[fedplanner]

It's a shame that Pemberton's regrettable buildings on the south side left 5 consecutive blocks of dead streetscape and wasted opportunity though.

I was just thinking that from the pic above. It's a killjoy for the area. I'm all for intensification but not if it looks like that! I'm not a design person, so what went wrong with the Pemberton block?

 

[AlbertC]

^ As mentioned on previous page, disallowing restaurants in these buildings is a major factor as it deprives the possibility for what is the most engaging and interactive form of retail usage. On a design standpoint, having repetitively uniformed green framing and precast pillars creates a monotonous streetscape of entrepreneurial bleakness. It hinders the potential for creative branding and distinctive storefronts. Trendy retailers require spaces that are homey and stimulating.

 

[urbandreamer]

Of course, not everywhere can be trendy. It's interesting that BlogTO rarely covers indie shops along Eglinton, St Clair, the Danforth etc. To many hundreds of thousands of Torontonians, it is these strips that are "cool" to them.

 

[ProjectEnd]

Nothing new here but this was approved in April of last year at the OMB.

Link.

Any movement on site?

 

[ChesterCopperpot]

http://app.toronto.ca/DevelopmentAp...ion=init&folderRsn=3099139&isCofASearch=false

Design by Richard Zeigler - there are architectural drawings in the link

 

[innsertnamehere]

This corner will be a good "example" spot for city planning documents on midrise avenues once done.. Midrises on 3 of the 4 corners.

 

[ChesterCopperpot]

Action on site at the weekend

 

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F I N A L L Y

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[Benito]

Wow, that has taken forever to start. Is any of the commercial space leased yet next door?

 

[interchange42]

Earlier today…

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[nstuch]

the rendering seems to be missing the wooden hydro poles laden with transformers and a billion wires going all over the place

 

[Edward Skira]

Shoring work has started.

 

[maestro]

the rendering seems to be missing the wooden hydro poles laden with transformers and a billion wires going all over the place

LOL... If I had a dollar everytime someone posted ...

 

[innsertnamehere]

 

[ChesterCopperpot]

Yesterday