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Originally Posted by caltrane74
Looking at the Toronto picture above, the next storey in the saga will be, tearing down, or redeveloping buildings currently between 5 to 10 storeys into highrises over 50 floors. There is just no further room to build more towers downtown and the land available where they are permitted is shrinking. Buildings 1 to 5 storeys are almost a given they will be torn down and redeveloped as well.
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Originally Posted by MTLskyline
That's a pretty good situation to be in, but hopefully that doesn't mean demolishing too many older buildings. I was always a fan of Toronto's stock of old brick buildings.
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To me this means that going forward, as opposed to demolishing the 5-10 storey buildings between University and Yonge shown in the shot, the downtown CBD will need to start expanding to the north east and north west. There's no way tall buildings will completely take over the "old city" (St. Lawrence area/Corktown), so instead they should start moving to the empty lots and low rise buildings between Adelaide, Dundas, Yonge and Jarvis (
here). I would say the area bounded by Queen, College, University and Spadina, but the sheer number of Victorian bay-and-gables there pretty much protect the entire area from development.
To the north I can see the part of the city bounded by Yonge, Sherbourne, Wellesley and Bloor continue to develop more and more, especially up closer to Bloor (near X, Couture, Rogers Building, James Cooper Mansion, etc.),
here.
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