[hawc]

Great article on the area. Doomed!

Heather Mallick: The ballad of Yonge and Bloor: Locked doors and empty stores

With the impending closure of the Bay, the intersection is not as Yonge as it once was. Is it the pandemic, or will this be permanent?

www.thestar.com

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

I don't think we've ever seen this kind of activity on this (building) site. A veritable beehive of activity.

It's all a buzz?

 

[dodgeram]

Great article on the area. Doomed!

Heather Mallick: The ballad of Yonge and Bloor: Locked doors and empty stores

With the impending closure of the Bay, the intersection is not as Yonge as it once was. Is it the pandemic, or will this be permanent?

www.thestar.com

What a garbage piece, exactly what I’d expect from a rag like the Toronto Star. Of course no mention of the fact that 2 Bloor East will be redeveloped. Same for 2 Bloor West’s podium. Mentions retailers leaving along Bloor (these will be replaced by new tenants). Refers to 1 Bloor East as a monstrosity, I suppose they would have preferred the old buildings?

 

[evandyk]

To be fair, there were some really good restaurants on the backside of that. Not that Heather Mallick would have set foot in any of them, though.

 

[Cryptopreneur]

What a garbage piece, exactly what I’d expect from a rag like the Toronto Star. Of course no mention of the fact that 2 Bloor East will be redeveloped. Same for 2 Bloor West’s podium. Mentions retailers leaving along Bloor (these will be replaced by new tenants). Refers to 1 Bloor East as a monstrosity, I suppose they would have preferred the old buildings?
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What do you expect from a news reporter that doesn't know what zoning is?

 

[Northern Light]

What do you expect from a news reporter that doesn't know what zoning is?

Heather Mallick is not a reporter, literally.

She's an opinion writer/columnist.

It's not a thoughtful piece, hers rarely are; but we shouldn't cast aspersions on journalists using a writing sample of someone who is not one.

 

[Urbia-Suburbia]

Great article on the area. Doomed!

Heather Mallick: The ballad of Yonge and Bloor: Locked doors and empty stores

With the impending closure of the Bay, the intersection is not as Yonge as it once was. Is it the pandemic, or will this be permanent?

www.thestar.com

It's an opinion piece. No more - no less. For any opinion expressing such dystopian outlook, there's another that views the future of the Mizrahi project and the (post-pandemic) Yonge/Bloor area with optimism and, dare I say, cautious excitement.

 

[Cryptopreneur]

Heather Mallick is not a reporter, literally.

She's an opinion writer/columnist.

It's not a thoughtful piece, hers rarely are; but we shouldn't cast aspersions on journalists using a writing sample of someone who is not one.

This was kinda my point

 

[Northern Light]

I will add, in reference to the Mallick piece, its overblown melodrama to one side..........she wasn't completely wrong that 1 Bloor East did not handle its retail/relationship to the street particularly well.

The overhang does not work, and the uninterrupted glass at street level is too much; the absence of trees on Yonge is also unfortunate.

Pare back the overhang, extend the grade out just a bit, find a nice material to break up the mass of the podium just a bit.....and it would be improved considerably.

 

[tstormers]

it might be easier for you to just go directly to the source: https://secure.toronto.ca/AIC/index.do?folderRsn=WeDvkpX+8RCk+V1DT6idBw==#detail1
click onto the application from 2020, and then from the supporting documents dropdown, download the architectural plans dated Decem 18, 2020!

Thank you, @madknife

Looks like the structure in the columns change on the next floor and I beams only on one side. Then the columns change around the 49th floor getting shallower and again on 62nd, all showing no I beam, so I would assume only rebar interiors.

7th

8th

49th

62nd

 

[thaivic]

 

[DirectionNorth]

Great article on the area. Doomed!

Heather Mallick: The ballad of Yonge and Bloor: Locked doors and empty stores

With the impending closure of the Bay, the intersection is not as Yonge as it once was. Is it the pandemic, or will this be permanent?

www.thestar.com

I like how the leading image shows pedestrian and cyclist activity, with construction underway on another condo.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

Looks like the structure in the columns change on the next floor and I beams only on one side. Then the columns change around the 49th floor getting shallower and again on 62nd, all showing no I beam, so I would assume only rebar interiors.

So those koala bear faces will get small and smaller?

 

[AdamS]

 

[thaivic]