The Frisina website says they are a Residential/Commercial/Institutional developer. It also says they built Landmark Place. They are presently located on Hughson.
If Main St were a slower, friendlier street, we'd likely see a better design. As it is, though, nobody wants to sit outside at a cafe on Main [or Queen for that matter], so it's only natural that this is what we're being given.
The gap in the teeth is no more - how exciting! I have been anticipating forever as I'm close by. What a ton of good advancement in the past few weeks, making my head spin...
a bank branch? Crazy! This will be invisible to traffic coming up the hill. Once cars drive out of the parking lot they'll be routed into a right turning lane taking them into the labyrinth of Queen st S. It gets hardly any pedestrian traffic because Main is such a shitshow.
It only makes sense if the street is two-way or if they're counting on traffic coming north on Queen.
Great news but really weird choice. But on the bright side, the more serious businesses we get on Main (and I don't mean Zizzo's car wash), the more the case for two-way will be strengthened.
a bank branch? Crazy! This will be invisible to traffic coming up the hill. Once cars drive out of the parking lot they'll be routed into a right turning lane taking them into the labyrinth of Queen st S. It gets hardly any pedestrian traffic because Main is such a shitshow.
It only makes sense if the street is two-way or if they're counting on traffic coming north on Queen.
Great news but really weird choice. But on the bright side, the more serious businesses we get on Main (and I don't mean Zizzo's car wash), the more the case for two-way will be strengthened.
Unfortunatly this could also make a case against 2 way as people might say oh look main street is attracting business even though its one way!
I'll eat my shoe if Main goes two-way in the next 25 years.
Two-way proponents (such as myself) should start to aim a little lower and push for fewer lanes (2-3) with parking and a cycling lane. The two-way issue is far too explosive to even be broached by our too-lame City councillors and staff.
funny thing is there's already parking on stretches of Main - but the street is so bad that people don't use it. Too afraid to stop I think. I once parked at the meters at Main and Locke and both of them were practically rusted shut. Neither took my money.
I think if we first got rid of the green wave, then a bicycle lane, then two way might be more realistic.
But on the other hand with the Vranich and Mac developments and all the other business popping up on the street, it will be increasingly hard to discount the economic sense of making it two way. And if council is swayed by anything it's money.
Driving past today I noticed that the renderings have been removed, though the 235 Main West website still features the same image. Anyone have a project update?
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Last edited by thistleclub; May 10, 2013 at 12:54 AM.
wasn't there on Friday, and certainly caught my attention that I had to stop and get a few pics this morning.. Maybe I'm working too many night shifts and this has always been there, but..
I dunno..??
Thoughts? Is that an addition to the 3 floors from before?
finally!! I've been hoping for a height addition to this site. It's such a prominent 'gateway' to downtown location.
Thankfully it's not in Durand either. Although Kirkendall can be quite NIMBY too. But nobody is as bad as Durand.
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