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Originally Posted by eastcoastal
The 27 storey tower is a bit of an abrupt streetwall. Almon's not very wide and it's quite a bit taller than what I would expect for a street that scale. Urban form-wise, I think the tower should have been located closer to the centre of the site... I can see that they're trying to shade the parking lot across the street rather than their own project, but I'd hope that eventually the Rona/Shoppers Drug Mart would go away and we'd want some nice midrise right at sidewalk's edge for most of the street.
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I don’t disagree but considering the RONA only got built a few years ago and seems to be doing very well, I don’t see it going anywhere anytime soon.