Downtown Update - Page 93

mattgrande · #**1841** Posted **Apr 1, 2013, 7:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by MeIsThomas

A.P. First Developments inc.

Anyone know who this is?

drpgq · #**1842** Posted **Apr 1, 2013, 7:27 PM**

Any one know what used to be on the parking lot beside the Sirloin Cellar building? And how long it has been a parking lot?

SteelTown · #**1843** Posted **Apr 1, 2013, 7:29 PM**

^ Used to be Zellers. I have a picture of it somewhere.

Beedok · #**1844** Posted **Apr 1, 2013, 8:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by matt602

Pretty certain that 36 story is gonna get chopped down by the time it gets constructed.

It will still be nice to get the parking lots under control, even if the end product doesn't make a big impact on the skyline.

Beedok · #**1845** Posted **Apr 1, 2013, 8:20 PM**

Well I've added it to my work in progress of downtown.

#**1846** Posted **Apr 1, 2013, 8:36 PM**

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Beedok · #**1847** Posted **Apr 1, 2013, 8:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by MeIsThomas

Don't hate me, but...April Fools! The proposal is fake.....

No one caught on even with my imaginary developer called A.P. First Developments inc.? (A.P. First = April First)

I hope I didn't get anyone's hopes up too much, lol.

Happy April Fools!

Great, now I have to reload that thing, which takes for ever and then hope it doesn't crash when I save the redo.

#**1848** Posted **Apr 1, 2013, 9:00 PM**

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mattgrande · #**1849** Posted **Apr 1, 2013, 9:26 PM**

Dang it... I even thought "AP First? That's a dumb name."

thistleclub · #**1850** Posted **Apr 1, 2013, 10:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by drpgq

Any one know what used to be on the parking lot beside the Sirloin Cellar building? And how long it has been a parking lot?

RIP Zellers, 1988.

Dr Awesomesauce · #**1851** Posted **Apr 2, 2013, 12:22 AM**

Here's a picture courtesy HPL (ca. 1950s?)

A more recent pic courtesy Lost Toronto (ca. early 1980s?)

I vaguely recall this Zellers. My mum used to drag us there Saturday mornings after going to the market and, of course, Eaton's basement. After that we'd stop in at Kresge's and Robinson's - it was a fate worse than death for a young child. Anyway, the facade was brick, terracotta and vitrolite: they just don't build 'em like that anymore.

You can see Grafton's/ Tip Top in both pics. That building went with the Zellers in the late 1980s. Shame, shame, shame.

Beedok · #**1852** Posted **Apr 2, 2013, 12:33 AM**

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Originally Posted by MeIsThomas

Sorry.

Once you finish making a building, select all of the faces and edges of it and make it a component. It merges all of the pieces into 1 so everything runs faster. (You can always right click on a component and click "explode" and it will separate the component back to the original separate pieces and then you can work on it again)

Well at least I got to learn that.

thistleclub · #**1853** Posted **Apr 2, 2013, 12:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by pEte fiSt iN Ur fAce

A more recent pic courtesy Lost Toronto (ca. early 1980s?)

Stumbled on this screengrab-calibre image of the late-period James North Zellers.

realcity · #**1854** Posted **Apr 2, 2013, 1:26 PM**

That corner will never look as good again,

Beedok · #**1855** Posted **Apr 2, 2013, 2:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by realcity

That corner will never look as good again,

I think it could look better very easily. A 4-7 story mid rise of decent quality would look much better there I think. The two floor zellers looks totally out of place in those pictures.

durandy · #**1856** Posted **Apr 3, 2013, 12:09 AM**

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Originally Posted by pEte fiSt iN Ur fAce

Here's a picture courtesy HPL (ca. 1950s?)

A more recent pic courtesy Lost Toronto (ca. early 1980s?)

I vaguely recall this Zellers. My mum used to drag us there Saturday mornings after going to the market and, of course, Eaton's basement. After that we'd stop in at Kresge's and Robinson's - it was a fate worse than death for a young child. Anyway, the facade was brick, terracotta and vitrolite: they just don't build 'em like that anymore.

You can see Grafton's/ Tip Top in both pics. That building went with the Zellers in the late 1980s. Shame, shame, shame.

is that first picture ever a heartbreaker.

drpgq · #**1857** Posted **Apr 3, 2013, 12:37 PM**

Thanks for the Zellers info. I knew there was something there as a kid, but I couldn't remember.

With regards to that corner, that's the site I always think about when the what would you do as a developer threads come up.