[zalf]

This is another round of "would the marginal cost of having made it less horrific sunk the project?". I'm inclined to think the answer is no. Surely it wouldn't be that expensive to put an ivy trellis on giant blank side of the parkade levels, or round up some Fine Arts students from U of M and hire them to paint a mural.

That big bleak wall will be the first thing anyone getting off at Osborne Station will see; the very cohort who might be considering living in those apartments.