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I think Battery Park is one of the ugliest condo buildings in the city.
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I think Battery Park is one of the ugliest condo buildings in the city.
Every big building completed in town in the last year is up for a Pug - some buildings come out as favourites too.
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I did check it out this afternoon. The Village centre appears to be a giant parking lot with a strip mall attached just for good measure. The factory conversions are just fine. Alas, I see a battle brewing between the new townhouses and the new condo towers for ugliest building in the Village. The towers are just plain bland while the towns are faux something or other. The Liberty Lofts look promising in the renderings but then, even I woud look great with purple evening lighting. Just how many lost opportunities can one city have?
General comment: I would be deeply embarrassed to live--hell even rent--in LV. The architecture is absolutely appalling, the "park" is a joke and the retail is pathetic!
The contrast between Freedville and LV couldn't be greater. And yet Freedville imo, rates a mere B for effort. LV, if you rate at all, an F.
Remember the Great Fire of Toronto c1904? Well I look forward to something like that wiping out LV in ... 2104?
People complain about the strip mall and i can't understand why, i live near the area and find myself there all the time doing things from renting movies at the blockbuster, buying miscellaneous items at the convenience store or grabbing a sandwich at the sandwich shop. To me its very convenient and valuable. There's also a bank across the street and not to mention the 24 hour dominion and LCBO. All within a stone's throw within each other! That to me says volumes about what the future demand for a cozy little neighbourhood like this will be.
Reading over your post again junctionist, can you clarify the beef you have with the "free surface level parking lot"?
What else would it be but a surface parking lot? And you say free as if that's a negative.