08-10-2023, 01:17 PM
Aw, yuck, so basically another suburb in the sky. I had ownership of a large condo unit in Toronto some years ago in the CityPlace area which was kind of between the Gardner/Bathurst/Spadina/the railroad tracks.
Same deal: a bunch of generic condo towers surrounding an ugly "park" in the middle and some little streets between everything. It was the most lifeless, sterile and dull place you could possibly live in despite it being downtown Toronto. For one, the buildings were utter garbage and quickly began falling apart (lots of horror stories about them online) but most of all the atmosphere was just...yuck. You could tell you weren't living somewhere authentic. It was just a dead, soulless little corporate development zone in the city that nobody truly wanted to live in and nobody ever ventured out to. It's 2023 and Canoe Landing Park is still basically just a big patch of grass for birds to shit on because it was not a comfortable place to live. Eventually, Torontonians described it as a ghetto and it still has that reputation.
The first proposal for this Kraus redevelopment wasn't much different but it did seem to have a bit more dynamism in the layout of things. Now it's basically looks like a cul-de-sac with skyscrapers around it. Though I guess due to the area this is in...it was doomed to suck no matter what. It's in an old light industrial area so anyone living there is basically going to only ever be in their condo or car, while driving to other places. These kind of large developments are almost always terrible.
Same deal: a bunch of generic condo towers surrounding an ugly "park" in the middle and some little streets between everything. It was the most lifeless, sterile and dull place you could possibly live in despite it being downtown Toronto. For one, the buildings were utter garbage and quickly began falling apart (lots of horror stories about them online) but most of all the atmosphere was just...yuck. You could tell you weren't living somewhere authentic. It was just a dead, soulless little corporate development zone in the city that nobody truly wanted to live in and nobody ever ventured out to. It's 2023 and Canoe Landing Park is still basically just a big patch of grass for birds to shit on because it was not a comfortable place to live. Eventually, Torontonians described it as a ghetto and it still has that reputation.
The first proposal for this Kraus redevelopment wasn't much different but it did seem to have a bit more dynamism in the layout of things. Now it's basically looks like a cul-de-sac with skyscrapers around it. Though I guess due to the area this is in...it was doomed to suck no matter what. It's in an old light industrial area so anyone living there is basically going to only ever be in their condo or car, while driving to other places. These kind of large developments are almost always terrible.