Canadian Urban Canyons

[MonkeyRonin]

Alexander St.




https://www.francisgroup.ca/listings...exander-street

[J.OT13]

Now that Isa nice canyon! Rare to see this level of historic preservation.

[hipster duck]

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

That's a great development, although it's probably more than 20 years old at this point.

Turn of the century commercial streets in Canada are great, but they're a bit low slung, capping out at 2 or 3 stories. It's great to sensitively add three or four stories on top, blending in with the existing materials, while keeping the fine-grained, older fabric at street level. That street now looks much more urban without being overpowering.

Of course, these kinds of developments are expensive. It probably wouldn't pencil today, unless you built a very high-end development, and why would you? Investor condos for the ultra-rich tend to be in starchitect-designed skyscrapers rather than in midrises.

[MonctonRad]

Seeing all these masonry buildings in Vancouver, I can't help but think about the upcoming "big one."

[WhipperSnapper]

Selectively demo'ing a building in order to retain a 4 storey facade can't be cheap either or loans for a $400 million dollar build that will take at leadt 5 years to close.

I don't think these have to be high end. It's just the sales budget reflects the scale of the building. There's probably a little apprehension from locals to buy a mid rise floor unit on a main street in Toronto. They are busy, loud and, dusty. The heavy screeching CLRVs are still recent memories too.

The market in Toronto presents an opportunity for smaller scale development as there aren't enough buyers for multiple, competing 500 plus unit developments. The numerous starts in the last half year that weren't fast tracked with a CMHC mortgage are mostly 20 storeys or less

[SteelTown]

This area of downtown Hamilton is quickly filling up as a new urban canyon. This area will have a future LRT stop.


Source: Chris R. - https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/thread....32784/page-10

[MolsonExport]

great brick-clad Van canyons.

[Maldive]

Various types of canyons heading south on Yonge Street towards Bloor Street.


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