595 Strasburg Rd | 9 fl | U/C

[neonjoe]

This is definitely the right kind of infill in the right place. It ma not be pretty but it fills a much needed void. The area already has some density, and is well served by transit, plus the housing in this area isn’t home to the typical nimby folk.

[mastermind]

Anyone know what (if anything) goes on the large blank pieces of wall, that are above the last balcony and stick up higher than the main roof parapet wall?

[ac3r]

Probably nothing. I think it's just some attempt at ornamentation. Maybe they'll be a different colour but I can't see them doing anything else with it.

[dtkvictim]

Decorative "NOW RENTING" signs

[KevinL]

Exterior painting has begun.

[ac3r]

Once again: architects need to stop with that staggered facade effect. Good god it looks awful. It's like someone colour blind painted it and didn't realize they were putting different colours in random places.

I need to think of a term for this. The Tetris aesthetic, perhaps?

[bravado]

Once again: architects need to stop with that staggered facade effect. Good god it looks awful. It's like someone colour blind painted it and didn't realize they were putting different colours in random places.

I need to think of a term for this. The Tetris aesthetic, perhaps?

Post modern luxury dazzle camouflage

[ac3r]

Ich komme zu zerstöre sie mit meinem U-boot!

[clasher]

The actual dazzle painted building near H-W and the expressway looks way better.

[jwilliamson]

Why do they insist on painting everything grey? If they need to use 4 different colours, couldn't they at least choose some that aren't grey?

[bravado]

Why do they insist on painting everything grey? If they need to use 4 different colours, couldn't they at least choose some that aren't grey?

Because that would require taste and conviction

[ac3r]

It's the Dollarama quality post-modern attempt at brutalism. Or something. It's ugly that's for sure.

[checkingout]

It this building completed?
Have people started to move in?

[ZEBuilder]

Very little has changed since the last picture that KevinL had posted in late April, since then the wall that they had started to paint has been completed, they have also started a very small portion of the end wall on the far side of the building. The underground parking has the vast majority of the floor completed, except for a small area next to the building, the exterior walls on the bottom level of underground parking have also been completed, but no interior walls. 

There are now leasing signs up on the building, when looking at the website for the development the cheapest rent is just under 2000 dollars for a one bedroom apartment. On the developers website (Kingsley Management) it's stating occupancy in October, but at the current rate of construction that definitely isn't going to happen.

Website for the development: https://www.bloomingdalemews2.com/floorplans

[tomh009]

$2000/month for 1BR ... on Strasburg Rd? It seems to be the going rate downtown now, but surely this far away should be less expensive.