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50 Scollard is turning out nicely. Aqualuna is that waterfront showpiece UT has craved since the tv studio head office got built (although the layouts I've seen are furthest from masterpiece ) The King West, the one with the 1990s Miami/Scarface glass block facade doesn't look good at all.
When I landed in Halifax circa 1980, I was struck by the geographic similarities between peninsula Halifax and the peninsula downtown Vancouver sits on. They both have a big park at one end (Point Pleasant Park and Stanley Park) and there's even a suspension bridge in each; 2 in the case of Halifax.
It's very pleasing to see the changes in my hometown. High rises at Rosie and Young? Mid-rises on Gottingen? Still decades in the future, but one can now envision the day when the entire peninsula gets built out. It may take till ~2050 for it to start coming together though.
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It's very pleasing to see the changes in my hometown. High rises at Rosie and Young? Mid-rises on Gottingen? Still decades in the future, but one can now envision the day when the entire peninsula gets built out. It may take till ~2050 for it to start coming together though.
Halifax is kind of decentralized and has a lot of older originally pedestrian oriented urban fabric that became a bit too low density for much mixed use in the 20th century, so I feel like it's getting a big bang for the buck with infill. The infill does things like bringing back shops in old Victorian buildings or stitching together downtown with the universities and dockyard.
Increasingly it seems like the missing piece is transit. The city didn't really need anything in the 90's or 2000's but now is the time to plan LRT, streetcars, or something similar. There is sort of a BRT system but the amount of investment in it is tiny; during a time when the city adds 10k people the municipality builds just a few more blocks of bus lane.
Ookwemin Minising* | Waterfront Toronto l Park Open
*Ookwemin Minising, pronounced Oh-kway-min Min-nih-sing, is the new island's (created by the new Don River Valley) name meaning “place of the black cherry trees” in Anishinaabemowin/Ojibwemowin.
Many of the playground features, bike paths and trails of Biidaasige Park, located in the new 98 acre island of the $1.4 Billion Lower Don Lands Revitalization, opened this weekend revealing the stunning transformation of the formerly polluted industrial lands of the Portlands. Already lush from all the plantings crews have done the past few years, the new river valley, ponds and creeks now teaming with life.
The edge of the Keating Channel (the former 90 degree right turn of the Don River into the lake responsible for flooding issues) will be transformed once work begins on the new community planned for the new island.
Rendering of the future community on the new island which will have 9,000 residences, retail and (an already funded) 4.5 kilometre Art Trail with contempary art installations from around the world.
^ Really nice Toronto shots. Very nice transformation of this part of the city to make it attractive and enjoyable for its citizens. Thanks for sharing
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^ Really nice Toronto shots. Very nice transformation of this part of the city to make it attractive and enjoyable for its citizens. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for taking the time to comment. Appreciated.
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Yeah, it's really cool and something befitting an indigenous name. I wonder how it will hold up should all that high density be built. Look high maintenance from an ecological point of view and 30,000 or more people within 15 minutes means a lot will be seeking refuge from the concrete and glass. That's a long time to go and maybe never.
I bring this up as Toronto ( which is hardly alone in this matter) doesn't have a great track record in maintenance of visions built to at least 95%.
Ookwemin Minising* | Waterfront Toronto l Park Open
*Ookwemin Minising, pronounced Oh-kway-min Min-nih-sing, is the new island's (created by the new Don River Valley) name meaning “place of the black cherry trees” in Anishinaabemowin/Ojibwemowin.
Many of the playground features, bike paths and trails of Biidaasige Park, located in the new 98 acre island of the $1.4 Billion Lower Don Lands Revitalization, opened this weekend revealing the stunning transformation of the formerly polluted industrial lands of the Portlands. Already lush from all the plantings crews have done the past few years, the new river valley, ponds and creeks now teaming with life.
Rendering of the future community on the new island which will have 9,000 residences, retail and (an already funded) 4.5 kilometre Art Trail with contempary art installations from around the world.
This is more like road rather than building construction but here's a view of the Cogswell area in Halifax. The dirt-covered and grassy areas will be development parcels.
In the foreground there is a sewage treatment plant built by the city in the 2000's. Seems like a pretty big planning fail as it's now occupying a prominent site downtown. Back in those days there wasn't really a sense that this much development was coming or that high density buildings could be built there.
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