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Chuck100
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The number one priority at Yonge and Bloor should be preserving the Harveys. Next would be building a beautiful skyscraper. It's the only fast food I ever eat, there must be more downtown!
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The Burgher of TO
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the downtown harvey's stock is really being depleted. first we lost the one at yonge/carlton, then one bedford, and sooner or later 1be is going to be gone. all that's really left is jarvis/gerrard now
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TdotTrickyRicky
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"Which area of T.O. is most in need of redevelopment?"
My answer is all of the above. I can't think of many areas that don't need redevelopment outside of a few residential enclaves. All our commercial strips, commercial centres, industrial lands and many residential districts could stand to be redeveloped. That said I don't believe in the concept of redevelopment as in flatten everything and starting new in any circumstance. Bit by bit interesting projects are needed everywhere in all neighbourhoods and districts. I am also a firm disbeliever in the concept of an area being "finished". A finished area that is untouchable, be it historic or not, is to me undesirable.
My answer is all of the above. I can't think of many areas that don't need redevelopment outside of a few residential enclaves. All our commercial strips, commercial centres, industrial lands and many residential districts could stand to be redeveloped. That said I don't believe in the concept of redevelopment as in flatten everything and starting new in any circumstance. Bit by bit interesting projects are needed everywhere in all neighbourhoods and districts. I am also a firm disbeliever in the concept of an area being "finished". A finished area that is untouchable, be it historic or not, is to me undesirable.
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Ed007Toronto
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all that's really left is jarvis/gerrard now
Front St at Market Square has one. My fave fast food joint.
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AlexisTO
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I agree with The Burgher of TO. Eglinton East - even if it's just from Victoria Park to Danforth Ave. That entire avenue is just a series of plaza after plaza after plaza.
Why don't we throw in all of central Scarborough. Much of Lawrence and Ellesmere is similar to Eglinton.
I drove along that section of Eglinton the other day. The area from Vic Park to Warden has become Big Box Store heaven. What are they thinking??
The opportunity to turn these Avenues into vibrant, dense, pedestrian friendly urban streets is being lost by allowing this drive too, Big Box development.
What they should be doing is providing dedicated transit, ala Spadina, thus narrowing roads from 6-8 lanes down to 4 with slightly wider sidewalks. Re zone to encourage mix use buildings (6 - 10 floors) right to the sidewalk with minimal parking at the rear or underground. Also do away with drive thrus. Oh yeah, plant some trees.
I guess what I am suggesting is, build West Donlands and East Bayfront type communities along our middle suburb arteries. It is part of our Offical Plan isn't it? So why all the big box stores?
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Ed007Toronto
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One of many reasons that I support an Eglinton subway line is the massive potential for redevelopment from Laird eastward. Good thing that big boxes can easily be taken down.
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building babel
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I'd like to see some of the former corner stores in my trendy residential neighbourhood - which have been redeveloped as residences - returned to commercial uses.
At Logan and Riverdale, for instance, we lost a laundry about ten years ago, and an auto shop that could've been turned into something more appropriate ( a bistro! ) to a gentrified neighbourhood became a residence instead, as did another storefront just to the north of it. These mini-plaza's, which date from the 1910's and 1920's, must've served the neighbourhood well at one time. There was a cluster of other small stores on the north west corner of Logan and Riverdale that I remember from 30 years ago that have been converted to residences over the years. The real estate office on the south east corner of Logan and Langley became a residence too ( it could've been another bistro! ) and a former corner store at Carlaw and ( I think ) Withrow became residential -both about ten years ago. Despite renovations, you can see clear signs of their original use. There's an old corner store on the north east corner of Logan and Victor, and one at the south west corner, that have similarly been lost to residential.
I strolled up Logan this morning, to vote in the by-election before work. Peter Tabuns and a couple of young friends were sitting at a table outside the Riverdale Perk at Withrow, having breakfast. On the north west corner of that intersection is another former storefront that was converted about ten years ago into residential.
I want Logan to become the corner bistro capital of Canada.
At Logan and Riverdale, for instance, we lost a laundry about ten years ago, and an auto shop that could've been turned into something more appropriate ( a bistro! ) to a gentrified neighbourhood became a residence instead, as did another storefront just to the north of it. These mini-plaza's, which date from the 1910's and 1920's, must've served the neighbourhood well at one time. There was a cluster of other small stores on the north west corner of Logan and Riverdale that I remember from 30 years ago that have been converted to residences over the years. The real estate office on the south east corner of Logan and Langley became a residence too ( it could've been another bistro! ) and a former corner store at Carlaw and ( I think ) Withrow became residential -both about ten years ago. Despite renovations, you can see clear signs of their original use. There's an old corner store on the north east corner of Logan and Victor, and one at the south west corner, that have similarly been lost to residential.
I strolled up Logan this morning, to vote in the by-election before work. Peter Tabuns and a couple of young friends were sitting at a table outside the Riverdale Perk at Withrow, having breakfast. On the north west corner of that intersection is another former storefront that was converted about ten years ago into residential.
I want Logan to become the corner bistro capital of Canada.
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jozl
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There are soooo many areas to choose from downtown. I think Queen Street East from Victoria to Parliament. Particularly the huge parking lots just east of Church Street. Yonge and Bloor, southeast corner in particular. I've always imagined a grand circular plaza at this intersection, to be like a gateway to the downtown core. Bloor streetscape improvement from Bedford to Sherbourne. Nathan Phillips Square. And just about all of Yonge Street from Charles to Dundas. I'd be happy if just half of these areas got some serious attention.
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AlvinofDiaspar
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Moved to Toronto Issues.
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fiendishlibrarian
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Rexdale.
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scarberiankhatru
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Hmm...maybe I'll nominate everything within 1 mile of the planned Spadina extension. The Wilson Wasteland, Downsview, all the land around York U, all the sprawlly industrial parks, the Vaughan Corporate Sinkhole, etc. It's like a big black hole right in the middle of the GTA.
"I drove along that section of Eglinton the other day. The area from Vic Park to Warden has become Big Box Store heaven. What are they thinking??"
They're thinking a few more power centres and they can claim the title of GTA's largest big box node away from 400/407 in Vaughan?
"the downtown harvey's stock is really being depleted. first we lost the one at yonge/carlton, then one bedford, and sooner or later 1be is going to be gone. all that's really left is jarvis/gerrard now"
I've brought this up before...very sad. I'll be forced to switch to Hero Burger permanently!
"One of many reasons that I support an Eglinton subway line is the massive potential for redevelopment from Laird eastward. Good thing that big boxes can easily be taken down."
That and the fact that it's arguably the city's busiest bus corridor. An Eglinton subway might take 100 buses off the road or allow them seriously beef up dozens of smaller routes.
"I drove along that section of Eglinton the other day. The area from Vic Park to Warden has become Big Box Store heaven. What are they thinking??"
They're thinking a few more power centres and they can claim the title of GTA's largest big box node away from 400/407 in Vaughan?
"the downtown harvey's stock is really being depleted. first we lost the one at yonge/carlton, then one bedford, and sooner or later 1be is going to be gone. all that's really left is jarvis/gerrard now"
I've brought this up before...very sad. I'll be forced to switch to Hero Burger permanently!
"One of many reasons that I support an Eglinton subway line is the massive potential for redevelopment from Laird eastward. Good thing that big boxes can easily be taken down."
That and the fact that it's arguably the city's busiest bus corridor. An Eglinton subway might take 100 buses off the road or allow them seriously beef up dozens of smaller routes.
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spmarshall
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"the downtown harvey's stock is really being depleted. first we lost the one at yonge/carlton, then one bedford, and sooner or later 1be is going to be gone. all that's really left is jarvis/gerrard now"
There's the one on Front in Market Square.
There was a Harvey's on Dundas at Yonge, that was demolished for Metropolis. The one in Union Station will be gone as well with the Union Pearson makeover. The only other one around is in the Eaton Centre south court, but it's the Eaton Centre south court.
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esplanade guy
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Dundas west of Yonge, all the way to the Don River, is a great location but in desperate need of redevelopment. Just one block east of Dundas Square, the street starts to look like something in Detroit. (and that is not a compliment! lol)
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shmoopie nhi
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spmarshall - there's a Harvey's on the PATH in the Commerce Court food court.