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Old Posted Aug 2, 2010, 6:39 PM
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Yup, theres two more towers filling up those parking lots, plus a couple new ugly parking garages that arent much better than parking lots.
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The only area of Greater Downtown Toronto that still has much surface parking is the far southeast corner. It's not that annoying, because it really isn't "in between" two+ areas you'd want to go.

If we can go back more than 20 years, I'd have to say the vast sea of surface parking from Front Street north to Wellington in places, and all the way to King Street along the western side. This was centred at about John Street. I've labelled it below.

Thankfully this is almost all gone thanks to development. And their parking is all underground.

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That Sundance Square parking lot landed ESPN during the next Superbowl.
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That Sundance Square parking lot landed ESPN during the next Superbowl.
LOL... I know, and as a native Dallasite, I find that annoying.

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BP Lands in Edmonton. What is currently on the block? A Boston Pizza, a couple lone buildings on the northside. What is next to it? Corona Station, on the edge of the warehouse district, right on Jasper Avenue. It's a big, lumpy, rock-plain concrete maze of a parking lot.
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Old Posted Jun 5, 2011, 11:39 PM
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All parking lots are obnoxious. The whole idea behind them is absurd - huge swaths of land or entire multistory buildings dedicated to storing a mere conveyance. It's akin to needing a whole separate building to store shoes and coats.
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It's akin to needing a whole separate building to store shoes and coats.
You dont have a girlfriend do you ?
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Eh, I'm hoping this gets covered up soon.
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Eh, I'm hoping this gets covered up soon.
The Ren Center or the parking lot?? I kid, I kid, yes having a giant parking lot at the waterfront just doesn't make any sense these days.
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Not in quite a while.
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With Downtown Detroit being a relative strong point in the city, the waterfront ought to have great potential. That lot looks like an excellent spot for, say, 1,000 moderate density condos, apartments, and townhouses (or a few thousand at fairly high density) built in phases, along with a little convenience retail and a couple restaurants. Particularly with another crosswalk at the blue roofed building. I'd guess that hazardous soils are an issue, but if they can get around it...
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With Downtown Detroit being a relative strong point in the city, the waterfront ought to have great potential. That lot looks like an excellent spot for, say, 1,000 moderate density condos, apartments, and townhouses (or a few thousand at fairly high density) built in phases, along with a little convenience retail and a couple restaurants. Particularly with another crosswalk at the blue roofed building. I'd guess that hazardous soils are an issue, but if they can get around it...
There was a big development that was going to be built there. There are some other big sites east of that parking lot that are just empty grass, and there were a few developments that were going to fill those in as well.

All the real estate problems killed them, but I can only imagine that when the economy picks they'll continue. Renovations (of old industrial buildings) in the area have actually continued.
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I'd be happy if it was just a riverfront park. The parking lot itself is pretty useless since it's a GM parking lot and there's like 10 or 20 parking garages that have more than enough space for however many workers work in the complex.


This is the other parking lot I was going to go on a lengthy rant about.



But it's really more the area I don't like. Your typical poorly planned suburban sprawl with 20 big box stores across the street from a mall.



All of these parking lots are sort of expected, but the newer one (top pic) has awkward entrances and really no proper flow of traffic. It's just a half-assed attempt to make money in a high traffic area. (I have to restrain myself very hard to go off in a rant about this area.)
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That's where the imaginary Cadillac Centre was supposed to go, right? Hopefully they do SOMETHING with that lot. Quicken Loans HQ maybe? Regardless, I think these surface lots are the most annoying ones in Detroit:


Dirt and gravel surface lots just a couple hundred yards from the dense core of downtown. It sounds like there are plans to develop something on some of this area, but in my opinion it can't happen soon enough.
The gravel and dirt parking lots help give Detroit that bombed out feeling.
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LOL... I know, and as a native Dallasite, I find that annoying.

Your icon is freaking me the F-out, I dread every time you post because of it.
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Hamilton Ontario. I find almost all of these parking lots annoying.

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Your icon is freaking me the F-out, I dread every time you post because of it.
Is this better?

I guess you've never seen the movie 'Freaked.'

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