[jaborandi]

There's still something to be said about the ramshackle, torched block. It has character from the many years of owners carving out their own businesses. What's replacing it all is a large, bland podium with the character of Bay Street.

So you want Norm's Open Kitchen and its heroin snorting clientele to remain?

 

[jozl]

Glad to see those shacks bite the dust. Those overhead wires are brutally ugly.

 

[ProjectEnd]

So you want Norm's Open Kitchen and its heroin snorting clientele to remain?

'Snorting' heroin? Jesus dude...

 

[isaidso]

1 block I hoped no tourist would have to experience now gone, another 10,000+ blocks to go.

 

[stjames2queenwest]

Ok I didn’t love the block either but have been enjoying it more the last couple of years.
But 10,000 more blocks? That’s a bit too much of an exaggeration.

 

[interchange42]

1 block I hoped no tourist would have to experience now gone, another 10,000+ blocks to go.

This city is the poorer for not having Tacos 101 here. Good luck to us getting as good a spot that feels half as authentic in what will be built here. You can plan tear-downs of every block citing some clueless tourist you want to impress, but I want a city that has some character left in it when your bulldozery is complete.

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[ProjectEnd]

1 block I hoped no tourist would have to experience now gone, another 10,000+ blocks to go.

Swingandamiss tough guy.

 

[Miscreant]

I'm just happy to see the Ali Baba's gone. That specific location--though, of course, the entire germ-infested chain--was a luxury resort for stomach parasites. Disgusting.

 

[Towered]

That block was embarrassingly primitive, almost shantytown-esque, for downtown.

 

[isaidso]

This city is the poorer for not having Tacos 101 here. Good luck to us getting as good a spot that feels half as authentic in what will be built here. You can plan tear-downs of every block citing some clueless tourist you want to impress, but I want a city that has some character left in it when your bulldozery is complete.

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The affection many Torontonians have for hideous ramshackle blight in the name of 'character' is astonishing. You may have an affinity for it but it's a huge stretch to expect others to. I want better architecture just like the next person but I'm not going to defend the indefensible.

Regarding visitors to our city, I have zero interest in impressing tourists. They may be strangers but I'd still like to spare them the misfortune of stumbling upon that horror show of a block.

 

[condovo]

I'm not convinced this building's going to be much of an improvement over the "primitive" buildings it's replacing.

 

[holographic plastic]

I'm not convinced this building's going to be much of an improvement over the "primitive" buildings it's replacing.

Oh please ?

 

[Transportfan]

There's still something to be said about the ramshackle, torched block. It has character from the many years of owners carving out their own businesses. What's replacing it all is a large, bland podium with the character of Bay Street.

You have to admit those buildings are ridiculously small for modern-day downtown Toronto though, especially so close to Yonge and Dundas..

 

[salsa]

I'm not convinced this building's going to be much of an improvement over the "primitive" buildings it's replacing.

If this is what we're getting, then you're probably right.

 

[Torontovibe]

If this is what we're getting, then you're probably right.



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YIKES, that is pretty dismal!