Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 40, 50 fl | U/C

[TMKM94]

Is the Helipad beside the Station Park property out of service/relocated? I went to check out the progress of the area today and I'm pretty sure I saw the Helipad being used as a parking lot for the Construction workers vehicles.

[ac3r]

I saw a post on Reddit or somewhere saying that they've been flying out of YKF recently. No idea if that's true or not.

And yeah a McDonald's downtown would be cool. I don't even eat there but it's strange that downtown doesn't have any major chain restaurants besides a Subway and a upcoming Tim Hortons.

[Lebronj23]

‘potentially a very large project at Duke and Victoria (50 floors if I remember correctly)’

Oou please do tell us more. We are your friends, we won’t tell anyone

[ac3r]

Sorry, I typed that on a phone. I meant to write 40. I'm going by what taylorbb wrote in this thread. Spear Street reportedly purchased the property, who also own Blackberry Technology Park.

[taylortbb]

Sorry, I typed that on a phone. I meant to write 40. I'm going by what taylorbb wrote in this thread. Spear Street reportedly purchased the property, who also own Blackberry Technology Park.

Yeah, the purchase price means it'd have to be 40+ if it was residential. But office buildings are a whole different situation, especially if Google is renting them. They'll pay top dollar for premium space, so you don't have to go as dense to be viable. There's really no way to know what the plans are right now, and anything office will be dependent on companies returning to offices.

[neonjoe]

I saw a post on Reddit or somewhere saying that they've been flying out of YKF recently. No idea if that's true or not.

And yeah a McDonald's downtown would be cool. I don't even eat there but it's strange that downtown doesn't have any major chain restaurants besides a Subway and a upcoming Tim Hortons.

And not even 10 years ago there were two McDonalds downtown (almost) The Moore/King location + Market Square. An urban format location would probably do great downtown at some point in the future.

[tomh009]

And yeah a McDonald's downtown would be cool. I don't even eat there but it's strange that downtown doesn't have any major chain restaurants besides a Subway and a upcoming Tim Hortons.

And not even 10 years ago there were two McDonalds downtown (almost) The Moore/King location + Market Square. An urban format location would probably do great downtown at some point in the future.

An urban location would make the most sense, rather than trying to squeeze in a drive-through format somewhere downtown. Actually, there would be a perfect spot available right now, between Marche Leo's and Crafty Ramen!

[ac3r]

With the amount of people living, working, studying and just passing through downtown I think they'd pull in a lot of money. But I'm sure they have a whole lot of market research that determines whether or not an urban location is worth the cost of operating one that they take into consideration these days. Suburban ones do well because they can rely on vehicular traffic. But hell, I'm vegan so I don't eat there, but if their fries are vegan like they are in some EU countries, I'd indulge.

If they do actually still own that property, maybe they have plans to reopen it at some point. It would be a really, really successful spot in the coming years. There's Google right across the street, UW, Station Park and other condos as well as the transit hub coming soon. I can picture that being a busy location if there was one to open in say 4-5 years.

[tomh009]

Mostly vegetarian here (we do love our cheese still ...) but McD still not high on our personal destination list. But I would be happy to have one downtown nevertheless.

[ac3r]

It's not good! But sometimes you just want to eat some trash.

[WaterLouGehrig]

This is great development for the old neighbourhood.  Is this speculation " a project at Moore and King (where the old McDonald's is)" or is there a legitimate project moving forward on this?

A developer proposed this back in 2019 or so. I'm not sure whether or not any progress has been made on its development, however, but eventually someone is going to want to use that property.

This concept looks like it is from roughly 2015. Given the LRT, density at station park, 900 King, etc.. Do you think the site should be taller/denser now?

[jeffster]

I also thought I read over on Urban Toronto that the McDonalds plot was owned by Allied - possibly for potential future use by Google.

The Google Tower we've been chatting about folks. Coming closer to reality every day.

[neonjoe]

Thats quite interesting that the land isn't owned by McDonalds, unless they sold it to a developer when the price was right. McDonalds is well known to actually own much the real-estate that their free-standing restaurants sit on and they lease them to the franchisee. (At least in the US)
https://qz.com/965779/mcdonalds-isnt-rea...e-company/

[tomh009]

It is indeed owned by McDonalds Canada, as confirmed by the city's owner database.

[jeffster]

It is indeed owned by McDonalds Canada, as confirmed by the city's owner database.

Behold -- the McDonalds Tower! Free 6-pack of nuggets for anyone that can climb the 100 flights of stairs to the top.

Challenge accepted.