significantly with reality. I mean, you just have to look at Sugar Wharf, Daniel's, and Lakeside. Monde is great, but all the others range from bland to just butt-ugly. The Quayside renders are just so fantastical in comparison that I don't have the confidence to treat it as anything but fantasy. I am excited though!

I totally hear you and agree with said "butt-ugly" projects.

But the projects you're using as a comparison are not direct apples to apples with the situation at Quayside – which has international attention, a larger RFP process for a neighbourhood (with a cultural hub), and signed on internationally celebrated architects and planners. Why I think we'll get a step above Bayside vs. what we've seen with the buildings to the immediate west (which are disappointments).

 

[stjames2queenwest]

Let’s hope! It does look amazing.

 

[myself]

RFQ put out on the Waterfront Toronto site

https://waterfrontoronto.ca/sites/default/files/2022-04/Quayside%20Request%20for%20Qualifications%20%2B%20Addenda%201-8%20%282021%29.pdf

edit: I think these might be old.. their new site doesn't order things chronologically very well anymore.

 

[AlbertC]

New piece from Renx on the Quayside project:

Dream, Great Gulf update Quayside on Toronto waterfront | RENX - Real Estate News Exchange

Dream Unlimited Corp. and Great Gulf Group will together develop two of the most significant properties along the Toronto waterfront during the coming decade. As partners on both the 12-acre Quayside property and the nearby Victory Silos site along Lake

renx.ca

 

[Koops65]

 

[HousingNowTO]

Spoke to EXEC Committee yesterday about QUAYSIDE and their draft numbers on creating new Affordable Housing -

https://twitter.com/x/status/1547227268585594882

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

From the July WT DRP:

https://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/sites/default/files/2022-07/Design%20Review%20Panel%20Meeting%20Presentation%20-%20Quayside%20Infrastructure%20and%20Public%20Realm%20%28DRAFT%29%20-%20July%2027%2C%202022.pdf

AoD

 

[Northern Light]

From the above link in @AlvinofDiaspar 's post:

Now a close-up of the render on the right:

@3Dementia ... you wanted some evergreens, look down (whether this works out to be more than a render we shall see! )

 

[christiesplits]

Sidewalk Labs and/or Trudeau may have skirted lobbying rules by chatting about the Quayside proposal in 2017.

Sidewalk Labs project gained support from Trudeau in 2017 call ahead of bid process

The private, undisclosed call took place in January, 2017, two months before the project was open for bidders

www.theglobeandmail.com

(paywall)

 

[Northern Light]

Sidewalk Labs and/or Trudeau may have skirted lobbying rules by chatting about the Quayside proposal in 2017.

Sidewalk Labs project gained support from Trudeau in 2017 call ahead of bid process

The private, undisclosed call took place in January, 2017, two months before the project was open for bidders

www.theglobeandmail.com

(paywall)

I'm afraid to say, but stuff like that is all too common irrespective of who's in power.

There are loopholes in lobbying rules that loom quite large, above and beyond which people may just ignore them, and accept what risk may flow from that.

 

[3Dementia]

Just a time-line tidbit from a recent Waterfront Toronto blog... they are launching a design competition in 2023 for Silo Park just east of Parliament Slip.

Looks there's a chance we may see both Silo Park and perhaps Parliament Slip established, well before the Quayside community starts to rise.

UT

 

[HousingNowTO]

...I also spy some unfunded Waterfront East LRT vehicles on Queens Quay East in that image...

 

[generalcanada]

Waterfront Toronto and Quayside Impact confirm agreement to develop Quayside | Waterfront Toronto

www.waterfrontoronto.ca

deal signed, they mention a car free street? is that just the laneway on the north side of the buildings?

 

[Northern Light]

they mention a car free street? is that just the laneway on the north side of the buildings?

I don't think they said 'street'; I think they said car-free green oasis, and meant #4 on the map below: