DSC said:
As there is a Shoppers on Lower Jarvis @ Wilton plus a large drug store area inside the Loblaws, I find it surprising they are opening another but ....
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The railway corridor + Gardiner/Lake Shore will read as a barrier. They'll be treating this as two different markets.

While not in the immediate horizon, that Loblaws is coming down redevelopment, so having the Shoppers nearby may be a hedge, particularly if there are no good alternative spaces for a Loblaws available when that site comes up.
 
This is very begrudgingly given praise, but this looked pretty good from the air today:

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Nadnev said:
Was really hoping the 2nd floor here would be used as a restaurant and patio.
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Since they have not been able to rent the larger area on the ground floor immediately below this I would say they were wise not to try for another retail area here - best left for 'events'
 
Miscreant said:
Signing into UT after years away just to say…my god what is this monstrosity on the shoreline of our city. Appalling.
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Love limberlost but the way they didn’t even bother with a setback on this stretch bugs me to no end.

From Redpath to Parliament it just feels like we’re tight to the (glass) walls. Maybe it’s how the sidewalk/bikepath are permanently in shadow that doesn’t help.

Yeah we get a reprieve with the slip and Sherbourne commons- but it doesn’t have that same “connection to the waterfront” that York to Bathurst does. Which is hilarious seeing as how we’d been told forever that the Gardiner needed to come down.

Maybe it’ll seem less stark if and when we get a grassy dedicated streetcar lane down the middle of QQ.
 
Miscreant said:
Signing into UT after years away just to say…my god what is this monstrosity on the shoreline of our city. Appalling.
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Welcome back into the fray!

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xmyth_ said:
Love limberlost but the way they didn’t even bother with a setback on this stretch bugs me to no end.

From Redpath to Parliament it just feels like we’re tight to the (glass) walls. Maybe it’s how the sidewalk/bikepath are permanently in shadow that doesn’t help.

Yeah we get a reprieve with the slip and Sherbourne commons- but it doesn’t have that same “connection to the waterfront” that York to Bathurst does. Which is hilarious seeing as how we’d been told forever that the Gardiner needed to come down.

Maybe it’ll seem less stark if and when we get a grassy dedicated streetcar lane down the middle of QQ.
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The issue is that the entire Eastern Waterfront is currently too big-boned. The roads are big, the parcels are big, the buildings are big, the parks are big.

There is a desperate lack of the cozy and human-scaled, and anything that can evolve independently on its own beyond handover from the developers.
 
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